2018 Preakness Stakes

143rd Preakness Stakes
May 19th 2018
Justify is 2/3 of the way to the Triple Crown and the first since American Pharoah in 2015.
He had to battle fog and rain as well as fighting off Good Magic who pressed him the whole way and fending off hard charging Bravazo and Tenfold, who finished 2nd and 3rd respectively. 
He now moves to the 150th running of the "Test of Champions", the Belmont Stakes.

1966 World Series

The 1966 World Series was a matchup between American champion Baltimore Orioles and National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
On paper the Orioles pitching was not as deep or commanding as the Dodgers twosome of Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax.  Koufax was the 1966 Cy Young Award Winner as baseball's best pitcher and Drysdale had won the Cy Young Award in 1962.
The Orioles however had one of the greatest hitters in major league history in Frank Robinson, whom they obtained in a trade from the Cincinnati Reds before the season started.
Robinson had won the National League MVP in 1961 with the Reds and then became the first player to win the award in both leagues when he won the American League MVP in 1966.  This was a "triple crown" year for Frank Robinson as he led the AL in batting average (.316), runs batted in (122) and home runs (49) and powered the Orioles to their first league championship since moving to Baltimore.

The Series was a four game sweep by the Orioles that no one expected as the Orioles pitchers limited the Dodgers to 2 runs in the 4 games.  The Dodgers bats went silent after game 1 and they were shut out in the last 3 games (6-0,1-0 and 1-0) facing Jim Palmer, Wally Bunker and Dave McNally.   Frank Robinson, fittingly, won the World Series MVP.

The Orioles became the first non-Yankees american league team to win the World Series since the 1948 Cleveland Indians.

2013 Preakness Stakes (05/18/2013)

The 138th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Park in Baltimore MD saw the heavy favorite get a bad starting gate and then get squeezed and knocked off his game.  This left the door open for wire to wire winner Oxbow to runaway from the pack.

The Preakness Stakes - 2011

Saturday May 21st was the 136th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Park in Baltimore Maryland.


The favorite was Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom.


He gave it a great effort but came up short to my Derby pick Shackelford.