With all of the heavy duty training completed, May 12 featured a routine morning of jogging and galloping around Laurel Park for those entrants on hand.

Preakness Stakes (G1) notes from Laurel Park

Although Golden Tempo is not pursuing the Triple Crown, his jockey Jose Ortiz will continue his quest to win all three races this season when he rides Chip Honcho in the $2 million Preakness Stakes May 16 at Laurel Park.

1/ST Racing will partner with Irish technology company Equine MediRecord and its group Business Infusions to digitize equine welfare protocols for Preakness 151.

2025 Elkhorn Stakes (G2T) winner Utah Beach remained in the Bluegrass State last May and repeated in the Louisville Stakes (G3T) at Churchill Downs. Now the latest Elkhorn winner from Keeneland, Burnham Square, attempts to follow suit.

Code, a half sister to grade 1 winner Locked, scored May 9 on the Gulfstream Park turf.

Quality extends beyond the trio of graded stakes May 15 at Laurel Park into a supporting cast of ungraded events.

Little Miss Curlin, who was recently moved to the Steve Asmussen barn, takes on the $150,000 Miss Preakness Stakes (G3) May 15 at Laurel Park.

The Horse Racing Women's Association announces its 2026 conference will be held Oct. 12-14 in Lexington.

Rose's Desert, the dam of Preakness Stakes (G1) entrant The Hell We Did, is the gift that keeps giving for the Peacock family, and those associated with her at Shawhan Place, near Paris, Ky.