The Preakness Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race held on Armed Forces Day which is also the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs (1+3⁄16 miles (1,900 m)) on dirt. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds (57 kg); fillies 121 pounds (55 kg). It is the second jewel of the Triple Crown, held two weeks after the Kentucky Derby and three weeks before the Belmont Stakes.
Watch champ Forte, scratched Derby AM, gallop this morning at at churchill.
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Forte a no go for the Preakness.
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Forte placed on 14-day Kentucky vet's list; will not be able to run in Preakness
Forte, the morning-line favorite for the Kentucky Derby who was scratched the morning of the race, was placed on a 14-day veterinarian’s list due to the scratch and, as a result, will be unable to start in the Preakness Stakes on May 21.
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Two Phil’s will skip the Preakness and wait for the Belmont.
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Two Phil's will skip Preakness Stakes
Two Phil’s, runner-up in the Kentucky Derby, will skip the Preakness, his trainer Larry Rivelli said Tuesday.
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Former Kentucky Derby favorite Forte, who was scratched just hours ahead of Saturday’s race at Churchill Downs, apparently failed a drug test in September.
While that wasn’t the reason for his scratch, it has yet to be adjudicated before New York regulators, The New York Times reported Tuesday night.
Per the report, Forte failed a drug test due to a substance used to relieve pain and reduce inflammation. The test came shortly after the horse won the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga Springs in New York in September. Forte kept competing, however, and won his next four races ahead of the Kentucky Derby.
The horse was the favorite to win at Churchill Downs, but was scratched just before the race due to a bruise in his right front hoof.
People in Forte’s camp tried to delay the proceedings again on Tuesday, per the report. New York racing officials are set to hear from Forte’s trainer, Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher, on Wednesday.
While that wasn’t the reason for his scratch, it has yet to be adjudicated before New York regulators, The New York Times reported Tuesday night.
Per the report, Forte failed a drug test due to a substance used to relieve pain and reduce inflammation. The test came shortly after the horse won the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga Springs in New York in September. Forte kept competing, however, and won his next four races ahead of the Kentucky Derby.
The horse was the favorite to win at Churchill Downs, but was scratched just before the race due to a bruise in his right front hoof.
People in Forte’s camp tried to delay the proceedings again on Tuesday, per the report. New York racing officials are set to hear from Forte’s trainer, Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher, on Wednesday.
Trainer Todd Pletcher suspended for Forte positive drug test.
NEW YORK -- Hall of Fame horse trainer Todd Pletcher has been suspended 10 days and fined as the result of a positive 2022 drug test involving Forte, who was scratched hours before the Kentucky Derby last weekend because of an injury.Forte was disqualified after winning the Hopeful Stakes on Sept. 5, 2022, at Saratoga in upstate New York for testing positive for meloxicam, according to a ruling posted Thursday on the New York State Gaming Commission website.
The drug is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory that is not legal in racing. Pletcher also was fined $1,000. Forte's owners, Mike Repole and Vincent Viola, forfeit first-place purse earnings of $165,000.
The ruling says Pletcher plans to appeal and a stay of the suspension has been granted, allowing him to work. However, the commission may terminate the stay if the hearing isn't completed within 90 days of the ruling.
Pletcher appeared before New York stewards Wednesday.
Forte was the early favorite for last weekend's Kentucky Derby, but was scratched by state officials hours before Saturday's race because of a bruised right front foot. The colt is on the Kentucky vets' list for 14 days, which means he won't be able to run in the Preakness on May 20.
After the Hopeful, Forte won the Breeders' Futurity and Breeders' Cup Juvenile and earned the Eclipse Award for 2-year-old champion. Pletcher won his eighth career Eclipse as the nation's top trainer.
Kentucky Derby winner Mage will run at the Preakness on May 20.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Kentucky Derby winner Mage will run in the 148th Preakness following an encouraging workout at Churchill Downs, his co-owner said.Mage galloped about 1½ miles at a brisk pace with exercise rider J.J. Delgado aboard on a cloudy but mild Friday morning at the track. Co-owner and bloodstock agent Ramiro Restrepo said the chestnut colt was "thriving" with good energy levels after his latest training session since winning the 149th Derby, paving the way for the horse to enter the Triple Crown's second jewel at Pimlico in Baltimore.
"He's had a magnificent week of training," Restrepo said with co-owner Chase Chamberlin, co-founder and racing director of partner CMNWLTH. "[Trainer] Gustavo Delgado [Jr.] was just really pleased and over the moon of how he's come back. He's shown all the positive signs. So, it's on to Baltimore and crab cakes, here we come."
Mage is coming off a one-length victory over Two Phil's in the Derby at 15-1 odds after charging into contention entering the stretch. The son of Good Magic and Puca by 2008 Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown earned a signature win after running second and fourth in the Florida Derby and Fountain of Youth, respectively. He didn't run as a 2-year-old but won his debut at Gulfstream by nearly four lengths.
Mage will run in the 1 3/16th mile Preakness on May 20, just two weeks after covering 1¼ miles in the Derby in 2:01.57. Restrepo said the horse has done everything he did before the Derby, with his recovery being monitored after his longest trip.
He will train again Saturday morning before being driven to Baltimore with another workout planned Monday. Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano, who won his first Derby in 16 attempts, will again have the mount.
"We've been just monitoring that situation with all the love that he's shown us on the racetrack," Restrepo added. "We're trying to bestow that upon him and give him the time to show us what's up and everything that he did prior to the Derby.
"It's continued all the way through, so that type of consistency merits a shot at the Preakness."
Preakness?
Baffert is sending 4 to Pimlico, led by National Treasure.
Four horses trained by Bob Baffert — National Treasure, Arabian Lion, Faiza and Havnameltdown — are set to fly to Pimlico Saturday after each worked Friday morning at Santa Anita.For National Treasure, who exits a fourth in the Santa Anita Derby (G1) on April 8, it will be on to next Saturday’s 148th Preakness Stakes going 1 3/16 miles. He drilled four furlongs on a track listed as fast in 47.4 seconds. Last Saturday, the Quality Road colt worked six furlongs in a sharp 1:11.2.
He had a hard work last week. Today was just a nice steady move,” Baffert said.
National Treasure is winless in four starts since winning his debut at Del Mar last September. Prior to the Santa Anita Derby, he was third in the Sham (G3) at Santa Anita on Jan. 8 and then was scratched as the morning-line favorite in the San Felipe (G2) on March 4 due to a bruised hoof.
“This is a horse we’ve always been high on,” Baffert said. “He lost some training time ahead of the Santa Anita Derby, but he’s been working well since. The Preakness distance shouldn’t be a problem.”
Baffert will be seeking a record eighth win in the Preakness with National Treasure. His most recent victory in the second jewel of the Triple Crown came in 2018 with Justify, who would sweep that year’s Triple Crown.
Arabian Lion was also under consideration for the Preakness, but Baffert said that as of Friday the plan was to run him in the $100,000 Sir Barton for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles. Arabian Lion’s work Friday came while hooking company with a horse trained by Mark Glatt. He was officially credited with a six-furlong move in 1:12.80.
Arabian Lion has made two starts as a 3-year-old. The Justify colt was fourth in the Robert B. Lewis (G2) on Feb. 4 and was most recently beaten just a half-length in the Lexington (G2) at Keeneland on April 15.
“Coming out of the turn in the Lexington it looked like he was going to be the winner,” Baffert said of Arabian Lion. “We’re going to give him one more chance going two turns. After this we’ll know more about him.”
Santa Anita Oaks (G2) winner Faiza is ticketed to next Friday’s Black-Eyed Susan (G2) going 1 1/8 miles. The Girvin filly, who has never been beaten in five starts, worked five furlongs in 1:00.4.
“She’s just a good horse that always does what she needs to do,” said her Hall of Fame trainer.
Baffert has won the Black-Eyed Susan three times with the last being in 2013 with Fiftyshadesofhay.
Havnameltdown will be coming off a nearly three-month layoff when he goes in next Saturday’s Chick Lang (G3) for 3-year-olds going six furlongs. He has not started since shipping to Riyadh where he ran second in the Saudi Derby (G3) on Feb. 25.
On Friday, Havnameltdown worked five furlongs in a bullet 59.60 seconds. Six days earlier the Uncaptured colt blitzed four furlongs here in a bullet 45.6 seconds.
“He worked nice. He went fast last time,” Baffert noted.
Prior to his trip to Saudi Arabia, Havnameltdown won a pair of Grade 3 stakes going seven furlongs: the San Vicente here on Jan. 29 and the Bob Hope at Del Mar last November.
