The Baltimore Banner has embeded with Maryland-based trainer H. Graham Motion as he prepares for the state’s most important race days.

The third Saturday in May at Old Hilltop is worth experiencing at least once if you’ve never been. Here’s a guide on where to sit and how to get to the track, with some tips for the best way to experience this historic event.

The colt scarfed down his meal. “I’m big on that. I always believe the faster they eat, the faster they run,” Kenny McPeek said.

Legendary Maryland trainer Graham Motion explains how he makes decisions about when his horses are ready to run — and what race they should enter.

In an effort to better understand a trainer’s thought process, The Baltimore Banner will follow H. Graham Motion as he trains a horse for a race happening sometime during the two days of Preakness and the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes.

“The next chapter...I like how that sounds,” Rubenstein posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Go @Orioles.”

Maryland officials and The Stronach Group have agreed to a plan that would transfer Pimlico Race Course to the state, which would build a new racetrack at the historic Northwest Baltimore site and create a nonprofit to run day-to-day horse racing operations.

The move follows similar increases by the other two races in the Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes.

David Rubenstein, a Baltimore native and Maryland resident with a net worth of more than $4 billion, is part of a group that has agreed to buy the Baltimore Orioles for $1.725 billion.

Hello, Swifties. Hello, confused football fans. We’re here to help you connect and understand each other. Here are some of the important Ravens players and the songs that explain them.

Hello, Swifties. Hello, confused football dads. We’re here to help you connect and understand each other. Here are some of the important moments from the Ravens’ season and the songs that explain them.

A mashup of Ravens coach John Harbaugh’s dancing and the over-the-top theatrics of Future Islands singer Sam Herring is pure Baltimore bliss.

Speaking with reporters, Cook said he’s ready to give “everything I got in the tank. It’s the playoffs, man.”

Before his reported ankle and leg injuries, Andrews had 45 catches for 544 yards and six touchdowns in 10 games.

The Preakness purse has been $1.65 million, while the Belmont Stakes' was recently raised to $2 million.

Jackson told Brady, who has won seven of them, that what he truly wants is to win the Super Bowl: ‘That’s the accolade I really want, so bad,’

It was a banner year all around for Russell, who finished 2023 with 177 wins in 687 starts for nearly $8 million in purse earnings, all career highs.

What we learned from the latest plan to revitalize Maryland horse racing.

Cook, who was waived Tuesday by the New York Jets after a disappointing season, became a free agent early Thursday afternoon.

Lamar Jackson solved a riddle on X/Twitter, and from there the Ravens have been the most dominant team in football. Coincidence? Sure, yes, of course. But let’s have fun with it anyway.