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Secretariat's Preakness run still looks brilliant on 40th anniversary
Secretariat was a star but not yet a legend when his van rolled up to Pimlico Race Course in the second week of May 1973. The big red horse had taken off like a rocket ship to run down the field at the Kentucky Derby, winning in less than two minutes, a...Tags: Human Interest, Culture, Preakness Stakes, Triple Crown, Arts and Culture
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Derby winner Orb has gone from ordinary to extraordinary heading into Preakness
AP Sports WriterBALTIMORE (AP) — Growing up, Kentucky Derby winner Orb was just another horse who fit in with the crowd. Never caused problems. Never raised a ruckus. Never got sick or hurt while frolicking in the fields of Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., with his...Tags: Animal Kingdom (racehorse), Florida Derby (racehorse), FIFA World Cup, Preakness Stakes, Revolutionary (racehorse)
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Fun-loving Team O'Neill experiencing a 'different vibe' at this year's Preakness
The one-liners never stop when you're around Team O'Neill. Sometimes all that's missing is a brick wall, a stool and a microphone stand. Take the other day, for instance. Jockey Kevin Krigger has Goldencents out for his regular morning gallop in...Tags: Equestrian, Pimlico, Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Triple Crown
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Family's thoroughbred City of Weston to race Saturday at Pimlico in Baltimore
The City of Weston will debut on the national stage this weekend, but it won't be showing off its manicured lawns and lush landscape. Instead, people will see a 3-year-old racehorse sprint around the track at the Pimlico Racecourse in Baltimore before...
Tags: Equestrian, Pimlico
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Kentucky Derby winner Orb remains on target for the Preakness
Associated PressBALTIMORE (AP) — Kentucky Derby winner Orb remains on track for the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, when a win would set the stage for a Triple Crown try three weeks later in the Belmont Stakes. While a media frenzy is building around the Pimlico...Tags: John R. Velazquez, Departing (racehorse), Florida Derby (racehorse), Preakness Stakes, Triple Crown
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Kevin Krigger could ride into Preakness history as black jockey
The day after riding in the Kentucky Derby, Kevin Krigger packed his family and gear and headed for Pimlico Race Course — by way of Cincinnati. A woman there had captured his heart. She was Liliane Casey, 88, whose father, Jimmy Winkfield, was the...
Tags: Sports, Horse and Harness Racing, Preakness Stakes, Civil Rights, Laurel Park
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Orb Draws Inside Post In Preakness
Kentucky Derby winner Orb, ridden by red-hot jockey Joel Rosario, drew the No. 1 post for Saturday's Preakness and has been installed as the prohibitive even-money favorite for the $1 million, nine-horse race. Rose Napravnik, looking to become the...Tags: Departing (racehorse), Mylute (racehorse), Preakness Stakes, Equestrian, Shug McGaughey (racehorse)
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Legendary trainer D. Wayne Lukas likes Pimlico, and with good reason
D. Wayne Lukas, the Hall of Fame trainer, has started 37 horses in the Preakness. He expects to have three more — Will Take Charge, Oxbow and Titletown Five — go to the post Saturday for the 138th running of the middle jewel of the Triple...
Tags: Equestrian, Pimlico, Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Triple Crown
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Jockeying for position
Behind a door just off the paddock area of Pimlico Race Course, several jockeys are prepping for the day's races. They're handicapping the competition, comparing notes on horses and, in at least one case, going through a yoga sequence: reaching back to...
Tags: Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Preakness Stakes, Laurel Park, Triple Crown, Rosie Napravnik
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Turcotte cherishes 40th anniversary of Secretariat's Triple Crown
Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte is savoring the 40th anniversary of Secretariat's amazing Triple Crown performance in 1973, and why not? It was the ride of his life. "I had a wonderful career," Turcotte said on Tuesday. "I was the leading rider...
Tags: Preakness Stakes, Equestrian, Pimlico, Kentucky Derby, Secretariat (movie)
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Jockeys call for increased disability insurance
Jerry Bailey can look back on a Hall of Fame jockey career that featured 5,892 victories but also the searing memory of 17 fractures, including a broken back, jaw and collarbone, and several busted ribs. Yet Bailey considers himself lucky. He never...
Tags: John R. Velazquez, Preakness Stakes, Ramon A. Dominguez , West Virginia Mountaineers, Laurel Park
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Today in History
Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On May 19, 1943, in his second wartime address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country's...Tags: U.S. Congress, Justice System, Jean Dujardin, Politics, Preakness Stakes
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