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The Preakness Stakes as I see it… My Picks and Bets
Buzz On Gambling | 14 hours ago by Buzz B Berkeley
OK, Big Brown looks unbeatable right now. That makes our job much tougher. Why? Because he’s going off at odds at 1 - 2 or worse. So picking the winner might seem easy, but the odds make it unbettable because anything can and does happen in hor read more
Horseracing and My Whole New Approach - Science!
Buzz On Gambling | May 15th 2008 by Buzz B Berkeley
Are you a Form junkie? Do you pour over the past performances of each horse in each race to make your bets? That’s a lot of work! And that’s exactly how I’ve done it for 30+ years. But, I’ve learned a whole new approach to hor read more
Thursday at Pimlico
The Aspiring Horseplayer | May 15th 2008 by Kevin Stafford
Had a rather exciting Thursday morning today at Pimlico. I got to meet Tex Dulay and Cindy Pierson Dulay from horse-races.net. Great folks - they made me feel right at home even though I was totally overwhelmed at the spectacle before my eyes. read more
Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown a late arrival to Pimlico
statface | May 15th 2008 by Derrick
By DAN GELSTONBALTIMORE (AP) — Sure, Big Brown was a late arrival at the Preakness. No one will hold it against the Kentucky Derby winner if he's first to finish on Saturday.The colt who racing fans can't wait to see run in the middle jewel of the read more
Preakness Is Upon Us Again!
RANDOMONIUM | May 15th 2008 by Cayusa
Lock you doors, close the windows and hide! It is Preakness Week here in Maryland. It isn’t that I am not a fan of the actual race, because I am. I don’t have any issues with horse racing and having one of the top three horse races in read more
Let’s Meet the Preakness Contenders
The Aspiring Horseplayer | May 14th 2008 by Kevin Stafford
A field of 13 runners will compete on Saturday in the 133rd Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. The field is headlined by the Kentucky Derby winner and 3-year-old phenom Big Brown. Only one of his competitors in the Kentucky Derby, Gayego, h read more
HorseRacing Handicapping - A Little Free Help!
Buzz On Gambling | May 12th 2008 by Buzz B Berkeley
The Preakness Stakes will be contested at Pimlico Race Track in Baltimore, MD this Saturday, May 17th, 2008. As I reported, Recapturetheglory was removed from the race due to “Fever”. So, that left Big Brown to be the only Kentucky Derby read more
Harlem Rocker out; Gayego in (maybe)
The Aspiring Horseplayer | May 12th 2008 by Kevin Stafford
Just a quick update for today. The bulk of my Preakness posts will be coming later in the week as I attempt to attend the Alibi breakfast at Pimlico on Thursday, and then take in both the Black Eyed Susan and Preakness cards on Friday and Saturday. read more
Bee Bee Bee: The Invisible Preakness Winner
The Race is Not Always to the Swift | May 12th 2008
If you haven't visited the Sports Illustrated Vault (thanks to Jessica at Railbird for making me aware of it) and you are a student of horse racing history, you are really missing something.Here's one of the very few articles I could find on the upse read more
HorseRacing: 12 - 1 + 1 still equals 12 in The Preakness
Buzz On Gambling | May 11th 2008 by Buzz B Berkeley
Derby Trial winner Macho Again is in for Saturday’s 134th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. I predicted that Recapturetheglory was not talented enough to take on the Preakness, and it proved correct. Although, the connection read more
Casino Drive has arrived
The Aspiring Horseplayer | May 11th 2008 by Kevin Stafford
Big Brown may have defeated the group we thought were the best 3 year-olds in the country at the 2008 Kentucky Derby, but Saturday at Belmont Park a colt named Casino Drive proved there may still be hurdles left to climb with a resounding 5 3/4 lengt read more
A Dozen will meet in The Preakness Stakes
Buzz On Gambling | May 10th 2008 by Buzz B Berkeley
Hey Byrn, Icabad Crane and Riley Tucker were added to the list of starters for next Saturday’s Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. The Preakness field is now up to 12. Trained by Eddie Plesa, Hey Byrn won Gulfstream Park’s Grade III Holy Bull on read more
Icabad Crane in; Recapturetheglory out
The Aspiring Horseplayer | May 10th 2008 by Kevin Stafford
The challengers keep lining up. You can add Icabad Crane, the Graham Motion colt who last won the Frederico Tesio Stakes at Pimlico on April 19. On the down side you can scratch the fifth placed finishe from the Kentucky Derby, Recapturetheglory, read more
Hey Byrn is in
The Aspiring Horseplayer | May 10th 2008 by Kevin Stafford
Hey Byrn, a three year old son of Put it Back, has added his name to the Preakness field. You may remember him as a horse I liked a lot during the pod-cast I was on with the guys from the Sports Mafia. He was going against Big Brown that day and read more
When is a Big Win not so Big?
Buzz On Gambling | May 9th 2008 by Buzz B Berkeley
Consider this: Introduce a new, exotic bet that is so hard to hit that it carries over day after day after day, builds a huge pool, and therefore garners tons of publicity. It’s a no-brainer…. Great for the track, and great for the sport. read more
Preakness field grows; Curlin’s future still uncertain
The Aspiring Horseplayer | May 9th 2008 by Kevin Stafford
Ah, the weekend is finally here! The lyrics from a certain 80’s anthem keep repeating over and over again in my head: “Everybody’s working for the weekend!” When we last checked in, I was feeling a bit down on the Preakness read more
Preakness field starts to take shape
The Aspiring Horseplayer | May 7th 2008 by Kevin Stafford
It’s been a wild week since the Derby as the game continues to take a look at itself in the mirror and come to grips with some of the concerns of the general public. Quietly in the background, the forward procession of the Triple Crown contin read more
The Preakness Stakes - Second Jewel in HorseRacing’s Triple Cro…
Buzz On Gambling | May 6th 2008 by Buzz B Berkeley
At 6:15pm EDT on May 17th, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland at the Pimlico Race Track, history will be made. Big Brown (the Winner of the Kentucky Derby) WILL win The Preakness. Then, having won the first two jewels in the Triple Crown, Big Brown WILL go read more
Kentucky Derby - This one was Easy!
Buzz On Gambling | May 3rd 2008 by Buzz B Berkeley
Was there EVER any doubt? Yeah, there was… Just like always, as the start of the Kentucky Derby neared, I began to second-guess myself… but over the many years of this, I’ve learned to ignore those tugs, and stick with my research, read more
Table and chair to compete in Kentucky Derby
Wundurful Wurld | April 27th 2008 by Horatio Salt
WUNDURFULWURLD.COM-- On Saturday, the undefeated racehorse Big Brown will be the favorite in the Kentucky Derby, but he will be facing some rather unusual competition. This year, "The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports" will feature two read more
On Our Radar: Off to the Races
The Jet Set Girls | April 25th 2008 by Jet Set Girls
Admittedly, pulling off a trip to the Kentucky Derby at this late date is probably pretty hard to do, given it's now 8 days away and counting. If you love a good, stiff bourbon drink (and our friend over at the Liquid Muse has a recipe for a killer m read more
Ordered my Preakness tickets
The Aspiring Horseplayer | March 12th 2008 by Kevin Stafford
It’s safe to say I’ve already got Triple Crown fever. Apart from keeping a running tab on the top ranking 3 year olds in the country headed to the Kentucky Derby, the real day of the year that I wait anxiously for is the running of the read more
Curlin's Owners Jailed
SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated | August 11th 2007 by Mark
Preakness winner Curlin was a rags to riches story and one of the Triple Crown's more interesting stories this year. A lightly raced colt leading up to the Derby, he had been purchased originally by two Lexington, Kentucky lawyers who had made milli read more
Goodnight, Barbaro
Vintage Postcards: Old Antique Postcards | January 29th 2007 by pajamadeen
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningWhose woods these are I think I know,His house is in the village though.He will not see me stopping here,To watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queer,To stop without a farmhouse near,Bet read more
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