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Weekend Lineup Presented By Pimlico: Preakness Headlines Busy Weekend In Maryland Sponsored by:
by NTRA | 05.14.2021 | 2:07pm
The 146th Grade 1 $1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Saturday, the second jewel of Thoroughbred racing s Triple Crown, will be run at 1 3/16 miles. The Preakness is the centerpiece of nine graded stakes races to be run at Old Hilltop on Friday and Saturday.
NBC Sports will broadcast the Preakness live, with coverage beginning Saturday at 5 p.m. ET on NBC. Coverage from Pimlico begins today at 5 p.m. ET on NBCSN with the 97th running of the Grade 2 George E. Mitchell Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, and continues Saturday at 2 p.m. ET on NBCSN. Over the two days, NBC Sports will cover nine races live.
Beautiful Gift, Moraz Square Off Over Oaks Points At Santa Anita Sponsored by:
Beautiful Gift winning the Santa Ysabel under John Velazquez
Separated by a head when last they met on March 7, Bob Baffert s Beautiful Gift and Michael McCarthy s Moraz will square off again as they head a field of five sophomore fillies in Saturday s Grade 2, $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks at a mile and one sixteenth.
In addition to first prize of $240,000, the Santa Anita Oaks winner will receive 100 Kentucky Oaks qualifying points, with 40, 20 and 10 points to the next three finishers. The Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks will be run on Friday, April 30 at Churchill Downs.
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Gamine sets a track record for seven furlongs (1:20.20) in the 2020 Breeders Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Keeneland.
Idle since winning the Grade 1 Breeders Cup Filly & Mare Sprint Nov. 7 at Keeneland, Bob Baffert s brilliant 4-year-old filly Gamine towers over her competition going six furlongs in Sunday s Grade 3, $100,000 Las Flores Stakes at Santa Anita.
Supplemented at a cost of $2,000, owner Michael Lund Petersen s Gamine will face three rival fillies and mares in what will be her first start at Santa Anita since she aired by 6 ¼ lengths in her 6 ½ furlong debut on March 7, 2020. A winner of both the Grade 1 Acorn Stakes going a one turn mile at Belmont Park on June 20 and the Grade 1 Test Stakes going seven furlongs at Saratoga Aug. 8, Gamine, who was purchased for $1.8 million at the Fasig Tipton Mid Atlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale in May, 2019, has four wins from six starts with earnings of $883,000.
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