Posted 10:19 PM 5/25/2012

LOUISVILLE. (AP) - Churchill Downs says it will raise its overnight race purses by 10 percent starting Monday thanks to the financial windfall from a surge in betting during Kentucky Derby week.

The Louisville track said Friday that the prize money will rise on average by about $3,400 per (More)

Posted 4:44 PM 5/23/2012

NEW YORK (AP) - Triple Crown contender I'll Have Another returned to the track for the first time since winning the Preakness with a jog around Belmont Park's 1 1-2-mile oval Wednesday.

The colt arrived in New York on Sunday to begin preparations for the Belmont Stakes on June 9, when he (More)

Posted 10:39 PM 5/20/2012

NEW YORK (AP) - I'll Have Another will face several familiar foes in his attempt to win the Belmont Stakes and become the first Triple Crown champion in 34 years. Among the 3-year-olds trying to play spoiler in the June 9 Belmont are Dullahan and Union Rags, the third- and (More)

Posted 7:23 PM 5/20/2012

BALTIMORE (AP) - I'll Have Another poked his head out of his stall, started nibbling on his nameplate tacked to a wall and looked up at all the people watching his every move. Yes, I'll Have Another came out of his thrilling Preakness win over Bodemeister in "super shape," trainer (More)

Posted 9:19 PM 5/19/2012 by Kyle Scott

Much like The Kentucky Derby, I'll Have Another came from behind to beat Bodemeister in The Preakness Stakes.

I'll Have Another has a chance to accomplish something that hasn't been done since 1978 - win the Triple Crown. Affirmed was the last horse to win the Triple Crown more than 30 years ago.
The last leg of the Triple Crown, The Belmont Stakes, will take place on June 9 in New York.

(Photo: David J. Phillip / AP)

Posted 9:02 PM 5/17/2012

BALTIMORE (AP) - Preakness favorite Bodemeister isn't the only prominent 3-year-old Bob Baffert brought to Pimlico Race Course this week.

The Hall of Fame trainer is also looking for a victory Friday with unbeaten Mamma Kimbo in the Black-Eyed Susan, a Grade 2 race for 3-year-old (More)

Posted 3:06 PM 5/17/2012

Kentucky Derby (G1) winner I'll Have Another and morning-line favorite Bodemeister headline the seven Keeneland sales graduates entered for Saturday's $1 million Preakness (G1), the second leg of racing's Triple Crown.

Keeneland sales alumni have won four of the past five runnings of the (More)

Posted 9:38 PM 5/16/2012

LEXINGTON. (AP) - Kentucky's horse racing regulators were set to reconsider a proposal Wednesday to put the state that proclaims itself the "horse capital of the world" at the forefront of banning an anti-bleeding drug on race days.

The proposed regulation being presented to the Kentucky (More)

Posted 6:36 PM 5/16/2012

BALTIMORE (AP) - Bodemeister has been made the 8-5 morning line favorite for Saturday's Preakness. The colt trained by Bob Baffert set the pace in the Kentucky Derby before being overtaken in the stretch by I'll Have Another, who won by 1½ lengths. The Derby (More)

Posted 4:41 PM 5/16/2012

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas criticized the behavior of a few of his peers Wednesday, saying the actions of a few recent Kentucky Derby winners have tarnished the reputation of his profession.

Speaking at Pimlico Race Course, site of Saturday's Preakness, Lukas said, "I'm very (More)