A valet — "equipment manager" is a better description — for more than 20 years, he will have six or seven jockeys and 14 races to juggle on Preakness day, and in the 20 minutes between races, he must pull together saddles, silks, head gear and goggles.
By Mark Zerof, US PRESSWIRE Jockey Kent Desormeaux failed a breathalyzer test Friday, and lost his ride aboard Tiger Walk in the Preakness. By Mark Zerof, US PRESSWIRE Jockey Kent Desormeaux failed a breathalyzer test Friday, and lost his ride aboard
Codex won in 1980, the first time Lukas ever saddled up a Preakness horse. He next won in 1985 with Tank's Prospect, and although his memory is perhaps a bit shaky regarding the timing of each victory, the 76-year-old Lukas knows darn well he's won the
The Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown, will be contested at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Saturday.
The spectacular head-on view of the stretch duel between Ridan and Greek Money in the 1962 Preakness Stakes was captured almost by accident 50 years ago, on a scorching hot May afternoon by Joseph DiPaola Jr.,
