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Mystik Dan managed second place at the Preakness Stakes, not quite good enough to continue a Triple Crown quest.

  No, we are not incorrect about the name of the winner of the 149th Preakness Stakes, but instead are simply reiterating the statement this thriving three-year-old made in the second leg of the Triple Crown series.   Seize The Grey executed a familiar game plan on May 18 in garnering the first grade 1 win of his career. Seizing the lead immediately out of the gate, The Grey led every step of the way in this mile and three sixteenths journey over the Maryland mud. Familiar is used her ...

Bob Baffert for a second consecutive year was a late arrival at the Preakness. He landed in Baltimore late in the day Thursday in the aftermath of his best horse being scratched because of a fever. Without Muth, Baffert has Imagination running to try to give him a record-extending ninth victory in the race. The two-time Triple Crown-winning trainer is still the center of attention at Pimlico Race Course, even when he doesn’t have the Kentucky Derby winner. Also making his first appearance at the track was Derby-winning trainer Kenny McPeek's yellow lab, Sonny.

  Preakness days in recent years have featured water and plumbing miscues. A large section of the grandstand at Pimlico Race Course has been rendered unusable because it’s condemned, and much of the rest of the storied but decaying

The home of the second jewel of horse racing's Triple Crown had become something of an eyesore, far from the glitzy palace of Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby.