Kentucky Derby News

It was another disappointing Saturday for the sport of horse racing. Orb, the Kentucky Derby champion, never really challenged in the Preakness Stakes .

The 3-year-old colt will take on eight challengers in the second leg of the Triple Crown.

Preakness Stakes champ Oxbow has jumped into second-place behind Kentucky Derby winner Orb in the current NTRA 3-year-old Poll.

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Kentucky Derby hero Orb boarded a van bound for New York at 7 o'clock Sunday morning, showing no ill effects from Saturday's disappointing fourth-place finish in the Preakness.

Gary Stevens had been retired for 7 years. It seemed like D. Wayne Lukas had been retired for even longer.

The second leg of the Triple Crown, run just down the road in Baltimore as the Preakness Stakes, goes to post Saturday at 6:20 p.m . Coverage begins on NBC at 4:30 p.m. You don't have to be in your living room or at Pimlico Race Track to catch Orb trying to repeat his performance at the Kentucky Derby.

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Horse racing's wait for another Triple Crown winner, now at 35 years, continues.

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Calumet Farm's Oxbow gunned to the front from the gate in the $1 million Preakness Stakes May 18 and never looked back to post a 1 3/4-length victory at 15-1. With a surge through the stretch under Joe Talamo, 9-1 shot Open Water upset the field in the $150,000 Marjorie L. Everett Handicap for her first stakes victory May 18 at Betfair Hollywood ... (more)

The field for the Preakness Stakes is set and the race only hours away. The contenders have dwindled since the first weekend in May at .

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Oxbow, ridden by jockey Gary Stevens, wins the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore.

The trainer of Orb said he had experienced a variety of emotions during the week, and those mixed feelings remained as the race drew near.

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Orb's record-setting rider recognizes his role as the passenger part of the equine equation, and appreciates that a jockey's success is usually attributable to superior horseflesh.

Go down the list of Kentucky Derby-winning trainers the past three decades or so and you'll find at least one of nearly every kind: insiders, outliers, organization men and fast-buck artists, even guys in on a wing and a prayer.