The security guard was just doing her job, and roused several dozen owners, trainers and horsepeople assembled on the Pimlico Race Course turf course as the clock ticked toward post time for Saturday’s Preakness Stakes.
There are good days and then there are days like Friday for jockey Javier Castellano and veteran sire and multiple Horse of the Year Curlin.
Mike Trombetta commutes to his barn at Laurel Park or Fair Hill Training Center pretty much every day. It’s an hour either direction, so there’s plenty of time to think. About horses.
A near full field of 13 for the headlining 144th renewal of the Preakness Stakes and a bulked up undercard awaits fans and horseplayers Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. And better yet there doesn’t appear there will be any rain in the forecast, a welcome respite after last year’s soaker and another wet one two weeks ago at the Kentucky Derby.
As the Preakness takes center stage in flat racing, the Radnor Steeplechase offers a competitive six-race card for its traditional third Saturday of May rendition of racing for open space.
There’s horsepower, and then there’s horse power.
