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Santa Anita cancels 2 more days of upcoming races

ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) Santa Anita is cancelling two days of racing over the next two weeks because of a shortage of entries.

Songbird looks to soar in Phipps Stakes on Belmont undercard

NEW YORK (AP) Songbird makes her season debut Saturday in the $750,000 Ogden Phipps Stakes for fillies and mares, the glamour race on the Belmont Stakes undercard.

Secretatriat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths 44 years ago on June 9

Watch arguably the greatest race by any horse

Irish War Cry returns to Triple Crown as 7-2 Belmont fave

NEW YORK (AP) Irish War Cry is returning to the Triple Crown trail as the 7-2 favorite for the Belmont Stakes.

Likely favorite Classic Empire to miss Belmont with abscess

NEW YORK (AP) Classic Empire is out of the Belmont Stakes because of an abscess in his right front foot.

Wings of Eagles wins English Derby with Queen in attendance

EPSOM, England (AP) Wings of Eagles rallied to win the English Derby at 40-1 odds, giving trainer Aidan O’Brien his sixth victory in the race and Queen Elizabeth among the spectators on Saturday.

Classic Empire trains for Belmont; True Timber won't run

NEW YORK (AP) Preakness runner-up Classic Empire completed his last serious training for the upcoming Belmont Stakes.

Churchill Downs moves online wagering operations to Kentucky

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) The parent company of Churchill Downs racetrack, home of the Kentucky Derby, has moved its online wagering operations from Silicon Valley to Kentucky.

Preakness winner Cloud Computing to skip Belmont Stakes

NEW YORK (AP) Preakness winner Cloud Computing won’t run in the Belmont Stakes, leaving the final leg of the Triple Crown without the winners of the first two races.

Kentucky Derby winner Classic Empire to skip Belmont Stakes

NEW YORK (AP) Kentucky Derby winner Classic Empire will skip the Belmont Stakes next month after finishing eighth in the Preakness.

Watch as Cloud Computing stuns the 2017 Preakness Stakes

Javier Castellano and Chad Brown teamed to get the 3-year-old to the winner’s circle

How a $1 bet on the Preakness returned more than $280K

The Super High Five paid $283,223.40

13-1 shot Cloud Computing springs upset in Preakness

BALTIMORE (AP) Cloud Computing ran down Classic Empire in the final strides Saturday to win the Preakness by a head.

Payouts for the 2017 Preakness Stakes

Cloud Computing led the way in the second leg of the Triple Crown

On the scene at the 142nd Preakness Stakes

Baltimore’s Pimlico Race Course was packed with spectators jockeying to be part of the action.

Pimlico survives another Preakness, but for how much longer?

BALTIMORE (AP) A record-setting crowd on Friday, followed by a huge throng for the Preakness, will enable the owners of aging Pimlico Race Course to break even this year.

The Latest: Everything Lovely wins on Preakness undercard

BALTIMORE (AP) The Latest on the Preakness Stakes (all times local):

Always Dreaming remains 4-5 favorite for Preakness Stakes

Classic Empire continues to be the second choice at 3-1

Grease fire in Pimlico grandstand; no injuries, races go on

BALTIMORE (AP) A grease fire broke out at Pimlico Race Course on Friday before the gates opened for Black-Eyed Susan Day.

Always Dreaming heads field of 10 for 2017 Preakness Stakes

The post position draw and morning-line odds for the second leg of the Triple Crown

Bargain buy Conquest Mo Money making run at Preakness Stakes

The $8,500 purchase will try and win the second leg of the Triple Crown

2017 Preakness Stakes cheat sheet

The second jewel of the Triple Crown will be run May 20 at Pimlico

Gunnevera to get Mike Smith as rider in Preakness

BALTIMORE (AP) Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith will ride Gunnevera in the Preakness, replacing Javier Castellano who has chosen another horse for the second leg of the Triple Crown.

What it's like to be an owner of a Kentucky Derby winner

Terry FInley of West Point Thoroughbreds had quite the day at Churchill Downs

Watch Always Dreaming win the 143rd Kentucky Derby

The 3-year-old posted a convincing victory over a sloppy strip at Churchill Downs on Saturday.

Kentucky Derby 2017 payouts: Win, place, show and exotic results

Always Dreaming won as the 9-2 favorite

Always Dreaming Wins Kentucky Derby

There were no surprises in Louisville as one of the morning favorites, Todd Pletcher-trained Always Dreaming, took the 143rd Kentucky Derby with a waterlogged unofficial time of 2:03.59.

On the scene at the 143rd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs

There were the requisite hats, rainy day puddles and even a proposal at Churchill Downs

Kentucky Derby: How to watch the Run for the Roses, the wagering menu

There will be big bucks flowing into the Churchill Down pools on Saturday

Always Dreaming is the 9-2 early choice for the Kentucky Derby

The Run for the Roses is shaping up to be a wide open race.