Preparations are underway in Saratoga Springs to host the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival again starting on June 4. NEWS10’s Cassie Hudson spoke with community members to find out how lessons learned last year are impacting this year’s planning.

The old Pimlico — some writers have called it America’s worst major sporting event venue — will take its final bow at the 2025 Preakness.

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

Journalism may be in the record books as the seventh straight beaten favorite in the Kentucky Derby (G1), but that doesn't mean trainer Michael McCarthy has lost any faith in his grade 1-winning 3-year-old colt.

The son of Quality Road earned his first graded stakes victory and a spot in the Belmont Stakes on June 7 at Saratoga Springs.

Preakness Stakes will go on without its biggest name when the horses take to the starting gates in 2025. Sovereignty, the Kentucky Derby winner, will skip the May 17 race at Pimlico, ending hopes for a Triple Crown run.

Fabulous Notion is also half sister to Cacoethes, a top-class son of Alydar, who won the Turf Classic Invitational Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park and the King Edward VII Stakes (G2) in England, and who also gave the mighty Nashwan a scare in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes (G1). Other half siblings to Fabulous Notion include: