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Preakness Stakes Still With Us ... But It's On Life Support

On Wednesday morning, the middle jewel of the Triple Crown was on a death watch -- and, thus, so was the Triple Crown itself. By noon, however, the patient, the 137-year-old Preakness Stakes, was revived and, barring yet another catastrophe, will be run on schedule in May 2011. The Preakness received, literally, a...

Zenyatta or Not, Horse Racing Faces Unstable Future

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The question never goes away, even at moments of the sport's greatest triumph and visibility. So it was asked again, this time of Zenyatta's trainer, two days before the latest super-horse shoots for career win No. 20 out of 20 tries in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs: How do you...

Hopes, Dreams Riding on Mine That Bird

NEW YORK -- Chip Woolley sometimes looks like he wants to dart out of a room as fast as he can. He fidgets with his welterweight-sized belt buckle, adjusts his 10-gallon black hat, scuffs his cowboy boats on the marble floor and nervously smoothes the mustache that frames his mouth like parentheses. Put the cowboy on the...

Rachel Alexandra Wins Preakness

The incredible filly Rachel Alexandra won the 134th running of the Preakness Stakes Saturday at Pimlico, becoming the first female horse to win the Preakness since 1924.Rachel Alexandra, who didn't enter the Kentucky Derby but won the Kentucky Oaks, entered the Preakness as the betting favorite and delivered just the way...

At Preakness, Stakes Highest for Jockeys

If you've paid close attention to Calvin Borel, like Tuesday night when he was a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, you've probably noticed that he doesn't have many teeth. America's favorite jockey has lost most of them over the years from falls, or from his face slamming into the back of horses' necks, or from...

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06/02/12 All sorts of circumstances foiled Triple Crown... Source: The Spokesman-Review - Spokane WA That's all that separated Real Quiet from racing immortality.
05/31/12 The Outside Circle: Wolves, bronc match, barrels... Source: Tri-State Livestock News - Sturgis SD Some friends took a drive through Wyoming's Big Horns last weekend.
05/25/12 Trainer for Preakness winner I'll Have Another... Source: Sentinel and Enterprise - Fitchburg MA Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Doug O'Neill has been suspended 45 days as a result of one of his horses exceeding the allowable limit for total carbon dioxide.
05/24/12 Preakness 2012 Results: Bob Baffert Foolish to Pull... Source: Bleacher Report If it weren't for two miracle, come-from-behind victories by I'll Have Another at this year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness, Bob Baffert's horse Bodemeister would right now be heading to Belmont with a Triple Crown to claim.
05/23/12 Sports Line: I'll Have Another recovering well after... Source: Maryland Gazette - Glen Burnie MD Triple Crown contender I'll Have Another is recovering well from Saturday's Preakness victory.

Background on preakness

The Preakness Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.

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