Triple Crown

Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens had help on his way back to Preakness

2013-05-18 11:24:00

If Gary Stevens becomes the oldest jockey to win the Preakness Stakes Saturday at Pimlico Race Course, the 50-year-old Hall of Famer will have Clark Masterson to thank. Masterson is the Bellevue, Wash.-based personal trainer who helped Stevens lose 25...

Orb is horse to beat and has made the rest of Preakness field an afterthought

2013-05-17 13:47:00

Shug McGaughey, the trainer for Kentucky Derby winner Orb, attributes his calm demeanor since that race to maturity. Had he made it to the Preakness with a Triple Crown chance at a younger age, the 64-year-old insists, the scene would have been...

Preakness-proven Baffert will send 'Govenor' out for an upset

2013-05-17 16:01:00

Bob Baffert strode into the Preakness stakes barn Friday morning, shouting toward Orb's trainer Shug McGaughey loud enough so all could hear. "OK, Shug, I'm here to take away that media spotlight for you," he said. Baffert, indeed, is one of the few...

Jockey Gary Stevens discovering his love of racing again

2013-05-17 14:03:00

Nearly a quarter century ago, Gary Stevens was an up-and-coming jockey in Southern California, hoping to make his mark on the sport, put a lot of money in the bank and move on to something else as quickly as possible. A conversation he had with one of...

Secretariat's Preakness run still looks brilliant on 40th anniversary

2013-05-16 18:15:00

Secretariat was a star but not yet a legend when his van rolled up to Pimlico Race Course in the second week of May 1973. The big red horse had taken off like a rocket ship to run down the field at the Kentucky Derby, winning in less than two minutes, a...

2013 Preakness Day entries and comments from Maryland Jockey Club

2013-05-17 04:52:00

May. 18, Post Time: 10:45AM Entries and comments provided by the Maryland Jockey Club First - Purse $55,000, AOC $25,000-$20,000, 3 yo's & up, One And One Sixteenth Miles Post, Horse, Jockey, Trainer, Odds 1 Aussi Austin, Rosario, R.Rodriguez, 3-1...

Terps Trio: Big Ten schedule, previously scheduled games, road trips

2013-05-17 09:42:00

Baltimore Sun reporters Don Markus and Jeff Barker and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports. Given the 2014 schedule announced Thursday by the Big Ten, how tough will Maryland’s road back...

As Orb gets set for Preakness, Bel Air's Mike Pons works the crowd

2013-05-17 09:06:00

Mike Pons has had a busy week. For starters, Pons, who owns Country Life Farm in Bel Air with his older brother, Josh, was responsible for finding tickets for 80 assorted family members, friends and clients to attend Saturday's 138th running of the...

Orb is the favorite in our media poll

2013-05-17 10:00:00

Maryland Jockey Club senior vice president for communications Mike Gathagan credentialed more than 1,600 media members for the 138th Preakness. We talked to a few of them to get their take on how Saturday's race might end up. Not surprisingly, they went...

Fun-loving Team O'Neill experiencing a 'different vibe' at this year's Preakness

2013-05-16 14:20:00

The one-liners never stop when you're around Team O'Neill. Sometimes all that's missing is a brick wall, a stool and a microphone stand. Take the other day, for instance. Jockey Kevin Krigger has Goldencents out for his regular morning gallop in...

Taking a look back at some predictions to see if I was right [Commentary]

2013-05-16 08:47:00

To paraphrase early Beat Generation fringe member and longtime UPI editor Lucien Carr, a good news story should "turn the reader on, or make them cry." Well, I'm not going to touch the first of those two, but, apparently, my last column did make some...

Deputed Testamony won the Preakness 30 years ago this week [Editorial]

2013-05-16 17:05:00

Harford County has had many big-time sports moments in its glorious history. Perhaps none were bigger, however, than the one that happened 30 years ago this week. That's when Harford County's own Deputed Testamony won the 1983 Preakness, bringing home...

Krigger would be the first black rider to win the Preakness since 1898, and will be just the seventh to run in it. He rides Goldencents, trained by last year's Derby and Preakness winner Doug O'Neill.

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Kentucky Derby winner Orb and a trainer catch some down time on May 17 at Pimlico Race Course stables. Orb will go for the second leg of the elusive Triple Crown this Saturday.

2013-05-17 13:33:44

D. Wayne Lukas talks to the media at Pimlico on Wednesday morning. The hall-of-fame trainer has had five Preakness winners, including his first Triple Crown win with Codex 33 years ago.

2013-05-17 10:34:00