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As the 2008 Kentucky Derby concludes with Big Brown winning the Run for the Roses, all focus now turn to Pimlico Race Course for the $1-million Preakness Stakes 133 on May 17.
This morning, horse trainer Richard Dutrow, Jr. informed Maryland Jockey Club officials that Big Brown, the impressive winner of yesterday’s Kentucky Derby, will be Baltimore bound for the middle jewel of the Triple Crown, the 2008 Preakness Stakes.
The son of Boundary will train at Churchill Downs for his Preakness preparations and is expected to arrive at Pimlico on Wednesday, May 14.
Big Brown is 4-0 in his brief career, winning by a total of 33 3/4 lengths. Can Big Brown sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes and give racing its first Triple Crown winner in 30 years?
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Almost reaching the record of 450 last year, 448 thoroughbreds, 446 of which are males and 2 fillies, were made eligible for the 2008 Triple Crown races: Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes when early nominations were released.
Four-time Eclipse Award winner Todd Pletcher led all trainers for the 5th year in a row with 31 nominees. Todd Pletcher ended a 0-for-28 run in Triple Crown races last year when his filly Rags to Riches won the Belmont Stakes. Among his promising 3-year-olds are Cowboy Cal and Monba.
Two-time Kentucky Derby winning trainer, Nick Zito nominated 19 3-year-olds for the Triple Crown races, including the undefeated War Pass.
The first leg of the Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby, will be held at Churchill Downs on May 3. The Preakness Stakes will be on May 17 at Pimlico Race Course. Belmont Stakes will be at Belmont Park on June 7.
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No Triple Crown winner yet again this year as Curlin steals the Preakness Stakes title from Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense on Saturday at the Pimlico Race Course.
After the defeat, Street Sense’s trainer Carl Nafzger has expressed disinterest in the Belmont Stakes on June 9.
“Right now, I don’t think we probably will,” Nafzger said Sunday. “There’s not really any reason to go there right now.”
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The contenders are in for the $1 million Preakness Stakes slated for Saturday, May 6 at Pimlico Race Course. Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense faces eight contenders for the second jewel of the Triple Crown.
Odds to win the Preakness from online racebook, All Horse Racing, favors Street Sense to go all the way to Belmont as favorite at 5-4. Next is Derby runner up Hard Spun with 5-2 odds. Then Curlin, 3rd finisher at Chruchill Downs, is at 7-2.
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All Horse Racing, the top online racebook, has released it odds to win the 2007 Preakness Stakes, slated for May 19 at Pimlico Race Course.
The world will be watching to see whether Cavil Borel and Street Sense can duplicate their win at the Kentucky Derby 133 and be one step closer to winning the Triple Crown.
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By GREG MELIKOV
All eyes will be on Street Sense vs. Hard Spun rivalry at the 2007 Preakness Stakes. Rivalries have added thrills galore to racing throughout the years, especially during the Triple Crown season.
Affirmed and Alydar battling in the 1978 Triple Crown season was especially electrifying as Affirmed edged Alydar in all three races to become the 11th and last TC champion.
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2006 Kentucky Derby winner, Barbaro, will be honored by Pimlico Race Course during the Preakness Stakes race day. The original plan six months ago was for the champion horse to return to Baltimore on Saturday for a triumphant walk on the track.
Pimlico officials renamed the Sir Barton stakes to Barbaro Stakes in December, they had hoped Barbaro would recover in time to help launch the inaugural of the race.
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Kentucky Derby 133 3rd finisher, Curlin, will have another go at Street Sense in the Preakness Stakes on May 19 at Pimlico Race Course, in a chance to stop the latter’s quest for a Triple Crown victory.
Trainer Steve Asmussen said Thursday that Curlin came out of the race in good shape and is set for the second leg of the Triple Crown on May 19.
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Kentucky Derby winner, Street Sense, could face up to 10 challengers in the coming 132nd Preakness Stakes, May 19 at Pimlico Race Course. The second race where it will be decided if there’s a possibility of a Triple Crown winner this year.
C P West, Chelokee and Sedgefield, fifth in the Derby already announced their intention to be included in the Preakness, which is limited to 14 starters.
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By GREG MELIKOV
Ulysses S. Grant was president, the U.S. population was 38,558,371 and there were 37 states when Pimlico Race Course opened in Baltimore.
In 1868, Maryland Gov. Oden Bowie and his friends, prominent racing figures, agreed at a dinner party in Saratoga to commemorate the evening with a race in two years for yearlings at the time.
Both Saratoga, the first U.S. track that debuted four years earlier, and the American Jockey Club bid for the event. But Bowie pledged to build a model track in Maryland if the race was staged there.
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