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Seize the Grey wins the Preakness for D. Wayne Lukas and ends Mystik Dan’s Triple Crown bid

May. 18, 2024 23:20 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — D. Wayne Lukas worked his way to Seize the Grey after his horse won the Preakness Stakes and kept getting interrupted by well-wishers offering congratulations. “I think they’re trying to get rid of me,” Lukas said. “They probably want me to retire. I...

Forget the Triple Crown. Even the Derby-Preakness double has been too much to ask of late

May. 18, 2024 20:44 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Preakness has turned into a quite a spoiler lately on the road to the Triple Crown. Mystik Dan's 2 1/4-length defeat Saturday marked the sixth consecutive year the Kentucky Derby winner failed to win the Preakness. This time it was Seize the Grey and Hall of...

Bob Baffert is again the center of attention at the Preakness, even without the Derby winner

May. 17, 2024 14:48 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Bob Baffert does not need to bring the Kentucky Derby winner to the Preakness to become the center of attention at Pimlico Race Course. The two-time Triple Crown-winning Hall of Fame trainer is a magnet for attention as the sport's most-known figure, and he has...

Preakness: How to watch, the favorites and what to expect in the second leg of the Triple Crown

May. 17, 2024 11:35 AM EDT

The Preakness Stakes will have a Triple Crown possibility on the line when Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan runs in a field of eight horses on Saturday in the 149th rendition of the race. Mystik Dan is the favorite and won the Derby by a nose in the race's closest finish since 1947....

Mystik Dan looks like the horse to beat in the Preakness on what could be a muddy track

May. 17, 2024 11:06 AM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — His father was a mudder. His mother was a mudder. Yes, this horse loves the slop. No, Mystik Dan doesn’t need a sloppy track — or “Seinfeld” character Cosmo Kramer’s comedic endorsement — in the Preakness on Saturday because the Kentucky Derby winner...

Preakness is up next for Brian Hernandez after winning the Derby with a perfect trip on Mystik Dan

May. 16, 2024 16:12 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Brian Hernandez Jr. spent the leadup to the Kentucky Derby watching replays of winning rides by fellow jockeys to see what it would take to get the job done with Mystik Dan, particularly those of Hall of Famer Calvin Borel. The 2010 Derby Borel won with Super Saver...

Catching Freedom shows why it was an 'easy decision' to enter him in the Preakness

May. 16, 2024 14:49 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Catching Freedom got a few days off after finishing fourth in the Kentucky Derby. When he returned to the track, he looked like a fresh horse rather than one who had just run a race against elite competition. After some consideration, trainer Brad...

'Stepchild' of the Triple Crown? Debate lingers over restoring the prestige of the Preakness

May. 16, 2024 06:05 AM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — D. Wayne Lukas sat in his corner of the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course earlier this week and pointed several stalls down. “Thank God the Derby horse came,” Lukas said, referring to Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan running in the Preakness. “It isn’t...

Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan settles in at Pimlico ahead of the Preakness

May. 14, 2024 12:53 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Mystik Dan exerted so much energy winning the Kentucky Derby by a nose in the race's closest finish in 75 years that there was no guarantee his camp would send him to the Preakness to chase the second jewel of the Triple Crown. After a bit of rest, the decision was...

Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan is heading to the Preakness after all

May. 11, 2024 10:48 AM EDT

Mystik Dan, the horse who won the Kentucky Derby by a nose in the race’s closest finish in more than a half-century, is heading to the Preakness next weekend after all, keeping alive the chance of another Triple Crown winner. Trainer Kenny McPeek announced the decision Saturday...