On Tuesday at Parx, the featured race is the $75,000 Valley Forge Stakes. The seven-furlong stakes race has attracted a field of ten colts and geldings.
David Jacobson will send out the morning line favorite, Tenango, at odds of 5-2. The four-year-old gelding has been on the board in five of his eight starts this year and has six career victories to his credit. He is going for his third consecutive victory after a pair of wins against optional claiming competition and has had a recorded workout since his last race. Frankie Pennington will be aboard and they will break from post four.
Second choice at 7-2 on the morning line is Bama Bound for trainer Ramon Preciado. Purchased for $120,000 as a yearling, the dark bay gelded son of Rock Hard Ten will be making his stakes debut and has seven wins from sixteen starts this year. He was last seen winning an optional claiming race at Parx by a nose and has five local victories total. J.D. Acosta, aboard last time out, will be back in the irons from post position eight.
Also in the field and a longshot at 12-1 on the morning line is Praetereo for trainer Michael Moore. A six-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway, he was third behind Bama Bound last time out after a stumble at the start compromised his chances. He has gone winless from ten starts this year but has five total career victories. Irad Ortiz, Jr. will be aboard and they are scheduled to break from post position five as Praetereo goes for his first stakes win.
The 2023 Preakness Stakes is coming up Saturday, May 20 at Pimlico! It is one of the most eagerly-awaited events of the racing year, and this is the place to […]
The Preakness Stakes is coming up on Saturday, May 15, 2021. The second jewel of the American Triple Crown drew a field of 10 top three-year-olds. Find out the top contenders in the race, and learn the best places to place your bets!
After all the drama of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, the racing scene shifts to Pimlico Race Course in anticipation of the running of the 2019 Preakness Stakes. A couple of the high-profile contenders from the Derby are expected in the field, as well as a number of new shooters that add to the handicapping puzzle and could provide good betting value.
The field has been established for the 2016 running of the Belmont Stakes and of the thirteen contenders, there are four horses who competed in the Preakness Stakes (G1) and are moving on to the third jewel of the Triple Crown.
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