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.
After an exciting Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve May 6, the focus of the horse racing world shifts to the $1.65 million, Grade 1 Preakness Stakes May 20 at venerable Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md.
Tom Pedulla presents five key takeaways from the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes, a prep race for the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets, and other major developments this weekend.
By the 1920s, horse racing was rebounding from the trying circumstances of the previous two decades, where the sport has contracted from more than 300 racetracks prior to 1900 to only 25 by the end of the 1910s.
