BALTIMORE -- No Triple Crown winner this year, no first-female-jockey-to-win, no sunshine? No problem, said those who flocked to Pimlico Race Course on Saturday and waited out a mid-afternoon downpour to watch Oxbow leave behind Kentucky Derby ...
BALTIMORE -- They all said it would take something extraordinary to prevent an exceptional Kentucky Derby winner from marching through Pimlico Race Course toward a potential date with history.
To a man, the connections of the eight horses facing ...
BALTIMORE -- A pair of racing aficionados from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., spent Saturday watching the early races at Pimlico, then they put their observations to use to score a massive payday in the Preakness.
Joe Cavallo, 26, and Stephanie Rafferty...
BALTIMORE -- Gary Stevens caught the water bottle tossed his way, took one swig and threw it back.
"He don't want any?" a man asked, considering jockeys usually shower their horses, too.
Stevens shook his head from his perch atop Oxbow, the wire...
BALTIMORE -- He kept coming back, year after year, horse after horse, trying to get another victory in the Preakness Stakes before he was done. Going into the 138th running of the Triple Crown's middle leg, D. Wayne Lukas had tried eight times ...
BALTIMORE -- Whether it's a Sunday night football game or the third Saturday in May at Pimlico, when NBC Sports floods the zone with members of its A-Team, the telecast is almost always a winner.
That was again the case for the 138th Preakness ...