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The Preakness Stakes is a race for 3-year-old thoroughbred horses, contested each May at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. It is the second leg of horse racing's Triple Crown....

Trainer D. Wayne Lukas, his Preakness winner Oxbow, and the rest of his nine-horse contingent this week at Pimlico Race Course were on the highway before dawn May 19 heading back to the Hall of Fame conditioner's home base at Churchill Downs.

Calumet Farm's Skyring, winless in 11 starts since a victory at Pimlico Race Course last May, found the winner's circle again at the Maryland track in the $300,000 Longines Dixie Stakes.

The laws of probability say that at some point in time someone is bound to sweep Thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown.

Summer Applause ground her way to the lead in the stretch in the $148,500 Allaire DuPont Distaff Stakes Presented by Toyota, then held off Sea Island for a two-length win May 18 at Pimlico Race Course.

Running for the first time in 2013, Michael Dubb's Sage Valley earned his fourth straight victory in a row when he took the $150,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap at Pimlico Race Course May 18.

Benefiting from a quick start, Pianist set a fast pace en route to a gate-to-wire victory in the $150,000 Gallorette Handicap Presented by Kaiser Permanente on the May 18 Preakness Stakes undercard at Pimlico Race Course.

With the forecast calling for a high temperature of 70 degrees and a strong possibility of rain for the 138th Preakness Stakes, the Maryland Jockey Club could be hard-pressed to surpass last year's record crowd of 121,309 at Pimlico Race Course.

There doesn't appear to any reason to bet against Orb in Saturday's Preakness Stakes.

As Kentucky Derby winner Orb prepares to face eight rivals in Saturday's Preakness, Departing has been getting an increasing amount of publicity in recent days.

Odds-on choice Last Gunfighter collared pacesetter Eighttofasttocatch in the final furlong and drew off by 4 ¼ lengths for his sixth consecutive victory May 17 in the $300,000 Pimlico Special in Baltimore, Md.

Joel Rosario's remarkable run continued May 17 when he brought Fiftyshadesofhay from off the pace to win the $500,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.

Illinois Derby winner Departing got his first taste of Pimlico Race Course the morning of May 16 by galloping 1 .5 miles under exercise rider Trina Pasckvale.

Belmont Park is Orb's home track and the scene of probably his best work on Monday, but before he gets a chance to take down the Triple Crown he will have to conquer the Preakness.

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John Gunther's Last Gunfighter, who has won five in a row since his maiden victory last October, will invade Maryland and face mostly locally based horses in the $300,000 Pimlico Special at Pimlico Race Course May 17.