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Picks & Preview: Carolina Cup

For the 86th time, horses line up for the Carolina Cup. Later in the spring and after being cancelled last year, the indelible spring stop returns with a six-race card, including the reinvented version of the big one, the Carolina Cup. 

The Saturday Special – May 22

Two-thirds of the Triple Crown in the books, Memorial Day right around the corner and the country starting to reopen in full force sets the stage for a relatively light slate of racing here on the fourth Saturday in May.

Here & There – Preakness 2021

The Preakness Stakes returned to its traditional spot on the calendar – the third Saturday in May – and delivered a feel-good story amidst a dark cloud hanging over the result of the Kentucky Derby two weeks before.

Rombauer rolls to Preakness Stakes upset

Michael McCarthy greeted friends and colleagues walking from the owners’ boxes down the steps and onto the track Pimlico Race Course and summed up Saturday’s 146th Preakness Stakes with a question.

Radnor Picks & Preview

Welcome back to Radnor. The traditional Preakness Day fixture in Malvern Pa., celebrates its 90th anniversary with a six-race card.

Preakness Day stakes picks

The Preakness Stakes returns to its rightful spot on the calendar – the third Saturday in May as opposed to the first in October last year – for the 146th running that figures to be one for the history books this week at Pimlico Race Course.

Joe Clancy wins third David F. Woods Award

The morning was winding down, Joe Clancy finished his work for the Preakness Stakes pool reporting team and thought about hitting the exit at Pimlico Race Course to make the trek back home to northeast Maryland.

Black-Eyed Susan Day stakes picks

High drama always accompanies the Triple Crown season, we just didn’t expect anything like what transpired this week leading up to Maryland’s day on the big stage.