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Seize the Grey crowned winner in muddy race

‘Are you kidding me?’ Seize the Gray proprietor in blissful disbelief

Seize the Gray proprietor Michael Behrens mentioned that for quarter-hour after his horse received the Preakness, all he might say was, “Are you kidding me?!”

“We had some massive expectations, however this exceeds all these expectations. I actually don’t have phrases,” Behrens mentioned. “I actually don’t have phrases.”

“I can’t imagine this. That is the race I’ve wished to win, that is the race I’ve wished to win for two,570 individuals. It’s 100% ours.”

Behrens is an proprietor, however solely one among 2,570 in a gaggle that owns Seize the Gray.

Time with the legend

D. Wayne Lukas — once more — will get it accomplished.

Seize the Gray jockey Torres thanks household for sacrifices

Two years after coming into jockey college, profitable Preakness jockey Jaime Torres thanked his household for his or her assist.

Torres, from Puerto Rico, rode Seize the Gray to the Preakness win over favourite Mystik Dan, who completed second.

“Very excited,” Torres mentioned after the win. “Very excited and really grateful to all of the individuals which have been beside me serving to me.”

“My household, I need to thank them. As a result of we got here — like lots of people, loads of jockeys — we got here from the underside. … To afford flights and all these issues, to assist me, I do know is tough. They nonetheless do it as a result of they love me. And I respect that so much,” he mentioned.

Watch Seize the Gray win the Preakness.

He entered at 9-1 odds, outlasting Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan.

Seize the Gray wins 149th Preakness

Seize the Gray has received the 149th Preakness at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

And we’re off!

The 149th Preakness is underway.

Closing odds coming into Preakness

1. Mugatu — 16-1

2. Uncle Heavy — 7-1

3. Catching Freedom — 7/2

4. Muth (scratched)

5. Mystik Dan — 5/2

6. Seize the Gray — 9-1

7. Simply Metal — 9-1

8. Tuscan Gold — 4-1

9. Creativeness — 4-1

Baltimore Ravens icon Ray Lewis calls riders up

Ray Lewis stayed in his Baltimore Ravens character, calling riders up after which breaking into the dance that he carried out to guide his staff’s fearsome protection.

Uncle Heavy is a protracted shot to contemplate

I do not see him as a contender on the 149th Preakness Stakes, however his 20-1 odds make him an intriguing long-shot play.

Horses heading to beginning line

The horses and jockeys are making their method to the gate. The race is moments away.

Who’s Mystik Dan’s jockey?

In accordance with NBC Sports activities’ Nathan Ackerman:

Brian Hernandez Jr., from Layafette, La., has one Triple Crown win — the 2024 Kentucky Derby, in fact. He’s had 4 makes an attempt within the Preakness. He gained widespread reward for his masterful rail-skimming approach at Churchill Downs a pair weeks in the past, serving to him grow to be the primary jockey since 2009 (and eighth all time) to win the Kentucky Oaks and Derby in the identical yr.

“Brian’s superb,” McPeek mentioned after the Derby win. “In all probability probably the most underrated riders in racing. However not anymore.”

My choose to win the Preakness

Once I picked Simply Metal within the Derby, I acknowledged that my observe document was poor and that I used to be listening to my coronary heart greater than my head. The story of a resurgent 88-year-old D. Wayne Lukas, his profession unexpectedly rejuvenated with a bundle of gifted additions to his barn, resonates powerfully with me. 

However you see what that obtained me. 

So this time, I’ll go together with my head. A modest tempo appears probably, so I’d like a horse who received’t be too removed from the entrance. A stalker kind that has proven a capability to sit down simply off the tempo after which flip it on as they flip for house appeals to me. I’d additionally prefer it to be a horse that has put up robust pace figures. And a jockey who has loved Triple Crown success can be a plus, too. Oh, and naturally, I’m additionally in search of a worth.

By God, I’ve accomplished it once more. I’ve talked myself into D. Wayne Lukas and Simply Metal.

Who’s Mystik Dan’s coach?

NBC Sports activities’ Nathan Ackerman breaks it down:

Mystik Dan’s coach is Ken McPeek, who turned the fourth coach ever to win the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby in the identical yr, when Thorpedo Anna received the previous and Mystik Dan the latter. McPeek is the primary coach to win each in the identical yr since 1952.

The Derby win accomplished the profession Triple Crown for McPeek, whose Swiss Skydiver received the Preakness in 2020. McPeek has received every Triple Crown race precisely as soon as.

Muth scratch makes Preakness a ‘wide-open’ race

The Bob Baffert-trained Muth was scratched earlier than the Preakness after operating a fever earlier than journey. Here is why Mystik Dan, Creativeness and Tuscan Gold are the beneficiaries.

A assured transfer by Brad Cox?

The pattern of trainers’ refusing to run horses on quick relaxation is embodied by Brad Cox. Previously 5 years, as of this writing, his horses have made a complete of 4,741 begins in races throughout the nation. What number of of these begins got here two weeks or much less after the earlier ones? Simply 60.

Not surprisingly, then, not one of the 9 Derby horses Cox fielded earlier than this yr ever tried the two-week turnaround in Baltimore. However in a call that has caught many off guard, he’s going for it Saturday with Catching Freedom, the fourth-place Derby finisher.

And, uncommon as it’s, when Cox does ship out horses on quick relaxation like that, his stats are eye-catching. Of the 60 he has run on two weeks’ (or much less) relaxation, a formidable 16 (27%) have received. And if we set actual parameters just like the Preakness — races at distances run on filth with quick relaxation — Cox is one-for-one, with Tawny Port profitable (at 5-1) the 2022 Lexington Stakes precisely two weeks after a run within the Blue Grass Stakes.

Seize the Gray presents good worth for bettors

Here is why I like his long-shot odds to win the Preakness Stakes after topping the sphere within the Pat Day Mile two weeks in the past.

‘That is for him,’ Mystik Dan proprietor says one yr after father died

Mystik Dan proprietor Lance Gasaway’s ideas had been along with his father, Clint, the person who obtained his son into horse racing, who died one yr in the past.

“You recognize, it’s like, that is for him now,” Lance Gasaway mentioned. “That is his final run with Mystik Dan.”

Mystik Dan is a favourite to win at this time’s Preakness.

Clint Gasaway died at his house in Gould, Arkansas, on Might 4, 2023, on the age of 85.

Mystik Dan received this yr’s Kentucky Derby, which was held precisely one yr to the day after Clint Gasaway died.

Irish import Balnikhov wins Dinner Occasion Stakes

Balnikhov slogged via the moist grass and pulled away to win the Dinner Occasion Stakes, the highest undercard contest forward of the thirteenth race at Pimlico, the Preakness.

Jockey Frankie Dettori bided his time earlier than hitting the Irish import’s accelerator down the stretch to outduel Crabs N Beer and Working Bee.

The $500,000 Dinner Occasion is the eighth-oldest graded stakes race in America and was first run in 1870 on the opening day of brand-new Pimlico Race Course.

That inaugural race was received by the famed colt Preakness, whose tragic loss of life in 1881 led this basic American race to be named in his honor.

How Kentucky Derby winners have fared at Preakness

In relation to the Derby winner, right here’s the image that emerges:   

  • 23 of 25 Kentucky Derby winners ran within the Preakness.
  • 18 of them completed within the prime three.
  • 10 of them received.

That’s 10 wins from the final 23 Derby winners who contested the Preakness — successful fee of 43%. And it is smart. The Preakness is a much more compact and far much less chaotic race than a 20-horse Derby donnybrook. And particularly in recent times, as trainers have shied away from operating horses on quick relaxation, most of the most gifted Derby also-rans have merely skipped this race.

On Saturday, moreover Mystik Dan, solely two Derby alums will compete: fourth-place finisher Catching Freedom and Seventeenth-place Simply Metal.

Mystik Dan, in fact, isn’t an odd Derby champ. He was a protracted shot, profitable at 18-1 odds. That creates skepticism. Was it a fluke? A product of that flawless, rail-skimming journey that jockey Brian Hernandez labored out? That’s why it was Muth, not Mystik Dan, who was initially tabbed as the favourite.

Deal will preserve Preakness in Baltimore ‘for generations’

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore celebrated at this time’s Preakness by trying to the long run — generations into the long run.

The state lately handed laws to switch possession of Pimlico Race Course from the Stronach Group to the state of Maryland.

The deal additionally contains what’s being known as full renovations of Pimlico services, in addition to a $10 million funding within the Park Heights group the place it sits.

“We simply signed a landmark piece of laws, a generational piece of laws, that’s going to maintain the Preakness right here in Baltimore for generations to come back,” Moore said in a video today on X.

Subsequent yr, the one hundred and fiftieth, is anticipated to be held at Pimlico. Some years after that it is going to be held at Laurel Park racetrack whereas constriction is underway at Pimlico, the governor’s workplace mentioned. The state will lease that observe for 3 years for $1 every.

The Pimlico Race Course first opened in 1870, and it’s the second oldest racetrack within the nation. The Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York, opened six years earlier, in 1864.

Will climate influence the race?

There has already been rain in Baltimore this week, and Saturday’s forecast is unsettled. The potential for moist climate raises the potential for a moist observe — a major variable.

Lengthy shot Uncle Heavy is notable for his unblemished moist observe document. Each of Seize the Gray’s moist floor journeys, in the meantime, got here at shorter distances — a pair of dash races final summer season. (He did, for what it’s value, present uncommon aggression in a win over the slop final summer season, charging to the lead and holding on for pricey life towards a top quality subject.)

It’s Mystik Dan who stands out essentially the most, although. He romped within the mud in February’s Southwest Stakes, crushing Simply Metal by eight lengths, with jockey Brian Hernandez using the identical rail-hugging ways we noticed two weeks in the past in Louisville. Perhaps it was that rail journey, not the muddy floor, that made the distinction within the Southwest for Mystik Dan. However on the very least we are able to say he doesn’t thoughts the mud one bit. 

Creativeness jockey Dettori needs luck to Arsenal, however horse has different concepts

Moments after video performed of Creativeness jockey Frankie Dettori praising England’s Arsenal Soccer Membership within the final a part of the Premier League season, his horse despatched a distinct message.

“Hey guys, I want you all the most effective within the final recreation of the season. You’ve been incredible,” Dettori mentioned, draped in an Arsenal scarf. “All the most effective and exit with a win.”

However Creativeness nuzzled towards a crimson Arsenal flag pinned up subsequent to his pen, then bit the decrease nook and pulled it down.

“And Dettori’s horse, Creativeness, apparently not on the identical aspect as his jockey,” NBC’s Mike Tirico quipped.

Grooms All Bizness rallies for Jim McKay Turf Dash victory

Grooms All Bizness navigated the moist grass and stormed to victory within the Jim McKay Turf Dash.

Jockey Jorge Ruiz’s gelding broke out of the No. 1 spot however wanted to seek out house in the midst of the observe down the stretch for the come-from-behind win.

The 5-2 favourite, Beer Can Man, completed fifth within the $100,000 race.

Additional relaxation could possibly be an element

Creativeness final ran April 6 within the Santa Anita Derby, that means he’ll be operating after a six-week break. Three different horses may gain advantage from comparable relaxation: Mugatu and Uncle Heavy haven’t run since April 6, and Tuscan Gold hasn’t since March 23.

All three horses, although, didn’t fare properly sufficient in qualifying races to make the Derby subject — Creativeness did (once more, he was stored out merely due to the Baffert ban).

Company Energy wins Sir Barton Stakes

Favored Company Energy put his nostril in entrance of Gould’s Gold in an exciting end to the Sir Barton Stakes, a Preakness undercard race.

Company Energy’s triumph survived a steward’s inquiry in mild of bumping down the stretch between the winner and place finisher Imperial Gun.

Place finisher Gould’s Gold was ridden by jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. and skilled by Kenny McPeek, the combo that guided Mystik Dan to win the Kentucky Derby by a nostril two weeks in the past.

The 1 1/16-mile $100,000 race is known as after the primary Triple Crown winner in 1919.

Who owns Mystik Dan?

NBC Sports activities’ Nathan Ackerman breaks all of it down:

Mystik Dan is owned by Lance Gasaway and the 4G Racing staff of Brent Gasaway (Lance’s cousin) and Brent’s spouse, Sharilyn. He’s additionally owned by Daniel Hamby III and his brother, Scott Hamby of Valley View Farm.

“To me, that is for him,” Lance Gasaway mentioned after the Derby, which befell precisely one yr after his father, Clint, died. “He liked the sport. He and I purchased horses collectively. … I’m simply so blissful for my household. I had all my household right here. It’s only a big day.”

Bob Baffert plans to make a press release Saturday

Bob Baffert, the Corridor of Fame coach, has been the lacking man in Louisville for 3 years now due to a ban Kentucky Derby officers imposed after Medina Spirit’s drugs violation in 2021.

However he’s welcome in Baltimore, and initially he was set to have two horses on this Preakness: Muth and Creativeness. Every would have simply certified to run within the Derby if not for Baffert’s suspension.

However Muth’s scratch from the Preakness leaves Creativeness as the only Baffert entrant. He’s simply 3-1 on the revised morning line and a serious contender. In a race that appears mild on tempo, he might be able to shoot straight to the lead, attempt to gradual the tempo down and final till the end line. It’s a favourite Baffert tactic. His final three Preakness winners — together with Nationwide Treasure simply final yr — all received in gate-to-wire vogue.

Baffert himself instructions respect on this stage. He’s the one dwelling coach to say the Triple Crown (two of them, truly), he has received an all-time document 17 Triple Crown races, and he’s essentially the most profitable Preakness coach ever, having taken this race eight instances. And similar to he did final yr, he has come to Baltimore intent on making a press release.

Preakness favourite Muth scratched earlier in week

Preakness favourite Muth has been dominated out of the race after spiking a fever, eradicating a horse skilled by Bob Baffert and doubtlessly giving Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan a clearer path via the second leg of the Triple Crown.

The Maryland Jockey Membership introduced Muth’s standing change Wednesday morning, roughly 12 hours after the horse arrived at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

Baffert mentioned Muth’s temperature reached 103 levels and the camp had no alternative however to scratch him. A horse’s physique temperature ought to be at or lower than 101.5 levels.

“We’re sick about this. The horse had been doing very well,” Baffert mentioned. “However now we have to do what’s proper by the horse.”

Which horses have received the Triple Crown?

There have been 13 horse racing Triple Crown winners.

  • Sir Barton, 1919
  • Gallant Fox, 1930
  • Omaha, 1935
  • Struggle Admiral, 1937
  • Whirlaway, 1941
  • Rely Fleet, 1943
  • Assault, 1946
  • Quotation, 1948
  • Secretariat, 1973
  • Seattle Slew, 1977
  • Affirmed, 1978
  • American Pharoah, 2015
  • Justify, 2018

What to know concerning the course, prize pot and climate

Distance: 1 3/16 miles (9.5 furlongs)

Whole prize pot for winners: $2 million

Climate forecast: 74 levels however a 40% probability of showers

Live updates, score, tracker Friday

Tiger Woods made a extremely anticipated return to motion on Friday for the second spherical of the 2024 PGA Championship. He completed Spherical 1 with a 1-over-72 and seemed to enhance as many golfers did on Friday.

“I believe that I’ve made a couple of cuts in a row, what was it, 140-some odd,” Woods mentioned to PGA after Spherical 1. “So it’s a must to simply grind it out. It is a marathon. Main championships are a protracted grind. It is simply plotting alongside. It isn’t a dash. It is only a grind.”

However that lengthy grind began very badly on Friday morning. Woods bogeyed on three of the primary 4 holes of the day and was 8-over by the fifth gap. Birdies on the seventh, eighth, and 18th holes could not overcome his early struggles and Woods missed the lower for the PGA Championship.

Tiger Woods 2024 PGA Championship Stay updates, tracker

Pos. Identify Whole (par) Via Spherical R1 (par) R2 (par) R3 (par) R4 (par)
T-134 Tiger Woods 149 (+7) 18 2 72 (+1) 77 (+6) — —
Tiger Woods within the 2024 PGA Championship

2024 PGA Championship area

Here is the highest of the Spherical 2 leaderboard:

  • No. 1: Xander Schauffele (-12)
  • No. 2: Collin Morikawa (-11)
  • No. 3: Sahith Theegala (-10)
  • T-No. 4: Mark Hubbard (-9)
  • T-No. 4: Thomas Detry (-9)
  • T-No. 4: Scottie Scheffler (-9)
  • T-No. 4: Bryson DeChambeau (-9)
  • T-No. 8: Viktor Hovland (-8)
  • T-No. 8: Robert MacIntyre (-8)
  • T-No. 8: Austin Eckroat (-8)
  • T-No. 11: Brooks Koepka (-7)
  • T-No. 11: HIdeki Matsuyama (-7)
  • T-No. 11: Matt Wallace (-7)
  • T-No. 11: Harris English (-7)
  • T-No. 11: Tony Finau (-7)

Tiger Woods Day 2 tee occasions

Woods will begin his spherical from Gap 1 at 2:49 p.m. ET.

Tiger Woods 2024 PGA Championship odds

In keeping with BetMGM, after Thursday’s 1-over 72 in Spherical 1, Woods has a +40000 odds to win the PGA Championship. It is a drop from his +20000 odds earlier than the beginning of the most important.

Louisville, Kentucky, Friday climate forecast

The climate in Louisville on Friday is anticipated to see intervals of rain with possibilities of showers at 70%. A excessive of 72 Fahrenheit and a low of 63.

2024 PGA Championship and watch

  • Dates: Might 16-19, 2024
  • Time: Protection begins 7 a.m. ET Thursday and Friday, 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday
  • Location: Valhalla Golf Membership, Louisville, Kentucky
  • Cable TV: ESPN (Thursday, Friday, early Saturday, early Sunday); CBS (Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon)
  • Streaming: ESPN+; YouTube TV; Paramount+; fuboTV

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PGA Championship: Tiger Woods rues mistakes and lack of tournament prep after major missed cut at Valhalla | Golf News

Tiger Woods admitted that enhancements are wanted in all areas of his recreation heading into the remainder of the key season after lacking the minimize on the PGA Championship.

Woods, making his first look since ending final of these making it via to the weekend at The Masters final month, skilled a bogey-bogey end to his opening-round 72 earlier than making a nightmare begin to his second spherical at Valhalla.

The previous world No 1 made two triple-bogeys within the first 4 holes of a six-over 77 on Friday, the primary time in his skilled profession he has had a number of triple-bogeys in a significant spherical, seeing him finish the week on seven over and 19 strokes behind midway chief Xander Schauffele.

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A glance again on the highs and lows of Tiger Woods’ opening spherical on the PGA Championship at Valhalla.

Woods is about to play the US Open at Pinehurst subsequent month after receiving a particular invite by the USGA to function, with the 48-year-old conceding there may be loads of work required – on and off the golf course – earlier than the third main of the 12 months.

“I would like to scrub up my rounds,” Woods mentioned. “Bodily, sure, I’m higher than I used to be a month in the past [The Masters]. I nonetheless have extra methods to go, numerous enchancment to go bodily, and hopefully my staff and I can get that executed pre-Pinehurst and going into it.

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Tiger Woods’ hopes of creating the minimize light after a triple-bogey seven on the par-four second

“It [his game] will [get better] In time. I simply have to play extra. Sadly, I simply have not performed an entire lot of tournaments, and never an entire lot of tournaments on my schedule both.

“Hopefully the whole lot will one way or the other come collectively in my follow periods at dwelling and be prepared for Pinehurst.”

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Tiger Woods was a earlier winner at Valhalla throughout the 2000 PGA Championship, a part of the notorious ‘Tiger Slam’

Woods has performed a restricted aggressive schedule lately because of harm, along with his newest missed minimize that means that he has nonetheless solely accomplished all 4 rounds of a event 4 instances since his Masters title defence in November 2020.

What went unsuitable for Woods?

In search of a quick begin to his second spherical, Woods missed a birdie alternative on his opening gap earlier than following an unpleasant triple-bogey on the par-four subsequent and three-putt bogey on the par-three third.

Any hope of him making the weekend rapidly light when he took two makes an attempt out of a greenside bunker on his method to one other triple-bogey on the par-four fourth, though Woods responded by birdieing the par-five seventh and coming agonisingly near a hole-in-one on the subsequent.

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Tiger Woods was inches away from his first PGA Tour hole-in-one since 1997 throughout his second spherical at Valhalla.

A strong par on the ninth noticed Woods attain the flip in 40, just for him to observe a three-putt bogey on the eleventh by lacking a five-footer to save lots of par on the subsequent to boost the potential of a career-worst spherical on the occasion.

Woods responded to scramble a sequence of pars on his again 9, earlier than signing off a disappointing week and one other missed minimize by getting up and down from the tough to birdie the par-five final.


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“I bought off to unhealthy begin and the tough grabbed me at two,” Woods added. “No sand within the bunker as properly – simply made a mistake there. I compounded the issue there at 4.

“I simply saved making errors and issues you may’t do, not simply in tournaments however in majors particularly. I simply saved making them. I hung round for a lot of the day however sadly the injury was executed early.”

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The place will Woods play subsequent?

He has gained the US Open on three events, in 2000, 2002 and 2008, and is now set to return to the occasion for the primary time since 2020. Woods is unlikely to function in a daily PGA Tour occasion earlier than then, primarily based on the ‘event a month’ schedule he focused for the season forward.

Woods has no tournaments listed within the schedule on his web site, though can even compete at The Open till he’s 60 and will likely be aiming to function at Royal Troon from July 18-21 to finish a full main schedule for the primary time since 2019.

Who will win the PGA Championship? Watch dwell all weekend on Sky Sports activities! Reside protection continues on Saturday from 2pm on Sky Sports activities Golf. Stream the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, majors and extra with NOW.

What time Preakness 2024 starts and horses to watch – NBC New York

Rain was falling at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday hours earlier than Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan goes for back-to-back Triple Crown victories when he takes on seven different horses within the Preakness Stakes.

He can be the primary to win each the Derby and the Preakness since Justify in 2018. That will arrange an uncommon and historic second subsequent month with a Triple Crown on the road on the Belmont Stakes.

Mystik Dan must beat Bob Baffert-trained Creativeness, Brad Cox’s Catching Freedom and Chad Brown’s Tuscan Gold, who’re the principle challengers, and the Preakness might be run on a muddy monitor, with showers anticipated to proceed all through the afternoon.

What time does Preakness 2024 begin?

The put up time is at 6:50 p.m. ET however you may catch the protection on NBC beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET, or stream on Peacock.

Baffert was set to saddle two horses within the race set to go off simply after 7 p.m. EDT, however morning line favourite Muth was scratched in the course of the week due to a fever. Mystik Dan opened Saturday because the 3-1 favourite, with Catching Freedom and Tuscan Gold every 7-2 and Creativeness 9-2.

“Catching Freedom educated rather well going into the Derby,” Mystik Dan’s coach, Kenny McPeek, mentioned this week. “He’s a really good horse. And Bob, he wouldn’t deliver a horse with out it being an excellent horse, and Chad’s additionally obtained a horse popping out of (ending third behind winner Catching Freedom in) the Louisiana Derby. Yeah, it is not a given.”

It was not a given that McPeek would ship Mystik Dan to Baltimore on a two-week turnaround from the colt’s exhausting win by a nostril within the Kentucky Derby. However he is one in all three horses from that race working within the Preakness, up from one final yr and two in 2022.

Many trainers’ reluctance to do the Derby-Preakness double, as soon as the norm for horses on the Triple Crown path, has raised questions on the status of the center jewel and issues that it has change into the undesirable stepchild of the sequence. There are debates about spacing the races out to adapt to fashionable thoroughbreds that race much less incessantly than in earlier eras.

This can be the ultimate Preakness at getting old Pimlico Race Course because it stands now, with demolition set to start early subsequent yr. The a hundred and fiftieth working in 2025 will nonetheless happen on the monitor throughout development earlier than shifting to Laurel Park in 2026 after which returning to a rebuilt Pimlico in 2027.

When is the Belmont Stakes and the place?

The ultimate leg of the Triple Crown is going down on June 8, and for the primary time, on the Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York due to renovations at Belmont Park in New York Metropolis.

Building is anticipated to final into 2025, so there is a good likelihood of the Belmont at Saratoga two years in a row.

Racing in New York is at present taking place at Aqueduct in Queens, which was residence to the Triple Crown finale from 1963-67, the final time Belmont Park was renovated.

The Script to play M&S Bank Arena this November

The Script are set to take the stage on the M&S Financial institution Enviornment in Liverpool this November.

The Script are a multi-platinum promoting band recognized for his or her chart-topping hits and unimaginable dwell performances, you possibly can see for your self on the M&S Financial institution Enviornment on 25 November.

After 10 billion streams, 12 million album gross sales, six UK #1 albums and two Platinum-certified US singles, The Script return with the discharge of their new album ‘Satellites’ on 16 August 2024.

Introduced alongside information of a UK and European enviornment tour, the album is previewed as we speak by the one ‘Each Methods’. You’ll be able to hear HERE.
 
‘Each Methods’ sees The Script strike out with swaggering new vitality, with boisterous hip-hop and funk rhythms offering the irresistible dance-floor vibes to enrich the star high quality of Danny’s voice.

The result’s frantically enjoyable, an explosive cocktail that brings to thoughts Black Eyed Peas enjoying Bruno Mars’ ‘Locked Out of Heaven’ and it’s a world other than something The Script have beforehand launched.

Glen Energy stated:

“Each Methods’ is excessive vitality, and possibly not what folks may anticipate from us. However we’re The Script, and now we’ve one thing to show: that there’s life and lightweight after the darkness. It’s why we’re coming quick and powerful with that one.”

Credit score: The Script / M&S Financial institution Enviornment

Vowing to pay tribute to their good friend (Mark Sheehan) by persevering with the band they’d constructed collectively, vocalist Danny O’Donoghue returned to the studio and experimented in various methods: utilizing 808s and enjoying with R&B-inspired sounds, specializing in upbeats sonics, and co-writing with hitmakers Steve Robson (Rascal Flatts, Take That) and Wayne Hector (One Course, Nicki Minaj) in addition to bandmate Glen Energy.

What emerged is ‘Satellites’, an totally uplifting assortment of songs that forges a brand new future for The Script whereas remembering that though Mark could not be right here, he stays an important a part of the whole lot that they do.

Danny stated: 

“The album cowl is silhouettes of me, Glen and Ben Sargeant, our bassist, who’s been with us from the start. Then we’ve a hooded silhouette, as a result of the air of Mark remains to be there. He all the time might be, but it surely’s additionally giving a tip of the hat to the longer term. It’ll by no means be the identical Script. We’re simply attempting to get on and do what it’s that all of us really feel is the following proper factor to do and that’s to maintain making extra nice music.”

‘Satellites’ is on the market to pre-order / pre-save HERE. The album is on the market as a restricted version hardback e book CD, black vinyl and customary CD. The Script’s official artist retailer additionally provides a restricted version white vinyl, cassette and new merchandise.
 
Followers who pre-order ‘Satellites’ from the band’s official retailer HERE earlier than 5pm BST on Tuesday, Could twenty first will obtain entry to an unique pre-sale for tickets for the UK and Eire tour dates. The pre-sale will open at 9:30am on Wednesday, Could 22.

Any remaining tickets go on normal sale HERE from 9:30am on Friday, Could 24.
 
After reuniting for choose exhibits of collective grieving and joyous communion with The Script household in 2023, the band are about to go out on an enormous tour supporting P!nk throughout the UK, Europe and America earlier than returning to large levels of their very own this autumn. It will see them play to over 2 million followers world wide this 12 months.

Tour help comes from very particular visitor Tom Walker on all dates besides Berlin, Munich and Milan.

To e book tickets direct with M&S Financial institution Enviornment for The Script click on right here.

The Script announce ‘Satellites World Tour’ including 10 UK dates

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The Script, the band behind hit reminiscent of ‘The Man Who Cannot Be Moved’, ‘Corridor of Fame’ and ‘Superheroes’ have introduced a model new tour for 2024 known as ‘Satellites World Tour’. The band, together with Danny O’Donoghue, Glen Energy, Ben Sargeant and Ben Weaver, have introduced 10 UK dates beginning on 18th November in Cardiff.

The band will then be touring throughout the UK together with dates in Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow, Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester and London.

The band have simply launched a brand new tune known as ‘Each Methods’ with the music video set to premiere at 5pm on Friday 18th Could. Talking in regards to the tune, Glen stated it has: “Excessive power, and perhaps not what folks would possibly count on from us. However we’re The Script, and now we now have one thing to show: that there life and light-weight after the darkness. It’s why we’re coming quick and powerful with that one.”

When are The Script on tour?

See the total checklist of UK tour dates:

November 2024

Cardiff, Utilita Enviornment – Mon 18th

Bournemouth, Worldwide Enviornment – Tue nineteenth

Nottingham, Motorpoint Enviornment – Wed twentieth

Birmingham, Utilita Enviornment – Fri twenty second

London, The O2 – Sat twenty third

Liverpool M&S Financial institution Enviornment – Mon twenty fifth

Glasgow, OVO Hydro – Tue twenty sixth

Leeds, First Direct Enviornment – Thu twenty eighth

Newcastle, Utilita Enviornment – Fri twenty ninth

Manchester, Co-op Reside – Sat thirtieth

Who’s the particular visitor on the ‘Satellites World Tour’?

‘Go away The Gentle On’ singer Tom Walker, who has simply completed his personal tour, will likely be becoming a member of The Script on the UK leg of their tour.

When are tickets on sale for The Script?

Tickets will likely be on sale on Friday twenty fourth Could at 9.30am from Aloud.com

Have a look via excursions developing in 2024 and past:

Ladies Aloud

Ladies Aloud have introduced they are going to be reuniting for a tour in 2024. The tour is named ‘The Ladies Aloud Present’ and can see the group performing a lot of their improbable hits in celebration of their late bandmate Sarah Harding.

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj will likely be happening her ‘Pink Friday 2 World Tour’ in Could 2024, together with UK dates, in Manchester, Birmingham and London.

P!nk

P!nk is bringing her ‘Summer season Carnival Tour’ again to the UK for 2024. The singer will likely be supported by The Script, Gayle and DJ and producer KidCutUp. Her tour takes place all through June 2024.

Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie has introduced a continuation of her ‘Unhealthy Membership’ tour. This new summer time tour will see the singer acting at festivals and different outside areas. Her summer time tour will happen in June and July 2024.

Taylor Swift – ‘The Eras Tour’ 2024

Taylor Swift has now introduced a number of UK dates for her ‘Eras’ tour. The singer will likely be coming to Liverpool, Edinburgh, Cardiff and London in June and August 2024.

Jonas Brothers 2024

Nick, Kevin and Joe Jonas, in any other case often known as the Jonas Brothers, will play 4 UK dates in September 2024 (rescheduled from June), in Manchester, London, Birmingham and Glasgow.

Tom Grennan – Gunnersbury Park

Tom Grennan has introduced his largest headline gig ever at Gunnersbury Park, London on Saturday tenth August 2024.

Busted

Busted will likely be happening tour in the summertime of 2024, beginning on seventeenth Could in Marlow and persevering with all through the summer time till thirty first August in Scarborough.

Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake has introduced a number of dates within the UK as a part of ‘The Neglect Tomorrow’ world tour. He will likely be enjoying Birmingham, Manchester and London in August 2024.

Jess Glynne – ‘Summer season 2024’

Jess Glynne has introduced outside dates for summer time 2024. The singer will begin in June 2024 in Scarborough and carry out throughout England and Wales, ending in London in August.

Becky Hill – Enviornment tour 2024

Becky Hill has introduced 9 UK dates for her first area tour in 2024. They happen in October 2024.

Dua Lipa

Dua Lipa has introduced a one-off gig on the Royal Albert Corridor in London on seventeenth October, the place followers can count on her to carry out lots of the new songs from her album ‘Radical Optimism’.

Scooter

‘Leaping All Over The World’ legends Scooter are heading across the UK and Eire on their thirtieth anniversary tour – titled ‘Thirty, Tough and Soiled’. Dates happen in October and November.

Charli XCX

Charli XCX has introduced 4 additional dates for her ‘BRAT’ UK tour, with particular visitor Shygirl. The singer, identified for hits reminiscent of ‘Growth Clap’, and ‘Pace Drive’ from the Barbie film, will likely be performing in Manchester, London, Birmingham and Glasgow.

Usher

Usher has introduced a number of dates within the UK in March, April and Could 2025. Tickets are actually on sale for all dates.

Craig David

Craig David will likely be happening tour in February 2025, with particular visitor Lemar. The singer has introduced a collection of dates throughout the UK, together with Leeds, Glasgow, Newcastle and plenty of extra.

Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish has introduced her ‘Hit Me Onerous and Tender: The Tour’ will likely be coming to the UK in July 2025. Billie will likely be performing 12 dates throughout Glasgow, London and Manchester.

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Al Nassr vs Al Hilal Highlights, Saudi Pro League 2023-24: Al Hilal snatches late equaliser against Al Nassr as Ronaldo misfires

Al Nassr will face Champion Al Hilal within the Saudi Professional League 2023-24 on Friday on the Al-Awwal Stadium in Riyadh.

Al Hilal, which misplaced Neymar Junior to damage in October, beat bottom-placed Al Hazm 4-1 final week, to go an unbeatable 12 factors away from Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al Nassr with three matches remaining.

The title sealed a formidable marketing campaign by Al Hilal, which is unbeaten in 31 league matches and put collectively a run of 34 consecutive wins in all competitions.

Al Nassr survived a second-half scare to beat Al Akhdoud 3-2 in its earlier match within the league, because of a Marcelo Brozovic brace mixed with a objective from Ronaldo.

The 39-year-old Portuguese has 33 objectives this season, seven greater than Al Hilal’s Aleksandar Mitrovic in second. He’s one objective shy of equalling Moroccan Abderrazak Hamdallah’s file for probably the most objectives scored by a participant in a single season (34).

As a Shetland fan, I thought I’d try Rebus and I love it

Lacking Shetland? I do know I’m. Ever since Douglas Henshall first performed DI Jimmy Perez within the hit Scottish sequence method again in 2013, I’ve liked the combination of drama, stunning surroundings, very good mysteries and nice appearing. It even managed to neatly survive the lack of its main man, with Ashley Jensen taking on detecting duties within the newest sequence.

However we’ve got a protracted look ahead to Shetland season 9, which brings us to Rebus, BBC One’s new Scottish drama primarily based on the hit books by Ian Rankin.

Ashley Jensen and Alison O’Donnell in Shetland (Picture credit score: BBC)

I am sufficiently old to recollect the earlier ITV model, with John Hannah taking part in the character within the first sequence. Nonetheless, he stop the half after only one sequence and Ken Stott gave a efficiency extra acquainted to individuals who benefit from the books.

Now, Richard Rankin is taking part in a younger Rebus and superficially at the very least the sequence has quite a bit in frequent with Shetland. Each make the most of the fabulous Scottish surroundings, with Rebus profiting from its Edinburgh setting.

Younger Rebus additionally is not 1,000,000 miles away for DI Jimmy Perez. Each have a daughter and each love a brooding digicam shot. Each males are additionally alone. Whereas Perez’s spouse died, Rebus is divorced. One distinction is Perez is considerably calmer than hot-headed Rebus!

Within the opening scene, Rebus is in a automotive crash after being rammed off the street by his arch nemesis Ger Cafferty (Stuart Bowman). Rebus finds Cafferty in an ambulance and proceeds to beat him up so badly he nearly kills the criminal. Not lengthy later, we see Rebus thumping his brother Michael after a jibe about his failed marriage.

Rebus and Siobhan Clarke shortly set up an awesome cop partnership (Picture credit score: BBC)

Like Shetland, there’s lots to get pleasure from right here. Rankin makes for a convincing Rebus, with simply the right combination of appeal and hostility. He will get some good traces too. When he is requested to indicate the ropes to his beginner cop associate, Siobhan Clarke, he quips: “There isn’t any ropes, they went out with the final finances reduce”.

Later seasons of Shetland created a narrative arc over the entire sequence, reasonably than a weekly case for the cop to unravel, and Rebus follows this.

Rebus finds himself in the course of a drug battle in Edinburgh. Simply as Perez bonded with Alison “Tosh” McIntosh in Shetland, we see Rebus shortly forming a formidable group with Clarke.

Like Shetland, Rebus reveals that behind the floor great thing about the situation, there’s loads of darkness and villains lurking. There’s marginally extra violence and unhealthy language in Rebus.

Rebus is massively satisfying and, if you happen to’re lacking your fill of Shetland, you will not be dissatisfied.

Slovakia PM Robert Fico in ‘very serious’ condition after being shot | News

Inside minister says suspect charged with tried homicide is ‘lone wolf’ who had joined anti-government protests.

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is steady however his situation stays “very critical”, his deputy has mentioned, after an assassination try that shocked the nation and drew world condemnation.

Fico, 59, was shot 5 instances within the central city of Handlova on Wednesday after he left a authorities assembly. He was in crucial situation and underwent a number of hours of emergency surgical procedure.

“Through the evening, docs managed to stabilise the affected person’s situation,” Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak mentioned on Thursday.

“Sadly, the situation continues to be very critical because the accidents are sophisticated,” mentioned Kalinak, who can also be the defence minister.

Miriam Lapunikova, the director of the FD Roosevelt College Hospital in Banska Bystrica the place Fico was being handled, mentioned he “had a number of gunshot wounds, the results of which is able to have an effect on his restoration”.

“At this level, his situation has stabilised, however it’s actually very critical, and subsequently he’ll stay within the intensive care unit,” she added.

In a while Thursday, President-elect Peter Pellegrini, who gained election in April, mentioned he had spoken with Fico.

“He is ready to converse however only some sentences after which he’s actually drained as a result of he’s on some treatment,” he advised reporters.

The alleged attacker, a 71-year-old author and former safety guard, has been charged with tried homicide, mentioned Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler, reporting from Bankska Bystrica.

Inside Minister Matus Sutaj Estok advised a information convention that the suspect had acted alone and had beforehand taken half in anti-government protests.

“It is a lone wolf who had radicalised himself … after the presidential election,” he mentioned, referring to the vote gained by Pellegrini.

“Slovak police are working with a single model of the assault and the suspect is charged with tried homicide with premeditation,” Sutaj Estok advised reporters, including that the assault was “politically motivated”.

President Zuzana Caputova referred to as for a chilled of political tensions and mentioned she would invite all parliamentary celebration leaders for a joint assembly.

“Let’s step out of the vicious circle of hatred and mutual accusations,” she mentioned on Thursday. “What occurred yesterday was a person act however the tense ambiance of hatred has been our collective work.”

Pellegrini referred to as on all events to droop or cut back campaigning earlier than the European Parliament elections scheduled for June.

A person is arrested after Slovak PM Robert Fico was shot a number of instances, in Handlova, Slovakia [File: Radovan Stoklasa/Reuters]

Following the assault, Fico was rushed to a hospital in Handlova however was quickly transferred by helicopter to the regional capital, Banska Bystrica, for pressing remedy.

Reacting to the incident, Russia mentioned it thought-about the assault “completely unacceptable”.

“That is actually a terrific tragedy,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov mentioned on Thursday.

Fico’s European counterparts, together with Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, condemned the taking pictures and wished him an entire restoration.

The nation of 5.4 million has seen polarised political debate in recent times, together with final yr’s presidential election that helped Fico tighten his grip on energy.

Since returning as prime minister final October, his authorities has scaled again help for Ukraine whereas opening up dialogue with Russia, seemed to reduce punishments for corruption, and is revamping the RTVS public broadcaster regardless of a name to guard media freedoms.

Fico is Slovakia’s longest-serving political chief and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Is Rebus returning for season 2? Speculation and news

“It is full-on,” he added in an unique interview with RadioTimes.com. “At sure factors, some viewers may even say it is barely harrowing. There’s an terrible lot of visceral stuff occurring. It is nice.”

The detective drama has received over critics, although, with our evaluation calling it “a contemporary spin on the long-running franchise”, whereas we additionally declare it is “far more than a criminal offense drama”, praising its deal with telling “a narrative about household, no matter type that will take, and regardless of the calls for our household, chosen or in any other case, place on us”.

In case you’ve already raced by means of all six episodes, you may need to know if Richard Rankin is ready to reprise his function because the troubled Scottish detective sergeant – particularly given the season finale, which teased additional episodes.

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Who might he be joined by in one other instalment? And what does screenwriter Gregory Burke have up his sleeve?

Learn on for all the things you have to learn about a possible Rebus season 2.

Is Rebus returning for season 2?

There’s presently no phrase on the way forward for the crime thriller.

Nonetheless, author Gregory Burke has spoken in regards to the pleasure he will get from working with creator Ian Rankin, saying: “The good benefit was, the very first thing Ian mentioned to me was, ‘You are able to do something you need.’

“As quickly as I got here up with the brother storyline and what he was going to be doing, Ian instantly mentioned, ‘I like that. I missed a trick with that within the books.’ He was supportive of me all the way in which, and he actually simply let me get on with it.”

With the mastermind behind the franchise exhibiting such assist, we count on there will likely be a push to proceed growing these tales – however for now, that is pure hypothesis.

As quickly as now we have any info, we’ll replace this web page.

When might a possible Rebus season 2 air?

If season 2 does get the nod, we would not count on it to reach till 2025 at the least – probably from the second quarter onwards.

As for precisely when, your guess is nearly as good as ours.

Who might return in a possible Rebus season 2?

Rebus. Eleventh Hour Movies/Mark Mainz

If renewed for a second run, alongside Richard Rankin as John Rebus, different characters we might count on to return are:

  • Brian Ferguson as Michael Rebus
  • Stuart Bowman as Ger Cafferty
  • Lucie Shorthouse as DC Siobhan Clarke
  • Amy Manson as Rhona Moncrieffe
  • Mia McKenzie as Sammy
  • Neshla Caplan as Chrissie Rebus
  • Caroline Lee Johnson as DI Gill Templer
  • Thoren Ferguson as Malcolm Fox, Skilled Requirements
  • Noof Ousellam as Darryl Christie
  • Michelle Duncan as Maggie Blantyre

There have been a lot of deaths in season 1, together with Rhona’s husband Lockie (Nick Rhys), who was shot lifeless in his own residence (extra on that later), so we would not count on to see him return.

We might count on to see some new faces, additionally.

What might occur in a possible Rebus season 2?

Rebus. Eleventh Hour Movies/Mark Mainz

The primary instalment wrapped up on a sombre word – with the door left open for a second season.

Rebus has acquired his household again, however not in the way in which he had hoped after Lockie was murdered by a masked gunman, who shot him instantly after he opened his entrance door.

Earlier than the assault, the fund supervisor, who was concerned in some dodgy dealings of his personal, had threatened to take all of Darryl’s cash after the businessman/gangster had misplaced a few of Lockie’s money.

However as you’d count on, Darryl did not take kindly to being threatened and a short while later, Rhona’s husband was murdered.

In the meantime, Michael Rebus is on the run. He was going at hand himself in, however his spouse Chrissie inspired him to take the drug cash he stole from Cafferty and flee.

However staying hidden is less complicated mentioned than accomplished when large Ger is out for blood. Michael additionally shot lifeless the nephew of Northern Irish gangster Billy Cochrane, who has hyperlinks to the Ulster Defence Affiliation, which implies they’re going to need revenge additionally – which locations everybody in Michael’s life in peril.

Is there a trailer for a possible Rebus season 2?

First up, we want that all-important renewal.

If it does get the inexperienced mild, the trailers will probably arrive within the month main as much as the premiere.

Rebus arrived on Friday seventeenth Could. All episodes can be found to observe now on BBC iPlayer.

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