Benefits of Time – More than 8 days after finishing second in the Kentucky Derby – Connections Journalism He decided he answered all the questions about his 150th preparation on Saturday Preakness Stakes On the Pimlico race course.
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Bridlewood Farm, Don Albert Stable, Robert Lapenta, Elaine Stable 5, Mrs. John Magnier, Michaelta Ball and Mrs. Delicious Miss drew on Monday evening, 8-5 morning favourites at Preakness Field of the nine cows. He spent Tuesday on a transport from Louisville to Pimlico, where he met trainer Michael McCarthy.
Aron Wellman, president of Eclipse Solrbred Partners and managing partner of ownership group, became a patient last week and said it was extremely important to evaluate Curlin Colt. After the decision was made to proceed to Preakness on Sunday, journalism took part in a race that brought together two other derby runners, Sandman and American promises, and six new shooters.
“From top to bottom, it’s a very competitive area that we’ve got a lot of respect,” Wellman said. “Really, our main focus is on journalism. We are very keen to make sure he is giving us all the right signs from the Kentucky Derby and he seems to have done it in every way in terms of his appetite, energy, his weight and his way of thinking. I am sure this is the right move for the horse, and I hope he will be very alive at Preakness on Saturday.”
Sent as a 3-1 favorite in the Kentucky Derby on May 3, he ran into some traffic issues early on, bringing him back on the field further than McCarthy had hoped for. Jockey Umberto Rispoli was able to move him into a competing position on his second turn. He took the lead early in the stretch, but lost in a stretch duel by sovereignty, finishing 1 1/2 length behind the winner.
Wellman laughed at the question about the number of calls he processed to match the decision he entered.
“The phone is busy, but it certainly is better than the alternative,” he said. “This is the time when you want to be busy and you don’t want to sit in your office and stare at the wall, wondering, what are you doing in your life?
A relaxing sandman with a new Pimlico dig
Although there was stable rain on Pimlico on Tuesday morning, Sandman became familiar with new excavations at the Preakness Stakes barn. The Kentucky Derby’s seventh finisher arrived at 3am in a 12-hour van from Louisville, Kentucky.
“He has a bath and looks happy walking around,” said Schoentrip, New York assistant at Mark Kasse, Hall of Fame trainer. “He was relaxed and there was some peppermint.”
Sandman was not asleep, but laying on the food stall, he stood up and looked around, taking it all in. Trip predicted that Sandman would sleep later that day.
DJ Stable, St. The grey colt, owned by EliasStable, West Point Sourbleds and CJ Stables, draws out Post 7 for Preakness, and is a 4-1 choice on the morning line behind journalism (8-5).
“I’m encouraged by the way he came back from the Kentucky Derby,” Tripp said. “He keeps his weight well.”
Tapit’s son has won three wins in his nine career starts. This year he won one with four tries and comes in the Arkansas Derby (G1) at Oak Lawn Park. He also finished second in the Southwest Stakes (G3) and third in the Rebel Stakes (G2). Both of these races were in Oak Lawn.
Trip is riding Sandman on his first trip to the Pimlico truck around 6am on Wednesday. Casse was scheduled to arrive in Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon.
Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez will be riding Sandman for the first time in Preakness.
Livertames enjoys a good week of training
River Thames delights Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher in preparation for Saturday’s 150th Preakness.
“He had a good week. He had a good wind in Belmont on Saturday and it was coming out nicely,” Pletcher said of the colt owned by Winstar Farm, ChC, Pantofel Stables and Wachtel Stable. “His energy levels are good. He comes to it a lot.”
The Thames River was withheld from the Kentucky Derby (G1) on May 3rd, and targeted the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown on Saturday. McLean’s music son finished second with the neck neck (G2) behind the sovereignty of the Derby winner and finished third, beaten three-quarters long at Keeneland’s April 8 Bluegrass (G1).
“The Reverthams will be shipped Wednesday and light training will be available on Thursday and Friday,” Pletcher said.
Irad Ortiz Jr. has a call on the Thames, ranked third on the morning line at 9-2.
Asmussen is happy with Post 8 again on Post 8
It was expected that smart would arrive again from Churchill Downs on Tuesday afternoon. After drawing Post 3 in all three career starts, the son of American Faroar, the winner of the 2015 Triple Crown, drew Post 8 in nine fields in his 150th Preakness Stakes (G1).
“I think it’s a very good draw,” Asmussen said over the phone from Louisville, Kentucky. “I like the two horses around him from the pace scenario.
Arkansas Derby (G1) winner Sandman was seventh in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and drew the 7-year-old post. Drawing the rails was 2-2 goal-oriented and led the whole time to win a 1 1/16 mile allowance race on the Kentucky Derby undercard on May 3rd. No. 3 American Promise also has speed.
Also, external posts allow Jockey Jose Ortiz to document atmospheric journalism.
“He’s a really nice horse,” Asmussen said. “He’s always been a very good actor. He’s very confident and feels good about who he is.”
With a bit of statistical oddity, the smart one broke forward again from the clever post 3, and headed towards the wire in two starts at Oak Lawn Park, a 1/16 mile maiden race this year, a $200,000 Hot Springs Stakes for two turn miles. He first started a 4 1/2 furlong at Keeneland in April of his 2 year-old season, going head-to-head with Philly Death away before breaking in front and missing on the wire.
Dreamway won the Colleen Stakes at Monmouth Park on the next start. The clever thing never raced again for ten months, but after his return he extended his speed all the way into the winner’s circle.
“We’re very excited about it,” Asmussen said of Preakness, the race he won with Carlin in 2007 and Rachel Alexandra in Philly in 2009.
Asmussen said he was in Baltimore on Friday. He has six other horses running in the Pimlico Stakes on Friday and Saturday. Darren Fleming, an assistant trainer who has been clever throughout the winter in Arkansas, oversees horse preparation in Maryland.
Buffer: The goal of trainees who are oriented towards “progress”
During his Hall of Fame career, trainer Bob Baffert made history with Preakness. He will try to make a little more when his 150th race takes place at Pimlico on Saturday.
Baffert owns most Preakness Wins records at 8.
If he can add to that total this weekend, he will cut another chapter into Preakness Archives.
Buffered-trained goal orientation only has two starts on your resume. This is unusual for horses running on the central gem of the triple crown. Two other horses in this year’s Preakness field – the clever again and the gosgar – have begun three times.
The first winner of Preakness, a horse named Survivor, made his start twice when he won the award in 1873. In recent years, Chad Brown’s training early voting (2022) and Cloud Computing (2017) began three careers before gaining Preakness. So was Bernardini, who won Preakness in his fourth start in 2006.
“We’ve always been very high for him and I always thought he was a good horse,” Baffert said. “And he’s undefeated!”
He is.
Owned by SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madakette Stable, Stone Street Stable, Diane Bashole, Decisive Stable, Robert E. Masterson, Tom J. Ryan, Wave’s Edge Capital and Catherine Donovan, the son of this era destroyed Meden on April 25th at Santa Anita. He then won a first-level allowance at Churchill Downs on a sloppy undercard track in the Kentucky Derby (G1), heading from the gate to the wire, winning three-quarters long.
“He’s a big, strong horse, but he’s still learning,” Baffert said. “His first out, he was behind the horse and didn’t really like kickbacks. We took him to Louisville, and he’s back.
Flavien Prat, who rode him in the second start, returns to Preakness. They start at the location of the railway post.
Baffert last won Preakness in 2023 alongside National Treasure. Last year, Baffert’s imagination finished seventh in Preakness. During his career, Baffert added 26 Preakness horses.
Buffart arrived in Baltimore on Monday. Goal orientation continued on Tuesday.
Colt aims to become the winner of the first European Preakness
The UK-based UAE Derby (G2) runner-up Heart of Honor will be the first European horse to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, but was featured on the Pimlico Surface on Tuesday morning under assistant trainer Jimmy McCarthy.
“He had a canter,” McCarthy said. “Well, I jog a mile, like you say, and I ran through a mile. We ‘canters.’ You’re a gallop. He stretched his legs out. ”
Trainer Jamie Osborne, an internationally renowned obstacle course during her riding career, was expected to fly on Tuesday, with Saffy, the daughter of a 23-year-old jockey, flying on Tuesday and on track on Wednesday morning, the trainer said in a text. Joining them on the flight were owners Jim and Claire Blythe.
Saffy Osborne made history last year when she became the first female jockey to win a race at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.
Almost Black Heart of Honor – A splash on the forehead that looks like someone who didn’t stay on the line completely can turn their minds into color, but they have pioneered quarantine at the Kentucky Import Center in Churchill Downs. He trained at Churchill on Monday morning, then van to Baltimore. He can train in a typical horse population, but the heart of the heart is isolated due to a visit to Maryland.
McCarthy reported that Heart of Honor was well shipped. “He’s fine so far,” he said. “Obviously he’s a bit edgy in different circumstances. He went to Churchill, spent a few days there and moved again. But overall, he does it pretty well.”
He said Heart of Honor will remain on the same schedule as Tuesday. As for how he appears to be handling the track, “You can’t know that until race time,” McCarthy said. “I’m not going to push buttons from time to time. I just exercise on him.”
Overnight and morning rain wetted the track, a new experience of Heart of Honor. He’s not on track in Dubai, McCarthy said. “To be honest, when it rained for a few days, they just shut the truck down,” he said. “There was hardly any rain this winter.”
Although born in the UK, Heart of Honor could have been as easy as Kentucky products. His dam, Chilean Mary Ruby’s love was raised by his late dad, Kentucky, and held hearts when it was sold for $90,000 at a November 2021 sale in Keeneland. Ruby Love went 3-3 in his hometown of Chile and was sent to the US. There were two offboard finishes from Maryland trainer Arnaud Delacour.
Heart of Honor is the son of Lane’s End Stallion Honor AP, the winner of the 2020 Santa Anita Derby (G1), who finished fourth in the Covid Delayed Kentucky Derby the following year. Honor AP is the son of the 2015 Old Mail Champion Honor Code, and himself the son of the 1992 Horse of the Year and Hall of Fame AP Indy. Honor AP’s dam is a multiple Grade 1 winner Hollywood Story. The female family includes songs from Hall of Fame Serena.
McCarthy said Osborne bought Heart of Honor and other horses with Dubai’s dirt race in mind. Colt started with a composite track in Southwell, England, and came in second place. His next five races took place in Dubai, past the dirt at Maidan racetrack, winning three seconds in a row at the Stakes Company. The final one was a sparkling stretch run in the United Arab Emirates Derby. He fell into his nose to praise Daytona.
Saffie Osborne is riding Heart of Honor in his third straight race at Preakness 1 3/16 miles.
Lucas: America’s promises are better than before the Derby
When discussing the field for Saturday’s 150th Preakness, Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lucas admitted that Journalism, the 8-5 favorite after finishing second in the Kentucky Derby on Tuesday morning, was the beat horse.
“Journalism jumps off the page,” Lucas said. “There’s no doubt about that.”
However, minutes later, 89-year-old Lucas argued that journalism was not a rock to beat Preakness.
“I think journalism will be beaten,” he said, providing some reasons.
“Well, I don’t know how he’ll bounce back in two weeks. That’s the first thing,” Lucas said. “It’s a different race. It’s nine heads. That means everyone probably shoots him. It’s clearly a different surface. It’s short. He might not fit too well.
Lukas went out to the Pimlico truck at 6am at 6am and went out to the Pimlico truck for a light morning exercise. After a tough trip, Justify Colt, who came in 16th in the Derby, drew three posts for Preakness, one food stall outside of journalism.
American Promise and three other men participated in the undercard race this weekend, arriving at Pimlico from Kentucky on Monday afternoon. They had a simple challenge on Tuesday, jogging a few miles through a sealed truck that Lucas said he said despite heavy rain overnight.
Lucas explained the issues that the American promised jockey had to deal with in the Derby. This began at the moment after Citizen Bull began a bored race. The American promise was affected by subsequent conflicts of chain reactions.
“He’s 17 hands and he can’t shut down and start again. That’s the problem. He can’t recover,” Lucas said. “Rider Nick Juarez, he quickly recovered from the first match from the gate, but he had him in the perfect position in the kitchen – as I’m calling it – he’s another eighth pole. He recovered.
The American promise was 38 1/2 length of the winner, sovereignty, and Lucas said there was everything to do with troubled travel.
“If you look at the Virginia Derby, he has a patent that comes out of that turn,” Lucas said. “He’s going to kick it. That’s what we were looking for, and he was set to do it, and Nick thought he’d get it until he was closed.
By the morning after the Derby, Lucas was looking forward to Preakness, a race he won seven times, including last year’s Seize The Grey. Lucas is cheerful about the chances of American promised preakness.
“I think he’s better this week than the week before the Derby,” he said. “If that helps us, I don’t know.”
After the early arrival, Gosgar “Calm down” at Pimlico
His grey court, suitable for rain and boring weather, Gosgar of Harvey A. Clark Racing Stable, was helmed inside a barn stall at the Pimlico Stakes on Tuesday after arriving early in the morning from Keeneland.
“He’s calmed down today,” said Rachel Wade, assistant to trainer Brendan Walsh.
Wade said Gosgar, the two-length winner of Lexington (G3) last month, arrived at Pimlico around 4am Tuesday, likely heading to the truck for the first time Wednesday in preparation for Saturday’s Preakness Stakes.
The lightly raced Nyquist son will only start his fourth career with a 1 3/16 mile Preakness, with Luis Saez going on board. He landed on the external post on No. 9 and was set up in the morning line in a 20-1 conflict.
Win and pay Billy for Gorham’s first prequeness
Rktn Racing’s automatic preakness qualifier Pay Billy arrived at the Pimlico race course before 1pm on Tuesday with trainer Mike Gorham in a 1 hour and 10 minute van on the wheels. Also included are Gorham’s assistant assistant and exercise rider Amy Hall, 3-year-old Philly Moon Cash and 3-year-old Colt Chipotle, who runs on Friday’s $300,000 George E. Mitchell Black Eyed Susan (G2) at Friday’s $300,000 Chick Lang.
“The trip was good, it was peaceful. There were no collisions on the road. We came here on time since we left,” Gorham said. “Billie, he’s pretty cool for the big horse. There’s nothing that bothers him. I really don’t worry about anything with him.
Gorham is scheduled to send Pay Billy and his stable to the truck around 6am on Wednesday.
“We trained this morning before we left. Everything went well. The track was really good because it didn’t rain early. They all got a good gallop on the track today. “We’ll see how the track is and decide what to do with them.”
According to Esterbable, who ran sixth as a favorite of 2019 Preakness for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, Pay Billy won his bass after winning the 1/8 mile Federico Tesio at Laurel Park on April 19th. Following Laurel’s private conditions on March 22nd, he has his fourth win and his second straight stakes in the past five starts.
Pay Billy will be the first starter in both Gorham and Jockey Raul Mena triple crown races. They will join Lexington (G3) winner Gosgar as the longest shot at Preakness Field 20-1 on the morning line, breaking out from the post-5 that has produced 13 winners since 1909 and most recently produced early voting in 2022.
