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Preakness / Filly steals the show and makes history

May. 16, 2009
BALTIMORE - For every step of the $1.1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on Saturday, the lady was a champ. Rachel Alexandra proved she is the best 3-year-old horse in the country, maybe the world. The filly rewrote the Preakness history books, becoming the...
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BALTIMORE, May 16 (UPI) -- Three-year-old filly Rachel Alexandra won Saturday's $1.1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.

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BALTIMORE, May 15 (UPI) -- The second leg of horse racing's Triple Crown will be held Saturday, a race that has produced a unique plot twist.
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BALTIMORE, May 13 (UPI) -- Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird and Kentucky Oaks winner Rachel Alexandra headline a field of 13 entered for Saturday's Preakness Stakes.
Maryland works to keep Preakness

Maryland works to keep Preakness

ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 14 (UPI) -- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed emergency legislation that will help the state keep the Preakness Stakes, the middle leg of the Triple Crown, in Baltimore.
ZZ Top to headline Preakness concert

ZZ Top to headline Preakness concert

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Behindatthebar scratched from Preakness

BALTIMORE, May 16 (UPI) -- Behindatthebar, the early line No. 3 favorite, has been scratched from Saturday's Preakness Stakes due to injury.

Curlin nips Street Sense to win Preakness

BALTIMORE, May 19 (UPI) -- Curlin, third in the Kentucky Derby, caught Street Sense at the wire Saturday to win the $1 million Preakness Stakes. Ridden by Robby Albarado, Curlin redeemed himself with the victory in the second leg of racing's Triple Crown at Pimlico Race Course in B

Kentucky Derby finishers eye Preakness

BALTIMORE, May 7 (UPI) -- Kentucky Derby runner-ups Hard Spun and Curtin are expected to join winner Street Sense at the 132nd running of the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore. The mile and 3/16 race will be held at Pimilco on May 19, but unlike the Derby, the Preakness is limited to

Preakness winner Bernardini out of Belmont

LEXINGTON, Ky., May 24 (UPI) -- Preakness winner Bernardini will not run in the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of horse racing's annual Triple Crown.

NBC gets deal for Derby, Preakness

NEW YORK, May 4 (UPI) -- NBC has struck a deal to retain TV rights to the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes until 2010, The Hollywood Reporter said Wednesday.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler