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2021 Preakness Stakes
The 2021 Preakness Stakes was the 146th Preakness Stakes, a Graded stakes race, Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of miles (1.9 km). The race is one leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States), American Triple Crown and is held annually at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. The Preakness Stakes is traditionally held on the third Saturday in May, two weeks after the Kentucky Derby. The 2021 Preakness took place on May 15 with an actual start time of 6:54 p.m. Eastern Time Zone, EDT, with television coverage by NBC Sports, NBC. The race was won by Rombauer (horse), Rombauer. Background Due to effects from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Preakness Stakes, 2020 edition was run outside of its normal May schedule, contested as the final leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States), Triple Crown on October 3, without spectators. In late March 2021, organizers announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preakness Stakes
The Preakness Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race held on Armed Forces Day which is also the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs () on dirt. Colts and geldings carry ; fillies . It is the second jewel of the Triple Crown, held two weeks after the Kentucky Derby and three weeks before the Belmont Stakes. First run in 1873, the Preakness Stakes was named by a former Maryland governor after the colt who won the first Dinner Party Stakes at Pimlico. The race has been termed "The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans" because a blanket of Maryland's state flower is placed across the withers of the winning colt or filly. Attendance at the Preakness Stakes ranks second in North America among equestrian events, surpassed only by the Kentucky Derby. History Two years before the Kentucky Derby was run for the first time, Pimlico introduced its new stakes race for three-year-olds, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graded Stakes Race
A graded stakes race is a thoroughbred horse race in the United States that meets the criteria of the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA). A specific grade level (I, II, III or listed) is then assigned to the race, based on statistical analysis of the quality of the field in previous years, provided the race meets the minimum purse criteria for the grade in question. In Canada, a similar grading system is maintained by the Jockey Club of Canada. Graded stakes races are similar to Group races in Europe but the grading is more dynamic in North America. The grading system was designed in 1973 and first published in 1974. The original purpose of grading was to identify the most competitive races, which helps horsemen make comparisons of the relative quality of bloodstock for breeding and sales purposes. A high grading can also be used by racetracks to promote the race in question. When determining Eclipse Award winners, racing jour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Bourbon
Midnight Bourbon (January 25, 2018 – April 17, 2022) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2021 Lecomte Stakes and came second in the 2021 Preakness Stakes and Travers Stakes and 2022 Saudi Cup. Midnight Bourbon died suddenly from an "acute gastrointestinal situation" on April 17, 2022. Background Midnight Bourbon was a dark bay colt born in Kentucky. He was trained by Steve Asmussen and was ridden in his most recent start by jockey Paco Lopez. According to David Fiske the general manager of the horse's owner Ron Winchell's "Ron Winchell's Thoroughbreds" the horse's name came about as follows ..."It was pretty much a stream-of-consciousness thing” .... “Ron and his buddies do like to try out all the new ( bourbon) batches, and he also deals with a lot of liquor distributors. So liquor is in the forefront of his mind a lot, with business and pleasure. So it just came together.” The “Midnight” part of the name can be tied to the dam, Catch the Moon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas Derby
The Arkansas Derby is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held annually in April at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is currently a Grade I race run over a distance of 1 1/8 miles (9 furlongs) on dirt. In 2004, to celebrate its 100th anniversary, Oaklawn Park offered a $5 million bonus to any horse that could sweep its three-year-old graded stakes, the Rebel Stakes and the Arkansas Derby, and then take the Kentucky Derby. Smarty Jones's collected the bonus. The exposure from Smarty Jones subsequent run at the Triple Crown helped increase participation from the top three-year-olds in the country to the point where the American Graded Stakes Committee made the Arkansas Derby a Grade I race in 2010. Past winners of the race have gone on to win legs of horse racing's Grand Slam. Sunny's Halo won the 1983 Kentucky Derby, as did Smarty Jones in 2004 and American Pharoah in 2015. Elocutionist (1976), Tank's Prospect (1985), Pine Bluff (1992), Smarty J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essential Quality
Essential Quality (foaled April 9, 2018) is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2021 Belmont Stakes and Travers Stakes, and the 2020 Breeders' Cup Juvenile. He was named the 2020 Champion Two-Year-Old and the 2021 Champion Three-Year-Old. He won eight of his ten races, finishing in the top three in every race, with his only defeats being a third-place in the Kentucky Derby after a troubled trip and finishing only a length behind the winner, and a game third in the Breeders' Cup Classic. Background Essential Quality is a gray colt who was bred in Kentucky by Godolphin Stables, for which he races as a homebred. He is by leading sire Tapit, whose earlier crops had included five Breeders' Cup winners ( Stardom Bound, Tapizar, Tapitsfly, Hansen, and Untapable), and three Belmont Stakes winners (Tonalist, Creator, and Tapwrit). He is the second foal and first winner produced by Delightful Quality, a daughter of Elusive Quality and half-sister to champion filly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandaloun (horse)
Mandaloun (foaled March 18, 2018) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse who finished second behind Medina Spirit in the 2021 Kentucky Derby followed by winning both the Pegasus Stakes and Haskell Stakes. He also won the 2021 Risen Star Stakes, and the 2022 Louisiana Stakes. Background Mandaloun is a bay colt who was foaled in Kentucky. He is ridden by jockey Florent Geroux and trained by Brad H. Cox. The horse is named for a mandaloun, "a type of mullioned (or decorative partition) window from traditional Lebanese architecture". Racing career 2020: Two-year-old season Mandaloun made his first start in a maiden race on October 24th in Keeneland over 6 furlongs. He won this race by lengths in a time of 1:11.76. His second start was in an Allowance Optional Claiming, in Churchill Downs over 7 furlongs, on November 28, 2020. He won in a time of 1:23.15 by lengths. 2021: Three-year-old season Mandaloun made his first start as a three year old and his stakes debu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad H ("brads"), a ...
Brad may refer to: * Brad (given name), a masculine given name Places * Brad, Hunedoara, a city in Hunedoara County, Romania * Brad, a village in Berești-Bistrița Commune, Bacău County, Romania * Brad, a village in Filipeni, Bacău, Romania * Brad, a village in Negri, Bacău, Romania * Barad, Syria, also spelled "Brad", an ancient village Rivers * Brad (Crișul Alb), a tributary of the Crișul Alb in Hunedoara County, Romania * Brad (Suciu), a tributary of the Suciu in Maramureș County, Romania Other uses * Brad (band), American band * BRAD Insight, media directory * Brad, various types of nails * Brad, a brass fastener, a stationery item used for securing multiple sheets of paper together * Binary radians Binary may refer to: Science and technology Mathematics * Binary number, a representation of numbers using only two digits (0 and 1) * Binary function, a function that takes two arguments * Binary operation, a mathematical operation that ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLS-TV
WLS-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, airing programming from the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios on North State Street in the Chicago Loop, and its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower. History WENR-TV (1948–1953) The station first signed on the air on September 17, 1948, as WENR-TV. It was the third television station to sign on in the Chicago market behind WGN-TV (channel 9), which debuted six months earlier in April, and WBKB (channel 4), which changed from an experimental station to a commercial operation in September 1946. As one of the original ABC-owned stations on channel 7, it was the second station to begin operations after New York City, and before Detroit, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The station's original call letters were taken from co-owned radio station WENR (890 AM), which served as an affiliate of the ABC Radio Netw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. newspapers and broadcasters. The AP has earned 56 Pulitzer Prizes, including 34 for photography, since the award was established in 1917. It is also known for publishing the widely used '' AP Stylebook''. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters, English, Spanish, and Arabic. The AP operates 248 news bureaus in 99 countries. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative. As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betamethasone
Betamethasone is a steroid medication. It is used for a number of diseases including rheumatic disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus, skin diseases such as dermatitis and psoriasis, allergic conditions such as asthma and angioedema, preterm labor to speed the development of the baby's lungs, Crohn's disease, cancers such as leukemia, and along with fludrocortisone for adrenocortical insufficiency, among others. It can be taken by mouth, injected into a muscle, or applied to the skin, typically in cream, lotion, or liquid forms. Serious side effects include an increased risk of infection, muscle weakness, severe allergic reactions, and psychosis. Long-term use may cause adrenal insufficiency. Stopping the medication suddenly following long-term use may be dangerous. The cream commonly results in increased hair growth and skin irritation. Betamethasone belongs to the glucocorticoid class of medication. It is a stereoisomer of dexamethasone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Baffert
Robert A. Baffert (born January 13, 1953) is an American racehorse trainer who trained the 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah and 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify. Baffert's horses have won a record six Kentucky Derbies, seven Preakness Stakes, three Belmont Stakes, and three Kentucky Oaks. Early life and career Baffert grew up on a ranch in Nogales, Arizona, where his family raised cattle and chickens. When he was 10, his father purchased some Quarter Horses and he practiced racing them on a dirt track. In his teens, he worked as a jockey for $100 a day in informal Quarter Horse races on the outskirts of Nogales. From there, he moved to racing at recognized tracks, scoring his first victory at age 17 in 1970. Baffert graduated from the University of Arizona's Race Track Industry Program with a Bachelor of Science degree, got married, and began training quarter horses at a Prescott, Arizona farm. By age 20, he had developed a reputation as a trainer and was hired by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Kentucky Derby
The 2021 Kentucky Derby (officially, the 2021 Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve) was the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby. It took place on May 1, 2021, in Louisville, Kentucky. The field was open to 20 horses, who qualified for the race by earning points on the 2021 Road to the Kentucky Derby. The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of and has been run at Churchill Downs racetrack since its inception in 1875. The purse for 2021 was million. Medina Spirit crossed the finish line first, which appeared to have given his trainer Bob Baffert a record seventh win in the race and jockey John Velazquez his fourth Derby win. However, the horse tested positive for betamethasone after the race. The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission made the final decision to disqualify the horse on February 21, 2022. Because Medina Spirit was disqualified, Mandaloun was named the winner. The race was broadcast by NBC, with coverage by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
