Preakness weekend, which will be held this year at Laurel before a vastly reduced on-track audience of less than 5,000 while Pimlico undergoes refurbishment, kicks off Friday with a 14-race card highlighted by the $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2).

Echo Sound returned triumphant in the Miss Preakness (G3), and Play With Fire scored a stakes breakthrough in the Hilltop S. at Pimlico.

Godolphin owns the best three-year-old filly in the country in Good Cheer, and perhaps might have the best three-year-old filly at Pimlico on Friday in the $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) over 1 1/8 miles.

Three-year-old fillies are by definition in the spotlight on Black-Eyed Susan Day at Pimlico, including on the undercard.

Preakness Weekend commences in earnest Friday with six stakes races at Pimlico, anchored by the Black-Eyed Susan (G2) and Pimlico Special (G3).

Celebrity chef Bobby Flay is Royal Ascot-bound after his homebred Pizza Bianca justified 2-5 favoritism in Friday’s $100,000 Hilltop S. at Pimlico.

Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) star Pizza Bianca spices up Friday’s card at Pimlico, with the $100,000 Hilltop S. serving as her stepping stone to Royal Ascot.

Three-way finishes became a theme at Pimlico Friday, from the grassy The Very One S. and Hilltop S. to the Miss Preakness S. (G3) on dirt.

How do the Black-Eyed Susan S., Miss Preakness S. and Hill Top S. at Pimlico look?

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