Bob Hill – Handicapping

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

By Rick Francis —- PIMLICO Race 11), 1„ Mile. Black-Eyed Susan S. Grade II. Purse $250,000 FOR FILLIES, THREE-YEARS-OLD Post Time: ( 4:50)/ 3:50/ 2:50/ 1:50 Shimmering Aspen (1), winner of three straight facing lesser at Laurel; enters in solid form for major class-test....

By Ed Golden —- • • MANDELLA HAS EASTWOOD ON IMPROVE FOR KONA GOLD • • CHAMPION SONGBIRD IN BULLET BREEZE WITH SMITH UP • • FREE COOLER BACKPACK AT SANTA ANITA ON SATURDAY • • LONGTIME VALET BOBBY MARKUS PASSES AT AGE 77 • • WHAT A VIEW IS READY TO RUN ON ‘BEST TURF COURSE’...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- In recent years the horse that wins the Kentucky Derby usually has taken the Preakness, especially if you throw out last year when Nyquist was beaten by Exaggerator. Throw in another fact that only five non-Derby starters have...