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Oxbow shoots in for win at Preakness
AP Sports WriterBALTIMORE -- Right from the start, a horse trained by one not so over-the-hill Hall of Famer and ridden by another took control of the Preakness. The result: a huge upset and the end of any hopes for a Triple Crown attempt at the Belmont Stakes. Thanks...Tags: Pimlico Race Course, Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Joel Rosario, Rosie Napravnik
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Oxbow runs to Winner's Circle at Preakness
ReutersThe Sports Xchange Oxbow runs to Winner's Circle at Preakness There will not be a Triple Crown winner this year. Oxbow won the 138th Preakness Stakes on Saturday while Kentucky Derby winner Orb finished fourth in the field of nine horses. There has...Tags: Mylute (racehorse), Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Oxbow (racehorse), Will Take Charge (racehorse)
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Orb's Triple Crown bid ends at Preakness, which is won by Oxbow
Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, who at age 50 came out of retirement earlier this year, led Oxbow to a wire-to-wire victory in 1:57.54 and a big upset of Kentucky Derby winner Orb today in the 138th Preakness at Pimlico Race Course. Stevens is the...
Tags: Pimlico, Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, NBC (tv network), Rosie Napravnik
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On The Fly
We learn again that winning the Triple Crown is hard — maybe the hardest thing to do in all of sports. It's supposed to be hard; at stake is immortality, and the handful of horses that have done it live on forever in memory. Orb, though considered,...Tags: Toronto Blue Jays, National Basketball Association, Oxbow (racehorse), Utah Jazz, New Orleans Hornets
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Oxbow wins Preakness Stakes, Orb fourth
ReutersBALTIMORE (Reuters) - Oxbow, a 15-1 longshot ridden masterfully by 50-year-old Hall of Famer Gary Stevens, cruised to an easy, wire-to-wire victory in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, denying a Triple Crown bid for Kentucky Derby champion Orb. The D....Tags: Mylute (racehorse), Joel Rosario, Oxbow (racehorse), Will Take Charge (racehorse), Rosie Napravnik
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Upset win by Oxbow gives D. Wayne Lukas record 14th victory in Triple Crown race
He kept coming back, year after year, horse after horse, trying to get another victory in the Preakness Stakes before he was done. Going into the 138th running of the Triple Crown's middle leg, D. Wayne Lukas had tried eight times since Charismatic won at...
Tags: Pimlico Race Course, Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Triple Crown, Equestrian
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Oxbow wins Preakness, giving trainer Lukas a record but ending Orb's Triple Crown bid
AP Sports WriterBALTIMORE (AP) — Right from the start, a horse trained by one not so over-the-hill Hall of Famer and ridden by another took control of the Preakness. The result: a huge upset and the end of any hopes for a Triple Crown attempt at the Belmont Stakes....Tags: Govenor Charlie (racehorse), Florida Derby (racehorse), Human Interest, Pimlico Race Course, Preakness Stakes
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Secretariat's Preakness run still looks brilliant on 40th anniversary
Secretariat was a star but not yet a legend when his van rolled up to Pimlico Race Course in the second week of May 1973. The big red horse had taken off like a rocket ship to run down the field at the Kentucky Derby, winning in less than two minutes, a...Tags: Red Smith, Human Interest, Pimlico Race Course, Churchill Downs, Pimlico
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Horse racing-Orb faces Preakness hurdle en route to immortality
ReutersBy Steve Ginsburg BALTIMORE, May 17 (Reuters) - Shug McGaughey, the soft-spoken trainer of Kentucky Derby champion Orb, admits he thinks of what it would be like to saddle a Triple Crown champion. He knows it's premature to be thinking like that. He...Tags: Mylute (racehorse), Govenor Charlie (racehorse), Joel Rosario, Oxbow (racehorse), Rosie Napravnik
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Screening horses for ailments, doping ahead of Preakness a 'sophisticated' task
In a pair of low-slung green stables manned by security guards and watched by 24-hour surveillance cameras, a pack of brawny young horses will be monitored, poked and assessed down to the blood in their veins. The horses set to race in the 138th...
Tags: Laurel Park, Pimlico, Pimlico Race Course, Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby
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Legendary trainer D. Wayne Lukas likes Pimlico, and with good reason
D. Wayne Lukas, the Hall of Fame trainer, has started 37 horses in the Preakness. He expects to have three more — Will Take Charge, Oxbow and Titletown Five — go to the post Saturday for the 138th running of the middle jewel of the Triple...
Tags: Pimlico, Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Triple Crown, Equestrian
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Turcotte cherishes 40th anniversary of Secretariat's Triple Crown
Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte is savoring the 40th anniversary of Secretariat's amazing Triple Crown performance in 1973, and why not? It was the ride of his life. "I had a wonderful career," Turcotte said on Tuesday. "I was the leading rider...
Tags: Secretariat (movie) , Pimlico, Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby, ESPN (tv network)
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