PREAKNESS STAKES
When: May 16
Where: Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore
Distance: 1 3/16 miles.
Probable entries: Derby winner Mine That Bird will run if he is healthy, as will fourth-place Derby finisher Papa Clem. Trainer Todd Pletcher said Take the Points, the fourth-place finisher in the Santa Anita Derby, also will run.
Possible entries: Derby horses Pioneerof The Nile (second), Musket Man (third) and Join in the Dance (seventh) are being considered. Other possible Preakness starters are Big Drama, winner of the Swale Stakes; Mr. Fantasy, winner of the Withers Stakes; and Miner's Escape, winner of Pimlico's Federico Tesio.
RACHEL BLOUNT
