Outstanding 3YO Celestial Legend gave owner Bon Ho another G1 win and exciting 2YO Switzerland kept his unbeaten record intact and confirmed himself a serious Golden Slipper contender as Inglis graduates flexed their muscle on a big day of autumn racing. Celestial Legend (Dundeel) was the highlight act, winning the G1 Randwick Guineas for trainer...
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Seize the Grey wins Preakness for D. Wayne Lukas, ends Mystik Dan’s Triple Crown bid | TSN
BALTIMORE (AP) — D. Wayne Lukas worked his way to Seize the Grey after his horse won the Preakness Stakes and kept getting interrupted by well-wishes offering congratulations. “I think they’re trying to get rid of me,” Lukas said. “They probably want me to retire. I don’t think that’ll happen.” Not when the 88-year-old Hall...
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2024 Preakness date and time: When is the race, how to watch, odds, horses and weather
The 2024 Preakness Stakes (Saturday, May 18 on NBC/Peacock) will be the 149th running of the annual horse race in Baltimore. It’s the yearly second leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown pursuit. Mystik Dan will be running in this year’s Preakness after some doubt that he would run in the race due to the short...
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Everything you need to know about the horses running the Preakness on Saturday
Immediately following Mystik Dan’s win in Kentucky Derby 150, trainer Ken McPeek said he wasn’t sure he’d send the colt to run in the Preakness. His comment was met with widespread skepticism, and justifiably so: Last weekend, McPeek confirmed that his Derby winner would indeed contest the second leg of the Triple Crown. Two other...
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Who will win the 2024 Preakness? Picks including longshots from experts, enthusiasts and more
I grew up in a family that always had cats and that often went to the racetrack. I was in kindergarten when my father started teaching me to read past performances. Learning the data-based approach didn’t stop my mother and me from betting every horse that had “cat” or “kitty” or “kitten” in its name....
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Debate lingers over restoring the prestige of the Preakness | TSN
BALTIMORE (AP) — D. Wayne Lukas sat in his corner of the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course earlier this week and pointed several stalls down. “Thank God the Derby horse came,” Lukas said, referring to Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan running in the Preakness. “It isn’t always a cinch.” It used to be automatic, something that until recent years made...
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Switzerland’s Nemo tops Eurovision jury vote
Switzerland singer Nemo Mettler has topped the Eurovision Song Contest jury vote amid protests objecting to Israel’s competing. The non-binary singer, 24, in a pink skirt and fluffy jumper, balanced on a tipping metal disc as they sang their opera-dance blend The Code on Saturday evening at the Malmo Arena in Sweden. They came top...
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2024 Kentucky Derby best longshot picks: Six horses that have a chance to pay big
More than anything else, horse racing is about making money. More than the pomp, more than the hats, more than the fancy cocktails, the sport runs on gambling, and as we’ve seen, a longshot can make his way to the winner’s circle, causing exultation in those holding winning tickets and dejection in those who aren’t....
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West Saratoga is a Kentucky Derby long shot. But so was his trainer
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2024 Kentucky Derby, the 150th anniversary. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Larry Demeritte bends over and unwinds the wrap circling West Saratoga’s right rear leg. He does the same to the left and then scoots under the horse’s belly to help Donte Lowery, his assistant, with the animal’s front wraps....
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Owner of Bob Baffert-trained Arkansas Derby winner Muth appeals denial to run in the Kentucky Derby | TSN
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Zedan Racing Stables has appealed a Kentucky Circuit Court ruling that denied its request for a temporary injunction seeking to allow Bob Baffert-trained Arkansas Derby winner Muth to race in next month’s 150th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. The stable’s motion filed Friday with the Kentucky Court of Appeals comes a day after Jefferson Circuit Judge Mitch Perry denied the...
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Encino out of the 150th Kentucky Derby with leg issue. Epic Ride joins the 20-horse field | TSN
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Encino won’t run in the Kentucky Derby this weekend, trainer Brad Cox said Tuesday. The colt didn’t look right after morning training and was vanned to an equine hospital in Lexington. X-rays were negative but a soft tissue strain in his right front leg was diagnosed, Cox told the Daily Racing Form. “He galloped first thing...
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London Marathon 2024 results: Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner win wheelchair races
Meanwhile, Hug, who won the men’s race in Boston, had Romanchuk for company throughout the first half of the race in London. The pair appeared to have moved clear of the rest of the field but Weir and Japan’s Tomoki Suzuki reeled them in. However, Hug had enough left in the tank to drop his...