Tom Pedulla offers five takeaways from the $2 million Preakness Stakes, the middle leg of the Triple Crown, and other major developments this weekend at Baltimore’s Pimlico Race Course.
Seize the Grey seized his moment May 18 in the $2 million Preakness Stakes under young jockey Jaime Torres at Pimlico Race Course, taking charge early, controlling the pace, and outrunning
Advancements in airline travel had an amazingly profound impact on everyday life in this country.
It brought the eastern and western shores closer together, and created business opportunities that would have seemed ridiculous a century ago.
Trans-continental flights allowed professional franchises to expand into the Golden State of California in the late 1950s and it wasn’t too long before East-West rivalries sprang up, involving teams such as the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics.
Bob Ehalt and Tom Pedulla became fast friends when they met on their first day at Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx, N.Y., in 1970. Bob soon introduced Tom to the joys of Thoroughbred racing.
Legendary European jockey Frankie Dettori has won races in at least 24 different countries, an atlas of a list that includes Hungary and Trinidad and Tobago.
His résumé includes more than 500 group/graded stakes wins.
He has won the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe six times. The Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf five times. The Dubai World Cup Presented by Emirates Airline four times, and the Japan Cup three times.
