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
Midlantic flavor to Triple Crown nominations
The Triple Crown nominations released earlier this week include a half-dozen horses bred in the Mid-Atlantic and a larger number based here.
Notes from the weekend’s Kentucky Derby preps
Down went the champ, and up went some surprises during this past weekend’s four Kentucky Derby preps. Some thoughts…
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
Preakness: Kentucky Derby winner Authentic likely
Kentucky Derby winner Authentic is probable for the Preakness as long as everything goes to plan, and Tiz the Law remains a possible candidate.
Kentucky Derby: Authentic fends off Tiz the Law
Authentic went for the lead early and held them off late to win the 2020 Kentucky Derby.
Kentucky Derby latest odds and handicapping
What are the odds? No, really, what are they – the Kentucky Derby odds, that is. The latest odds and info.
Midlantic-breds on Kentucky Derby, Oaks days
Sharing headlines a group of several Midlantic-breds slated to compete on Kentucky Oaks day and Kentucky Derby day.
Opinion: Racing’s time for choosing
Protests, and the nation’s reckoning with race and racism, arrived at racing’s front door this week. The sport will need to make some choices.
Kentucky Derby: King Guillermo out, targets Preakness
King Guillermo, winner of the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby, was scratched from the Kentucky Derby Thursday after spiking a fever.
Kentucky Derby: Ny Traffic made most of Virginia sojourn
Long before he was a Kentucky Derby contender, Ny Traffic spent his formative months in a rural corner of Virginia, at Sunny Dell Farm.
No fans at Preakness 145
The 145th Preakness — like this year’s Belmont Stakes and Kentucky Derby — will be held without fans, the Stronach Group announced Wednesday.
Kentucky Derby horse-by-horse analysis
Tiz the Law crushed the Belmont and cruised in the Travers. Can he be stopped in the Kentucky Derby? John Piassek analyzes every horse in the field.
