Preakness Stakes

Stakes are highest for Orb in Preakness

2013-05-18 05:00:00

BALTIMORE — Horse racing's Preakness is a place of history and a bubble of hope. If you come here with a Kentucky Derby victory under your belt, as trainer Shug McGaughey and Orb have, you have little time to appreciate that history. You are...

Preakness Stakes analysis and betting tips

2013-05-16 17:35:00

There are always lots of hard luck stories in the Kentucky Derby, and some of those hard luck horses come to the Preakness looking to set the record straight. Several of those guys are here to take on Orb. And a handful more Derby grumblers are skipping...

Preakness host Maryland's horse racing in optimistic state

2013-05-17 00:00:00

BALTIMORE — It is difficult to be at the Preakness this year without feeling a tinge of jealousy. That is especially true if you are just a few days removed from a visit to the current dungeon of California racing, a.k.a. Hollywood Park. All...

Watch batter celebrate home run ... that was caught for an out

2013-05-16 07:57:00

� OK, all of you who hit a game-tying homer in the ninth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, please take a step forward. Not so fast, Jun-Woo Jeon. Jeon, who plays for the Lotte Giants of the Korean Baseball Organization, was batting in the ninth...

David Garrard says he's 'calling it quits' on NFL career

2013-05-16 07:39:00

A sleeper pick by many New York Jets fans to become the team's starting quarterback next season was David Garrard. Looks like that isn't happening. NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported via Twitter on Wednesday that Garrard told two Jets players he no...

Orb will be on the inside for Preakness Stakes

2013-05-15 19:50:00

A few low, indecipherable noises escaped from the table where Shug McGaughey, trainer of even-money Preakness favorite Orb, sat during the post-position draw Wednesday. The horse had drawn the dreaded No. 1 gate, meaning eight horses will be closing him...

Marshals say Tiger Woods was told Sergio Garcia had hit in TPC

2013-05-15 18:08:00

Tiger Woods had been told by a volunteer marshal that Sergio Garcia had indeed played his shot at the second hole during the third round of the Players Championship on Saturday, according to new reports Wednesday. All the fuss about Woods being...

Orb draws No. 1 post for Preakness; will be a 1-1 favorite

2013-05-15 16:00:00

Kentucky Derby winner Orb drew the No. 1 post and was named the 1-1 morning line favorite for Saturday's Preakness at Pimlico Race Course. Orb trainer Shug McGaughey said he didn't think the rail position would affect his horse. "Not going to say I...

Orb trainer Shug McGaughey has Triple Crown reminders 'every day'

2013-05-15 16:35:00

BALTIMORE — Wednesday morning at Pimlico race track was similar to most mornings for Claude McGaughey III. Except there were lots of reporters around, which made it different. McGaughey is a thoroughbred horse trainer, currently the one in the...

Bird-flipping fan nowhere to be found at Heat-Bulls game

2013-05-15 17:00:00

Miami The closest thing to a bird at AmericanAirlines Arena on Wednesday was Miami Heat player Chris Andersen, nicknamed �“Birdman.” As for the Heat fan who gained notoriety for flipping the bird to a Chicago Bulls player, she was nowhere to...

Angels slow Ryan Madson's comeback; reliever will go to triple A

2013-05-15 17:30:00

Ryan Madson’s rehabilitation from Tommy John surgery was placed on a slower track Wednesday, the Angels scrapping plans to activate him this weekend in favor of sending the right-hander to triple-A Salt Lake for “a couple of weeks,”...

Orb wins the 139th Kentucky Derby

2013-05-04 18:50:00

LOUISVILLE, KY. — Claude R. “Shug” McGaughey is a man who looks like the embodiment of the nickname that is all anybody calls him by. Short and unassuming, he said this week he made an effort to enjoy the run-up to the Kentucky Derby,...

Krigger would be the first black rider to win the Preakness since 1898, and will be just the seventh to run in it. He rides Goldencents, trained by last year's Derby and Preakness winner Doug O'Neill.

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Their Preakness best

2013-05-17 15:06:00

Citation was named the 1948 Horse of the Year after becoming the eighth horse to win the Triple Crown, a feat that was next accomplished 25 years later. The bay colt won the Preakness by 5 1/2 lengths.

2013-05-17 09:14:08