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Steve Haskin reports on the Preakness post position draw, new arrivals, and I’ll Have Another. Sponsored by Three Chimneys Farm.

Grade 2 winners Casino Host and Smart Bid are top contenders in Saturday’s Grade
2, $300,000 Dixie Stakes, one of six stakes races on the Preakness undercard at Pimlico. The 1 1/8-mile affair will feature a field of 11 turf
horses.

A brief synopsis of today’s happenings in Thoroughbred Racing from brisnet.com.

Zazu was knocked out of Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic contention after
developing inflammation in her shoulder last fall, but has been given plenty of
time to recover and prepare for her four-year-old debut, which will finally come
in Saturday’s renamed

Marjorie L. Everett Handicap at Hollywood Park.

Bodemeister, runner-up in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), has been made the 8-5 morning line favorite for the Preakness Stakes (gr. I) May 19 and will break from post 7.

Barbara D. Livingston

Bodemeister, with trainer Bob Baffert at Pimlico, is the morning-line Preakness favorite.

BALTIMORE – He was second at the Kentucky Derby, but he will be the first choice at the Preakness Stakes. Despite being defeated as the favorite two weeks ago in the first leg of the Triple Crown, Bodemeister will be the favorite again on Saturday in the 137th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, in which he will try to deny the Derby winner, I’ll Have Another, from advancing to the June 9 Belmont Stakes with a chance to complete the Triple Crown.

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Reigning Eclipse Award Champion Hansen is expected to make his next start in the $400,000 Woody Stephens S. (G2) on Belmont Stakes Day, June 9…

Sum of the Parts gave his sire Speightstown his second stakes winner in three days with a hard-fought victory in the $100,000 Tom Ridge S…

Speightstown sired his third stakes winner in 10 days, when Sum of the Parts earned a hard-fought victory in the $100,000 Tom Ridge S…

Jon and Joel bring back Ray Paulick and Ed DeRosa for a mini-panel discussion on all things…

A trio of offspring by Unbridled’s Song will make their next start in consecutive stakes races on the May 18 card at Pimlico…

Cowtown Cat became the first Florida freshman to sire a winner when his two-year-old filly Richie’slilcowgirl scored a debut win in the first race at Arlington Park on May 11…

There’s so much confusion about exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) in articles, blogs, and SM today that I want to clarify some issues as they have appeared in recent posts in this space. For one, whenever possible I’ve defined a “bleeder” as a horse exhibiting epistaxis (bleeding through nostrils) when referring to studies quoted here from [...]

The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) has strict testing requirements in place for exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) in potential imports, but nevertheless would you believe that bleeders (defined here as those exhibiting epsitaxis, or bleeding through the nostrils) are more prevalent there than here? Part of the reason for this is that race-day Lasix or [...]

Hong Kong racing is frequently cited as a model for US racing to follow because race-day furosemide is not permitted and breakdown rates are among the lowest in the world. Joe Drape, the New York Times racing writer, once tweeted: “Not complex: In Hong Kong, over past 5 years, only 8 deaths among 45,000, 1 [...]

Kentucky Derby runner-up Bodemeister has been made morning-line favourite in the States to exact revenge on Churchill Downs conqueror I'll Have Another in Saturday's Preakness Stakes at Pimlico in Baltimore

THE battle to produce Channel 4's vastly expanded racing coverage over the next four years took on a dramatic soap opera twist on Wednesday.