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With all of the heavy duty training completed, May 12 featured a routine morning of jogging and galloping around Laurel Park for those entrants on hand.

Although Golden Tempo is not pursuing the Triple Crown, his jockey Jose Ortiz will continue his quest to win all three races this season when he rides Chip Honcho in the $2 million Preakness Stakes May 16 at Laurel Park.

Preakness Stakes (G1) notes from Laurel Park

1/ST Racing will partner with Irish technology company Equine MediRecord and its group Business Infusions to digitize equine welfare protocols for Preakness 151.

2025 Elkhorn Stakes (G2T) winner Utah Beach remained in the Bluegrass State last May and repeated in the Louisville Stakes (G3T) at Churchill Downs. Now the latest Elkhorn winner from Keeneland, Burnham Square, attempts to follow suit.

Rose's Desert, the dam of Preakness Stakes (G1) entrant The Hell We Did, is the gift that keeps giving for the Peacock family, and those associated with her at Shawhan Place, near Paris, Ky.

Code, a half sister to grade 1 winner Locked, scored May 9 on the Gulfstream Park turf.

The Horse Racing Women's Association announces its 2026 conference will be held Oct. 12-14 in Lexington.

Little Miss Curlin, who was recently moved to the Steve Asmussen barn, takes on the $150,000 Miss Preakness Stakes (G3) May 15 at Laurel Park.

Quality extends beyond the trio of graded stakes May 15 at Laurel Park into a supporting cast of ungraded events.

Equineline releases a new version of its sales catalog app that includes a chatbot assistant.

Australian group 1 winner Lady Of Camelot may have run her final race after a stingray attack ruled her out of taking up her Royal Ascot targets. Her connections shelved all immediate plans after she sustained wounds to her near foreleg.

Dr. Dionne Benson and Cricket Goodall will each be honored with the Special Award of Merit May 14 at the Alibi Breakfast at Laurel Park.

The Kentucky Derby (G1) winner's total points increased in this week's National Thoroughbred Racing Association poll but the order of the top 10 remains unchanged from the previous week ahead of the May 16 Preakness Stakes (G1).

The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation will host its annual Fashionable Fillies Luncheon Aug. 10 at the iconic Hall of Springs in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

During the first quarter of 2026, racetracks operating under HISA rules report 0.95 racing-related equine fatalities per 1,000 starts, meaning that 99.9% of starts occurred without a fatality. 

Kirsten Rausing stands down from her chairman position at the International Thoroughbred Breeders' Federation general meeting. Lord Grimthorpe will take her position as she retires.

A schedule of 35 stakes races and handicaps worth more than $6.5 million, topped by the Colonial Downs Festival of Racing Aug. 1, is on tap when the Virginia racetrack opens its doors for a 45-day summer season June 25.

The latest Dollars & Sense with Frank Angst looks at how the 2027 season would be a good time to make changes to the Triple Crown, if so desired.

This is not your typical edition of the Preakness Stakes (G1). While the 2020 race, which was contested in October due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was unprecedented, the May 16 renewal has a number of unique elements tied to it.