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Rombauer springs big Preakness upset, Medina Spirit third Preakness entrant Rombauer works out during a training session ahead of the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Baltimore. (Source: APAP Photo/Julio Cortez/AP) By Associated Press | May 15, 2021 at 4:04 PM EDT - Updated May 16 at 6:22 PM BALTIMORE (AP) — Rombauer left Medina Spirit behind — and put horse racing’s latest controversy on the back burner. Little-known Rombauer sprung a...

May 15, 2021 Mike McCarthys Rombauer trotted away victorious on Saturday after snagging first in 146th running of the Preakness Stakes.  The racehorse, ridden by Flavien Prat, finished just ahead of Midnight Bourbon at Pimlico Race Course, and subsequently ended Medina Spirit’s bid to become the 14th horse to win a Triple Crown. Midnight Bourbon and Medina Spirit finished second and third respectively. Attendance was capped at 10,000 fans whereas the Derby a few weeks ago held 51,838—the...

Preakness Notes: Fradkins Happy To Take Detour From Commercial Market With Rombauer Sponsored by: Rombauer at Pimlico race course on Friday morning At this time a year ago, Diane and John Fradkin were trying to figure out what to do with the 2-year-old homebred colt they would later name Rombauer. A couple of unexpected turns, six races and $290,500 in purse earnings later, the versatile son of Twirling Candy has brought the Santa Ana, Calif. couple to Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore...

Pedigree fun facts: 2021 Preakness Stakes May 14, 2021 Kellie Reilly/Brisnet.com Can American Pharoahs son Ram outperform his 30-1 odds in the Preakness? (Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club) Several Preakness S. (G1) contenders with strong pedigree ties to the middle jewel are longshots. Might that portend an upset brewing at Pimlico on Saturday? Triple Crown champion American Pharoah (2015) is trying to join the exclusive club of Preakness winners who have sired one, but it would be a massi...

Midnight Bourbon and Concert Tour are the biggest challengers in the Preakness to Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit

The first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown came with some controversy, but in the overall scheme of things it is not as big a deal as it might have seemed at first glance. The horse was not on anabolic steroids. His blood sample showed traces of a substance used to help decrease inflammation and mask pain, and it is actually a legal substance to use, although it is supposed to be out of the horse’s system before race day, so you do not have a positive test. It was a trace amount in a juri...

Pimlico Offers Wagering Smorgasbord For Black-Eyed Susan, Preakness Programs Sponsored by: th running of the $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) and Saturdays 146 th Preakness Stakes (G1), the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown. Preakness Weekend – the richest and most visible on the Maryland racing calendar which this year features 16 stakes, 10 graded, worth $3.25 million in purses over the two-day span – returns to its traditional spot in mid-May after being pushed back to early Octob...

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His Kentucky Derby victory may be hanging by the thread of a drug test in Kentucky. But Medina Spirit cleared one of three hurdles to get into Saturday’s Preakness Stakes. The first of his out-of-competition screenings came back clean. If the other two come back Friday just like that, he will race this weekend at Pimlico.

146th Preakness, the week in photos 1 of 23 France Go de Ina arrived at Pimlico Race Course Saturday night to prepare for the 146th running of the Preakness Stakes May 15. The Kentucky-bred colt, based in Japan with trainer Hideyuki Mori, will become the first horse from Japan to compete in the Preakness since Lani in 2016 and the first Japanese horse to compete in a Triple Crown race since Master Fencer ran in the 2019 Belmont. France Go de Ina, a chestnut colt by W...