Sam F. Davis Stakes runner-up on dirt won the Grade 2 Pilgrim on turf as a juvenile and was a Breeders' Cup participant on grass as well. Sire Quality Road was responsible for 2023 Preakness winner National Treasure, who added this year's Pegasus World Cup.
3-time stakes winner in sprint races was runner-up over a 1-turn mile in the Saudi Derby on February 24. He's less than 1 length from a perfect record in 6 starts. Distance will be the test for this son of top-class turf sprinter Bucchero.
Gulfstream debut sprint winner Dec. 30 by more than 5 lengths followed that up with an allowance runner-up Feb. 3 in a 1-turn mile as the heavy favorite. Son of Florida Derby champ Constitution, best known as a sire for 2020 Belmont winner Tiz the Law.
Two-time Gulfstream winter winner failed his first stakes test in the Sam F. Davis at Tampa Bay Downs when tiring to finish 11th at 4-1 odds. Sire Into Mischief has been responside for Kentucky Derby winners Authentic (2020) and Mandaloun (2021).
Los Alamitos Futurity beaten favorite and third-place finisher looks to make his 3-year-old return in Saturday's San Felipe at Santa Anita. Dominant mile maiden winner by more than 7 lengths at Del Mar in November. Sire Quality Road seeks back-to-back Preakness wins after last year's victor National Treasure, also trained by Baffert. PHOTO: Del Mar/Benoit
$1 million auction purchase finished third in his career debut in December at Aqueduct, and followed that up with a victory in Florida at Gulfstream Park in January despite traffic trouble throughout. Sire City of Light was a Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile & Pegasus World Cup winner.
Debut winner February 17 at Fair Grounds on the Risen Star Stakes Day undercard. Fast sprint winner is playing catch-up with the calendar, but has a classics pedigree. Sire Good Magic was responsible for '23 Kentucky Derby winner Mage, the Preakness 3rd-place finisher. Damsire Super Saver won the '10 Derby.
Turfway Park-based colt is a neck away from perfection through 3 starts, including a Leonatus Stakes win over 1 mile. He's back in action Saturday in the John Battaglia Memorial at TP. Son of 2010 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Blame. PHOTO: Turfway/Coady.
Champion 2-Year-Old and Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner of 2023, he opened his season with third-place finish as the heavy favorite in Gulfstream Park's Holy Bull Stakes. Sire City of Light was a Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile and Pegasus World Cup winner.
Florida-bred has won all 3 starts at Gulfstream Park, including a 9-1 upset of the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes over 2-year-old champion Fierceness et al. Trainer Joe Orseno orchestrated the 2000 Preakness upset of Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus with Red Bullet.
10-length maiden winner at Fair Grounds in January in his second lifetime start, he ran into traffic issues in the Risen Star Stakes when finishing a disappointing 7th in the follow-up. Sire Gun Runner is responsible for '22 Preakness winner Early Voting, and trainer Asmussen has won this race twice ('07, '09) in his Hall of Fame career.
Fourth-place finisher in Gulfstream Park's Mucho Macho Man and Holy Bull Stakes this winter. Began his career in Maryland and was a neck runner-up in Laurel's James F. Lewis Stakes, seeking a Preakness homecoming. Sire Enticed won the '18 Gotham and finished 14th in the Kentucky Derby.
Smashing 10-1/2 length debut winner at Churchill Downs in November, but his sophomore season has been slow to get underway, missing training time along the way. Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott has won the Derby & Belmont, but never the Preakness. Grandson of '06 Preakness winner Bernardini, this is a son of '16 Derby winner Nyquist, 3rd in the Preakness that year. PHOTO: Churchill Downs/Coady
Churchill Downs' Street Sense Stakes winner at age 2 rallied for third in the Grade 3 Southwest at Oaklawn in his sophomore return and targets the Arkansas Derby. Son of 2023 Hall of Fame inductee Arrogate, the '16 champion 3-year-old who rocketed to success after the Triple Crown series.
Won Keeneland's Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity before a third-place finish at Santa Anita in the Grade 1 Breeder's Cup Juvenile. Sire Gun Runner responsible for '22 Preakness winner Early Voting. Missed '24 return in early February due to fever.
Ineligible to race in the Kentucky Derby due to Churchill Downs' ban of trainer Bob Baffert. This $900K purchase as a 2yo debuted a romping winner Jan. 20 at Santa Anita and followed that up with a determined allowance victory when extending to a 1-mile distance. Baffert has won a record 8 Preakness editions.
Ineligible to race in the Kentucky Derby due to Churchill Downs' ban of trainer Bob Baffert. Winner of Santa Anita's American Pharoah and San Vicente Stakes was also runner-up in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile over that track. Baffert has won a record 8 Preakness editions.
Runner-up in Fair Grounds' Lecomte and third in the Gun Runner Stakes, this fleet colt has lost 3 straight as the favorite since a dominant, 10-1/4 length win at Churchill Downs in November. Sire Medaglia d'Oro won the '02 Travers and was 2nd in the Belmont after an 8th-place Preakness bid. He sired '09 Preakness-winning filly Rachel Alexandra.
Wire-to-wire winner of Tampa Bay Downs' Sam F. Davis Stakes and expected to have final Triple Crown prep in March's Tampa Bay Derby. Bred in Iowa, he's by Not This Time, sire of '22 Kentucky Derby and Preakness runner-up Epicenter.
Ineligible for the Kentucky Derby due to Churchill Downs' ban of trainer Bob Baffert, this colt won both starts last year by nearly 19 combined lengths. He romped 7-1/2 lengths in the Lewis at Santa Anita in February. Sire Nyquist was the '16 Kentucky Derby winner and 3rd in the Preakness. Baffert has won the Preakness a record 8 times.
Risen Star Stakes winner at Fair Grounds in his seasonal return, he's a nose away from perfection to date, losing a photo finish in Aqueduct's Remsen in November to Dornoch. Trainer Chad Brown won the '17 Preakness with Cloud Computing and in '22 with Early Voting (and finished 2nd last year).
Runner-up in Fair Grounds' Gun Runner Stakes, his missed some training time in late Jan/early Feb that sent him to Turfway Park in Kentucky to recalibrate his spring path. Son of '16 Derby winner Nyquist, third in that year's Preakness. His dam (mother) is full-sister to '06 Preakness winner Bernardini.
January 27 debut winner at Gulfstream Park will try to overcome inexperience with talent if he's to make a push to the Triple Crown. Son of Florida Derby winner Constitution, best known as a sire for 2020 Belmont winner Tiz the Law.
Red-hot Maryland local won the 1-mile Miracle Wood Stakes at Laurel Park in wire-to-wire fashion for his first career stakes victory. Maryland-bred was third in the Maryland Juvenile in December at Laurel, but has yet to start at Pimlico. Deputed Testamony in 1983 is the last MD-bred to win the Preakness.
Grade 1 Champagne winner at age 2 and the Grade 2 Rebel in his 3-year-old return, this maternal grandson of 2010 Preakness winner Lookin At Lucky has already topped $1 million in earnings. Expected to reappear in either Keeneland's Blue Grass or Oaklawn's Arkansas Derby.
Unbeaten through 2 starts, winning an Aqueduct maiden sprint and a Fair Grounds route allowance, defeating stakes-placed Nash in the latter. Sire Vino Rosso was the 2019 Breeders' Cup Classic winner and a son of 2007 Preakness winner Curlin.
Debut runner-up January 27 in a race identical to the one that last year's Kentucky Derby winner Mage won for the same trainer and similar owners. Like his sire Arrogate, getting a late jump on his career, but that 2023 Hall of Fame inductee wound up winning the 3YO title in 2016 despite missing the Triple Crown. Competes in the Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream while still a maiden.
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