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Epicenter made his final start of the year on December 26 in the newly created Gun Runner Stakes, an early prep race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby over 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles at Fair Grounds Race Course in Louisiana. He pressed the early pace while racing two wide, then moved to the lead at the top of the stretch and won by 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 lengths. [8]
The 2024 Preakness Stakes was the 149th Preakness Stakes, a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1 + 3 ⁄ 16 miles (9 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs; 1,911 metres). The race is one leg of the American Triple Crown and is held annually at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland .
The event is named in honor of Quick Call, the multiple graded stakes winning gelding who won more than half his 16 career victories at the Saratoga Race Course. [2] Quick Call was a dual winner of the GII Forego Handicap , lived to the age of 35 and is buried at Clare Court in Saratoga Springs .
On September 21, 2024, Seize the Grey, steered by Jaime Torres, won the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby by 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 lengths in a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles in 1:51.89 at Parx Racing. Seize the Grey started at odds of 4-1 as the third choice in the field of 11 3-year-olds.
In 2022 Goodnight Olive was undefeated in four starts. Coming off of a layoff of seven months, she won allowance/optional claiming sprints at Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course before being entered into the Grade I Ballerina Stakes, which she won by 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 lengths at odds of 5-1 under the lowest weight of 118 pounds. [6]
The Wise Dan Stakes is a Grade II American thoroughbred horse race for horses four-year-old and older run at a distance of one and one sixteenth of a mile on the turf held annually in June at Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky.
White Abarrio (born 18 March 2019) is a multiple Grade I winning American Thoroughbred racehorse. In 2022 he won the Florida Derby and competed against the best three-year-olds in the US.
Longshot Mr. Big News finished third with Honor A. P. closing late for fourth. The final time was 2:00.61. [22] [23] [24] The race gave trainer Bob Baffert his sixth win in the Kentucky Derby, tying the record set by Ben Jones from 1938 to 1952. Baffert gave credit for the win to jockey John Velazquez and assistant trainer Jimmy Barnes, who was ...