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Abelina Kraus of Bel Air places the placard displaying "Always Dreaming" onto the fourth post position during the post position draw for the 142nd Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.

Always Dreaming has final workout, is primed for Saturday’s race

June 1, 2019 at 4:26 a.m.

Kentucky Derby champion Always Dreaming completed his preparations for the 142nd Preakness with a one-mile jog around the track Friday morning at Pimlico Race Course. Trainer Todd Pletcher wanted to...

Attention to detail has made trainer Pletcher a winner almost everywhere but the Preakness

June 30, 2019 at 3:00 a.m.

Todd Pletcher knows that the world regards him as some kind of horse training android. It doesn't matter that he fell in love with racing as a young boy in...

Always Dreaming made a 4-5 favorite for Saturday’s Preakness

June 30, 2019 at 10:32 p.m.

Kentucky Derby champion Always Dreaming will start the Preakness side by side with his chief rival, Classic Empire, setting up a potential duel for the ages. Neither horse's camp backed...

Shifting the Preakness from Pimlico to Laurel Park might not be such a long shot

June 30, 2019 at 6:21 a.m.

Imagine a crowd of 75,000 — not the record-setting 135,000 of last year — with patrons dressed in casual-chic clothing streaming into $1,000-a-head luxury suites. Imagine an empty infield, with...

Exercise rider Taylor Leatherman takes Preakness entrant Royal Mo for his first workout at Pimlico Race Course on Wednesday morning. The 142nd Preakness Stakes is May 20.

Royal Mo undergoes successful surgery on right ankle

June 4, 2018 at 8:34 p.m.

Injured Preakness contender Royal Mo underwent successful surgery Monday on his fractured right front ankle and is recuperating at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa., trainer John Shirreffs...

Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming walks with Salvador Villa at Pimlico Race Course on Tuesday. The 142nd Preakness Stakes is May 20.

Classic Empire ‘looked really awesome’ during workout for Preakness

June 4, 2018 at 8:32 p.m.

Classic Empire, perhaps the top rival to Always Dreaming in Saturday's Preakness, went to the track at Pimlico Race Course for the first time Tuesday morning. And the horse who...

Gunnevera’s team eyes another chance to chase down Always Dreaming

June 4, 2018 at 8:51 p.m.

The team behind seventh-place Derby finisher Gunnevera simply wants a clean shot to chase down Always Dreaming in the Preakness. Mud and a wide trip made it difficult for the...

Always Dreaming energetic in early morning workout at Pimlico

June 30, 2019 at 3:53 p.m.

For just a moment Monday morning, the old anxiety rose inside Todd Pletcher as he watched Kentucky Derby champion Always Dreaming bounce onto the track at Pimlico Race Course. As...

Five Preakness storylines to watch as Always Dreaming goes for another Triple Crown jewel

June 29, 2019 at 3:31 p.m.

Neither mud nor inexperience nor the ambitions of 19 other gifted and unpredictable thoroughbreds could keep yet another favorite from winning the 143rd Kentucky Derby. Always Dreaming did not quite...

Always Dreaming gets first gallop in at Pimlico early Thursday

June 30, 2019 at 8:47 a.m.

As Always Dreaming took his first gallop over the dirt at Pimlico Race Course on Thursday morning, trainer Todd Pletcher peered through a pair of binoculars, searching for any sign...

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