Jose Ortiz won his first Preakness Stakes (G1) with Early Voting, the rider’s second win in a Triple Crown race.

Team Hanley and Parkland Thoroughbreds’ Joy’s Rocket looked like a winner all the way around historic Pimlico Race Course May 21 during a dominant 4 1/4-length triumph in the $100,000 Skipat Stakes over six furlongs.

Seth Klarman won his second Preakness (G1) in five years with Early Voting. He and partner William Lawrence won the second jewel of the Triple Crown in 2017 with Cloud Computing.

Driving from sixth to third at the sixteenth pole was Cellist, the 4-year-old gelding trained by Rusty Arnold, who pulled into first in the stretch and held off Reigning Spirit to cross the wire first in the $200,000 Louisville Stakes (G3T).

Klaravich Stables’ Early Voting pressed the early pace, took over on the second turn, and withstood an inside rally from favored Epicenter to win the $1.5 million Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico Race Course May 21.

The absence of the Fred Darling winner means that James Ferguson’s Mise En Scene and Purplepay are the only British raiders, with ante-post market leaders Tuesday and Homeless Songs set to take their place in the €500,000 group 1 event.

There have been some slightly underwhelming editions of the Tattersalls Gold Cup (G1) in recent years but the 2022 running looks a cracking race featuring five group 1 winners and a classy Royal Ascot group 2 scorer to boot.

Ethereal Road, whose scratch from the May 7 Kentucky Derby (G1) cleared an opening for also-eligible Rich Strike to race and score an upset, picked up a consolation prize May 21 by capturing the $100,000 Sir Barton Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.

Team Hanley and Parkland Thoroughbreds’ Joy’s Rocket looked like a winner all the way around historic Pimlico Race Course May 21 during a dominant 4 1/4-length triumph in the $100,000 Skipat Stakes over six furlongs.

Maryland-bred Jaxon Traveler, a son of top sire Munnings, wired the field in the grade 3 Maryland Sprint Stakes; Lea Farms’ Lightening Larry pulled off a 12-1 upset in the $200,000 Chick Lang Stakes (G3) for 3-year-olds.