Happily Unbridled

Steve Haskin talks with Ignacio Correas, IV, who trains Tiger Walk for Sagamore Farm. Sponsored by Three Chimneys Farm.

Steve Haskin reports on the Preakness post position draw, new arrivals, and I’ll Have Another. Sponsored by Three Chimneys Farm.

Grade 2 winners Casino Host and Smart Bid are top contenders in Saturday’s Grade
2, $300,000 Dixie Stakes, one of six stakes races on the Preakness undercard at Pimlico. The 1 1/8-mile affair will feature a field of 11 turf
horses.

Haskin’s Preakness Report: Cozzene and Nerud

The New York Racing Association has named Ellen McClain as its new president and Kenneth V. Handal as acting general counsel and chief ethics and compliance officer.

After recording his first win since last spring’s Preakness (gr. I), Shackleford is being groomed for a start in the $750,000 Metropolitan Handicap (gr. I) at Belmont Park May 28.

Trainer Doug O’Neill could face a suspension and fine stemming from a 2010 finding in California that a horse in his care had an elevated level of total carbon dioxide in his blood system.

Thrust into the national spotlight with a victory aboard I’ll Have Another in the May 5 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), Mario Gutierrez has kept his ego in check while thoroughly enjoying the whirlwind ride.

Comments from the connections of I’ll Have Another after his Kentucky Derby win.

The 2012 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.