FIRST LADY DON MOORE AND RECORD PRODUCER D-NICE SAT DOWN WITH OUR MEGAN RIVERS TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT. THE INAUGURAL PREAKNESS FESTIVAL IS COMING TO BALTIMORE. FIRST LADY DON MOORE, SO THANKFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE TODAY.

The 2025 Preakness Stakes takes place this Saturday, May 17, at 4 PM ET on NBC and Peacock. Saturday’s race not only marks the 150th edition of the event, but it will be the final event at the historic Pimlico Race Course as demolition is expected to begin in June, part of the facility’s $400 million redevelopment.

BALTIMORE — Mark Casse was not a Metallica guy until he began training Sandman. Now he is a big fan. The band has returned the favor. Front man James Hetfield met the horse at Churchill Downs before the Kentucky Derby, and he and the rest of Metallica filmed a video for Casse and Co. wishing Sandman well in the Preakness this weekend.

Is there any feature worthy of nostalgia at the version of Pimlico Race Course that’s about to host the Preakness Stakes for the final time before the broken-down Baltimore landmark is razed and replaced?

The wrecking ball is coming to Pimlico Race Course, a long-awaited demolition of the dilapidated racetrack that opened in 1870.

To spread out the three Triple Crown races? Switch the order of them? Let horses run on a two-week turnaround?

It might be the homeliest venue anywhere hosting a major sporting event. But there's much to love about Pimlico.

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