Welcome to our 2021 Mid-Atlantic Triple Crown Trail page, where you can follow all of the Triple Crown action!
KENTUCKY DERBY – Medina Spirit
PREAKNESS STAKES – Rombauer
BELMONT STAKES – Essential Quality
LATEST NEWS
Bruno Mars to play Preakness Live
Bruno Mars, a 14-time Grammy Award winner, will headline the Preakness Live celebration 11 years after his first Preakness performance.
“The Foxes of Belair” excerpt: The Fox Comes Around
In this exclusive excerpt from “The Foxes of Belair,” author Jennifer Kelly tells the tale of Gallant Fox’s Preakness Stakes triumph.
PREAKNESS ENTRIES
- Simplification (6-1)
- Creative Minister (10-1)
- Fenwick (50-1)
- Secret Oath (9-2)
- Early Voting (7-2)
- Happy Jack (30-1)
- Armagnac (12-1)
- Epicenter (6-5)
- Skippylongstocking (20-1)
PREAKNESS NEWS
Sunny Ridge aims for G3 Gotham glory
New Jersey-bred Sunny Ridge has been installed as the second morning line choice for Saturday’s G3 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct.
Lightly raced Charmed Victory still heading upward
Charmed Victory may have come up short to Marengo Road in the Miracle Wood Stakes, but trainer Rodney Jenkins believes distance — and experience — will benefit his runner.
Midlantic-breds breeze for upcoming Crown preps
Two Midlantic-breds – NJ-bred Sunny Ridge and PA-bred Mor Spirit – breezed this weekend preparing for upcoming Triple Crown preps.
Trombetta, Marengo Road map Preakness path
Marengo Road’s pedigree and good-looking win in the Miracle Wood Stakes have trainer Mike Trombetta thinking about a spot in the Preakness.
Mor Spirit breeder: ‘This is why we’re in the game’
Horses like Pennsylvania-bred Mor Spirit – a top Kentucky Derby contender – are “why we’re in the game,” says his breeder, Stuart Grant.
Marengo Road holds on for Miracle Wood win
Marengo Road, from the racing operation of owner Harry Meyerhoff, who died last week, scored a solid win in Monday’s Miracle Wood Stakes at Laurel Park.
Homebred Sunny Ridge has deep roots for Drazin
In the first of our profiles of Midlantic-bred Triple Crown nominees: Sunny Ridge, the NJ-bred Withers winner whose main objective, says his owner, is at Monmouth.
NJ-bred Sunny Ridge earns Withers win
Sunny Ridge, a New Jersey-bred 3-year-old, gutted out a win in Saturday’s Withers Stakes and now is third on the Kentucky Derby points leaderboard.
16 Midlantic-breds nominated to Triple Crown
Sixteen Midlantic-bred horses — including 7 bred in Pennsylvania and five bred in Maryland — are among 368 early nominees to the Triple Crown.
