Triple Crown

There’s been a major shake-up to this weekend’s Preakness Stakes field.

Bob Baffert’s Muth is out of Saturday’s Triple Crown race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. At the post-position draw Monday, the horse had opened as the Preakness favorite.

Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan will start from the No. 4 post position for the Preakness.

The second leg of the Triple Crown is approaching. From the horses to the schedule, here is what you need to know for the 2024 Preakness Stakes.

No horse has won the Derby and Preakness since the last Triple Crown champion, Justify in 2018.

Mystik Dan is one-third of the way to a rare Triple Crown after a thrilling Kentucky Derby triumph.

Mystik Dan will travel to Saratoga, N.Y., before the horse’s ownership decides whether to enter him in the 1 3/16 mile Preakness.

The 150th Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday and won by Mystik Dan.

The Kentucky Derby will remain on NBC through 2032 after the network and Churchill Downs Inc. extended their contract through 2032. The deal was announced hours before the running of the 150th race on Saturday.

Anna Nicole Smith’s daugther Dannielynn Birkhead and her father Larry Birkhead were seen on Saturday gearing up for the 150th edition of the prestigious Kentucky Derby.

Larry Demeritte has run horses on Kentucky Derby day in the past, just never in the big race. The 74-year-old trainer says it was all practice for Saturday, when he will saddle West Saratoga in the Derby.

The Kentucky Derby turns 150 years old this Saturday. America’s longest continuously held sporting event has survived two world wars, the Great Depression and pandemics, including COVID-19 in 2020.

Here’s how much it costs to get into Churchill Downs and witness the 150th Kentucky Derby live in-person.