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There’s only one way that Maryland-born and raised Nik Juarez’s homecoming this week could be any better.

“It’s monumental to be at Pimlico,” the 31-year-old jockey and fourth-generation horseman said. “One, to ride the Preakness. But let’s win it.”

If trainer Jamie Osborne and Heart of Honor, his entry in the May 17 Preakness Stakes, seem out of place at Pimlico Race Course it’s probably because there hasn’t been a starter in the second leg of the Triple Crown bred outside of North America since th

Half a dozen of the jockeys participating in the May 3 Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve have experienced the thrill of winning it.

Ethan West, 32, didn’t expect to find himself in the position of saddling a Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve starter so early in his training career, which launched in 2018.

Overachieving Coal Battle, a $70,000 purchase for Norman Stables at the Texas Thoroughbred Association summer yearling sale, has to be the greatest feel-good story of the 151st Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve.

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