Longshot Oxbow Wins Preakness Stakes

Orb, the Kentucky Derby winner, finished fourth.

Oxbow, a 15-1 longshot, went nearly wire-to-wire to win the 138th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday giving trainer D. Wayne Lukas the all-time lead in Triple Crown race victories with 14. The bay colt, ridden by 50-year old Gary Stevens and owned by Calumet Farm, took the lead early from Goldencents and won the $1 million Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown by 1 ¾ lengths holding off Itsmyluckyday and Mylute in 1:57.54. Oxbow also ended hopes for a Triple Crown winner for another year. Orb, the winner of the Kentucky Derby, never got started from his No. 1 post position and finished a disappointing fourth. "I get paid to spoil dreams," Lukas said after the race.  "You can’t mail it in, it’s a different surface, a different …

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When Is the Preakness?

The 138th running of the Baltimore tradition will be held this Saturday.

We're in the final stretch before the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Here's what you need to know. When is it? The Triple Crown race will be held at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Pimlico. NBC (WRC, WBAL) and Horse Racing Radio Network (WSPZ-AM in Washington is the only area affiliate) will have the call, which will also be streaming on the radio network's website. The first post on the day is at 10:45 a.m. Tickets? They are still available. Infield tickets are $60. Admission to the grandstand starts at $25, with box seats starting at $110. Tickets for the infield Mug Club, which include unlimited beer, are sold out. Weather? It's forecast to be partly sunny in Baltimore Saturday, with a high of 78. …

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Kentucky Derby Winner Orb Has Maryland Ties

Orb won the first leg of the Triple Crown Saturday, making up major ground in the home stretch to win the Kentucky Derby.

Orb, a thoroughbred with Maryland ties, won the Kentucky Derby Saturday, setting up a potential homecoming story later this month at the Preakness. Ridden by Joel Rosario, Orb began well back in the 20-horse field, before closing very strong in the home stretch.  "I was really far back," Rosario told NBC. "I said hopefully he can go faster than that. I was saying maybe I was too far back, but it was so easy." See video of the race on NBCSports.com. The horse is owned by northern Baltimore County resident Stuart S. Janney, an executive with a New York-based financial firm, according to The Sun. Orb's father, Malibu Moon, is owned by Bel Air's Pons family of Country Life Farm, The Sun reported last month. The winning time was 2:02.89, as Orb…

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Lutherville Native Finalist For One Love Foundation Award

The foundation, established in honor of slain Cockeysville native Yeardley Love, will present its Unsung Hero awards later this month.

A Lutherville native was among the finalists announced by the One Love Foundation Wednesday for an award that celebrates selfless acts and committment on the part of Division I lacrosse players. Frankie Kelly, a junior midfielder at the University of North Carolina, is among 10 college lacrosse players up for the Yeardley Reynolds Love Unsung Hero Award, which will be presented later this month. "The award recognizes accomplishments of student-athletes who help their team achieve success in ways that may not be measured in goals, saves or ground balls," accordin to a press release from the foundation. "The honor is meaningful because it places value on characteristics that are often undervalued in the competitively charged environment of …

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Nascar No. 31 Cheerios Car, Orioles Bird in Timonium Sunday

Visit ShopRite in Timonium from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 28, for a day of family fun.

Orioles' Adam Jones Is New Lutherville Neighbor

He bought the $1.75 million home from former Ravens offensive coordinator Cam Cameron, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.

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Franchot Goes Old School

The state comptroller criticizes the president of Towson University and compares her to a movie villain.

Comptroller Peter Franchot went "Old School" on Towson University President Maravene Loeschke during a Wednesday meeting. Literally. Before calling for the resignation of Loeschke, the comptroller gave the Towson University president a political tongue lashing in absentia. Then Franchot, the Amherst graduate, dropped in a pop culture reference comparing her to the Dean Gordon "Cheese" Pritchard, head of the fictional Harrison University in the movie "Old School." Pritchard, played by Jeremy Piven, lies and schemes and connives to thwart a group of middle-age men who attempt to start their own fraternity. In this case, Franchot was worked up over how Loeschke choose to tell students she was eliminating the men's baseball and soccer programs…

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Report: Cockeysville Resident Injured in Boston Marathon Blast

The 29-year-old was reportedly supporting her mother, who was running the marathon.

A 29-year-old Ellicott City native was injured in an explosion Monday near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, the Baltimore Sun reports.  Erika Brannock, who now lives in Cockeysville, was in Boston with family supporting her mother, who was expected to cross the finish line at about the time of an explosion, a friend of Brannock’s told the Sun.  According to a report by The Huffington Post, 140 were injured and three dead, including an 8-year-old boy, after two explosions went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. President Barack Obama has called it "an act of terrorism," according to another Huffington Post report. Brannock's friend, Ericka Leonard, told the Sun that Brannock was being treated for “extensive damage” to …

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