Despite the on-track crowd being limited, handle for this year's 14-race Preakness Stakes (G1) card reached $108,741,963, down just 1.2% from last year's 14-race card ($110,043,794).
Returned to turf after three starts on dirt and all-weather surfaces, Warming delivered an explosive move in the stretch to surge to a 1-length victory in the $150,000 Gallorette Stakes (G3T) May 16 at Laurel Park.
Fort Washington delivered a brilliant encore performance to take the $247,500 Dinner Party Stakes (G3T) May 16 at Laurel Park under a perfectly timed ride by Junior Alvarado.
Bring the Smoke proved to be up to the task in his stakes debut May 16 at Laurel Park as he rallied strongly through the stretch to win the $150,000 Maryland Sprint Stakes (G3).
Godolphin's reigning Horse of the Year Sovereignty topped a long list of prominent horses to breeze over the Oklahoma training track May 16 at Saratoga Race Course.
If Charlie Appleby needed one horse to prove that stable form should be taken with a pinch of salt, then Notable Speech was the one to do it as he fired another brilliant success in the May 16 Lockinge Stakes (G1) at Newbury Racecourse.
Cachet, the filly who provided trainer George Boughey with his first classic success in the 2022 One Thousand Guineas (G1), died in Japan earlier this year at the age of 7.