In this Chinese Year of the Fire Horse, horsewomen are not so much breaking through glass ceilings as setting fire to the barricades.
Joe Anzalone woke up Preakness Stakes Day feeling fresh and inspired, with all the credit to an early morning dream in the midst of some solid REM sleep.
Three days before the Preakness Stakes-G1, trainer Chad Summers considered the abundance of early speed among the 14-horse field and mapped out a trip for Napoleon Solo and jockey Paco Lopez.
The American dream can mean many things. Whether it is simply overcoming adversity or being privileged enough to watch your children grow up, receive good educations and find careers, everyone has an idea of what the phrase looks like.
Twenty-seven. . . Twenty-four. . . Eighteen. . . Six. And eight.
So, you're going to the Preakness, or watching the Preakness and you've got some questions. You're not alone. The biggest and most common question is pretty straightforward -- what will this year's Preakness look like?
Dave Rodman remembers being nervous. It was 1991, he was new to his job as the track announcer at Maryland's Laurel Park and 13 horses lined up for the $750,000 Budweiser Washington, D.C., International-G1.
The six lanes of Laurel Park's turf course carry the names of turf greats All Along (Fr), Bowl Game, Kelso, Dahlia, Exceller and Fort Marcy. But the Maryland track, opened in 1911, ranges even deeper into Thoroughbred racing history.
Delaware? Worthington? Dulaney? Shenandoah? Red River? You could spend all day trying to figure out the valley honored in the Thoroughbred racing stable name of owner Rocky Rashall and never get it right.
