Preakness Stakes News

For most sports fans, the Preakness exists for one reason: to serve as a to-do list item for any potential Triple Crown winner.

Eight-tracks and tapes have come and gone, but many music lovers hold a special place for vinyl.

The second leg of the Triple Crown, run 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.

We're in the final stretch before the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

Listen to WBAL 1090 AM on Saturday for special traffic reports from the road with Jim Russ to help you get to the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes.

Trainer D. Wayne Lukas takes Will Take Charge to the track this morning May 17, 2013 the day before the second jewel of the Triple Crown for thoroughbreds which will be held at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, MD.

The consistent sprint stakes veteran Close It Out and the speedy stakes newcomer Wickersheim head the field for Saturday's $55,000 Champali Stakes at Calder Casino & Race Course.

Saturday's feature of the day is the Preakness Stakes. We took a long look at that , but there are a few races I like at Belmont Park and Monmouth Park as well that we can discuss.

Stuart Janney III's family missed owning Triple Crown champion Secretariat because of a coin flip and lost a Kentucky Derby winner by selling a broodmare before she gave birth.

Today, the eyes of the sports world turn to Maryland-Pimlico to be exact. The 138th Preakness Stakes highlights Preakness Saturday in Baltimore, as Orb seeks the second leg of the Triple Crown toward the end of a day featuring one of the city's biggest parties of the year: InfieldFest.

The Triple Crown is one of the most sought-after achievements in horse racing. It is an elusive, almost impossible feat that jockeys, trainers and owners all dream of accomplishing.

Odds-on favorite Last Gunfighter notched his sixth straight win by claiming Friday's $300,000 Pimlico Special at Pimlico Race Course.

A horse jogs on the track, left, as exercise rider Jennifer Patterson aboard Kentucky Derby winner Orb, center, walks off the track with trainer Shug McGaughey, right, following a light workout on the track in preparation for the 138th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on May 15, 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Preakness Stakes 2013 is going to held on May 18, 2013 at Pimlico Race Course, 5201 Park Heights Avenue,Baltimore, Maryland 21215.

Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider's homebred gelding, a four-time winner from five starts with a third-place finish in the Louisiana Derby , will break from post 4 under Brian Hernandez, Jr., in the May 18 Preakness Stakes .

The horses for the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes are listed in order of post position with comments by Joe Drape and Melissa Hoppert of The New York Times.

Joel Rosario brilliantly allowed him to settle more than 18 lengths back, and he rolled past his exhausted foes in another improved performance.

Call it the Triple Crown of horse-racing protests: PETA's mobile billboard , which gave Kentucky Derby attendees a stark reminder of the dark side of horse racing, is now headed to Baltimore for the second leg of the Triple Crown, where it will circle Pimlico Race Course all day on Friday and Saturday, the day of the Preakness Stakes.

Jockey Rosie Napravnik is seen aboard Mylute during the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Louisville, Ky.

Rosie Napravnik is looking to better her fifth place finish in the Kentucky Derby as she rides in the Preakness Stakes, the second jewel of the Triple Crown.