Animal Kingdom arrives at Pimlico

Kentucky Derby (G1) winner ANIMAL KINGDOM (Leroidesanimaux [Brz]) completed

his journey to the Preakness S. (G1) at 6:45 a.m. (EDT) Saturday, just under 12

hours before he will compete in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown at historic

Pimlico Race Course.

Post time for the 136th running of the Preakness is 6:20 p.m.

Led by assistant trainer Dave Rock, the Team Valor International colt stepped

off the horse van that carried him the 60 miles from his home at Fair Hill

Training Center in Elkton, Maryland, to the Preakness Stakes Barn at Pimlico.

Animal Kingdom walked the shedrow before being led into Stall 40, the

traditional home of Kentucky Derby winners during their stay at Pimlico.

Trainer Graham Motion shipped the chestnut colt from Churchill Downs to Fair

Hill on May 10 and opted to keep him at the quiet, rural facility northeast of

Baltimore until Preakness morning. Motion's contingent of  seven horses

entered in races on the Preakness program left Fair Hill at 5:32  a.m.

Animal Kingdom was the only horse on the second van.

The two Preakness runners based at the Bowie Training Center, NORMAN

ASBJORNSON (Real Quiet) and CONCEALED IDENTITY (Smarty Jones), arrived at

Pimlico in separate vans between 5:30 and 6 a.m.