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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...

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...

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’...

By Brian Bohl —- ELMONT, N.Y. – Phillips Racing Partnership’s Bellavais will look to capitalize on class relief and a cutback in distance as part of a talented field of eight 3-year-old fillies in Saturday’s fourth running of the $100,000 Soaring Softly at...