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
Trombetta takes Black-Eyed Susan aim with Call Another Play
Trainer Michael Trombetta will saddle as many as 13 horses this weekend at Pimlico, none in a bigger spot than Call Another Play in the Black-Eyed Susan.
Butch Reid: “Definitely special” to take Preakness swing
Trainer Butch Reid has runners in five Pimlico stakes this weekend, and the U-Maryland grad says it’s special to have his first Preakness starter.
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
Lukas: Fillies “go to the well for you”
Trainer D. Wayne Lukas, whose Triple Crown career began with a controversial win over a filly, will try to get a Preakness win with a filly in Secret Oath.
Podcast: Derby Bill talks Preakness
It’s Preakness time and we unleash our Off to the Races crew, Nick Hahn and Derby Bill Watson, to handicap the Black-Eyed Susan-Preakness double.
Locals set for big swing in Pimlico Special
Though a Grade 3, the Pimlico Special’s gaudy history makes it a major race, and several local trainers are set to try their luck.
In Maryland, a growing commitment to racehorse aftercare
In recent years, Maryland’s Thoroughbred industry has redoubled its aftercare efforts to care for runners after the Preakness cheers stop.
At Pimlico, painting the Preakness picture
In the days before the Preakness, Pimlico’s parking attendants, with 100 years experience between them, a painter, and others ready for the big day.
Greene “never dreamed something like” Luna Belle
Deborah Greene cracks up at the idea that she always knew that she’d own racehorses. How could you imagine one like Luna Belle?
Preakness longshot Fenwick “not up here joking”
Fenwick is — deservingly — the longest shot in the Preakness. But trainer Kevin McKathan says they didn’t come to Baltimore for the crabcakes.
Owners making big bet on Creative Minister
Recent allowance winner Creative Minister is taking the expensive route to the Preakness: via a supplemental nomination of $150,000.
Preakness horse-by-horse analysis
With the Kentucky Derby in the rearview mirror, we turn our attention to Pimlico and the Preakness with our horse-by-horse analysis.
