Preakness Stakes Day Selections: Races 8-14

By Bob Hill, TSV Staff Writer —- 8) JW Murphy Dover Cliffs – 4 – Could be developing into something special and has experience edge. Yoshida – 6 – Another on his way to being really great. Mo Maverick -1- after brief time off returns at distance he...
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Preakness Stakes Day Selections: Races 1-7

By Bob Hill, TSV Staff Writer —- The Preakness Day race card offers 14 races to play. My picks follow, including commentary on the stakes races. 1) 7-6-5-1 2) 2-10-6-4 3) 4-1-6-8 4) 5-2-3-4 5) The Very One Animal Appeal – 6 Englehart gets them ready off the bench...
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CHURCHILL HORSEMEN GIVE THEIR PREAKNESS STAKES PICKS

By Darren Rogers —- LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Friday, May 19, 2017) – The pageantry of the 142nd running of the $1.5 million Preakness Stakes (GI), the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown headlined by the Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming, will be featured prominently at Churchill...
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Shaman Ghost Grinds Out Xpressbet Pimlico Special (G3) Victory

By David Joseph —- Multiple G1-Winning Favorite Edges Stablemate Dolphus in $300,000 Stakes BALTIMORE – Stronach Stable’s multiple Grade 1 winner Shaman Ghost swept past rivals on the far outside and reeled in stubborn stablemate Dolphus in the final eighth of a mile to...
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Preakness $1,000,000 Guarantee Pick-5

By Matt Pappis —- PIMLICO Race 9) Grade III Maryland Sprint Whitmore (5): Coming into this 3rd off the layoff on a 4 race win streak and is much the one to beat. A.P. Indian (4): Ran like a horse that needed one last out getting run down by Awesome Slew in the Commonwealth,...
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Preakness Day features Guaranteed $2 million Pick 4

By David Joseph —- $1 million Pick 5 and $500,000 Pick 4 also on tap for Saturday’s Card BALTIMORE — Saturday’s Preakness Day card will feature multiple guaranteed pools, highlighted by a $2 million Pick 4 that encompasses four stakes — races 10-13 — and is anchored by the...
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Brown Seeks Fourth Stella Artois Gallorette (G3) with Elysea’s World

By David Joseph —- Irish-Bred Filly Tops Competitive Field of 10 in $150,000 Stakes BALTIMORE – Saturday’s 66th running of the $150,000 Stella Artois Gallorette (G3), Pimlico Race Course’s top stakes for older turf fillies and mares, drew a competitive field of 10 who will...
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Casse Barn Expects Big Effort from World Approval in Longines Dixie (G2)

By David Joseph —- 5-Year-Old Will be Joined By Stablemate Conquest Typhoon in $250,000 Turf Stakes BALTIMORE – The main objective this weekend at Pimlico Race Course for Team Casse is the $1.5 million Preakness Stakes (G1). But the stable will have ample opportunities to...
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Multiple G1 Winner A.P. Indian Targets $150,000 Maryland Sprint (G3)

By David Joseph —- Maryland-Based Eclipse Award Finalist to Make Local Debut in Six-Furlong Stakes BALTIMORE – Though he is based at the Fair Hill Training Center in Elkton, Md. near the border with Pennsylvania, circumstance and opportunity have kept A.P. Indian from...
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Formidable Shaman Ghost faces nine rivals in GIII Pimlico Special

TSV Staff Selections —- Stronach Stables 5-year-old son of Ghostzapper, Shaman Ghost, squares off against nine rivals in the running of the Grade 3 Pimlico Special Handicap run at a mile-and-three sixteenths; listed as the seventh race on the Black-Eyed Susan card,...
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