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Preakness Winner Seize the Grey Enters Latest Triple Crown Rankings at No. 3

Each week, members of the national media vote on the nation's top contenders on the Triple Crown trail in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Top Thoroughbred Poll.

Week 17 of the 2024 Top 3-Year-Old Thoroughbred Poll conducted by the NTRA covers racing performances through May 20, 2024. Seize the Grey, winner of the Preakness Stakes May 18 at Pimlico, enters the latest poll at No. 3.

Ruffian and jockey Jacinto Vasquez after winning the 1974 Sorority Stakes at Monmouth Park.

Remembering The Imperial, Elegant Ruffian

Bill Nack will never forget the phone call he received from fellow sportswriter John Pricci in June 1974, urging him to come to Belmont Park to see a 2-year-old filly make her second career start after she dominated by 15 lengths in her debut on May 22.

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2024 Triple Crown Prospect Profiles: Preakness Stakes Winner Seize the Grey

Welcome to 2024 Triple Crown Prospect Profiles, where we’ll take a look each week at a recent winner on the U.S. Classics trail, with the focus this week on last week’s Preakness Stakes and the upcoming 156th running of the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets June 8 at Saratoga Race Course.

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Meteoric Rise ‘Like a Movie’ for Jockey Jaime Torres, 25, After Preakness Win

It has been a meteoric rise to stardom for 25-year-old jockey Jaime Torres.

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The Memories Shine: Ten Years Later, Looking Back on California Chrome’s Bid for the 2014 Triple Crown

Every so often, a Thoroughbred racehorse elevates above the tried-and-true, everyday fan-o-sphere of the sport and captures the national consciousness. Secretariat is the gold standard, of course.

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