Preakness Stakes Jockey, Nik Juarez, riding for D Wayne Lukas on American Promise, visited Thomas Walkler’s students during Advisory period on Wednesday morning at Winters Mill High School.

The 150th running of the Preakness Stakes takes place Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, with a lineup consisting of three Kentucky Derby runners-up and a remaining field of unknown entities and potential surprise winners.

After a scary 2011 accident left him with 24 broken bones and led to five weeks in a coma, jockey Raul Mena will race in the 2025 Preakness.

Goes for 89-year-old trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who won last year’s Preakness with Seize the Grey. It’s not likely to happen again. This colt was done in by sizzling early fractions in the Derby and staggered home 16th, beaten by 38 lengths. Appears to be more of the same on Saturday.

This will be the final horse race at the track ahead of demolition and a major reconstruction project, which will impact Pimlico and the surrounding Park Heights neighborhood.

American Promise is set to be Lukas’ 49th Preakness horse over 34 renditions of the race since winning his first try back in 1980 with Codex. If American Promise gets the job done, it will give Lukas an eighth Preakness victory and tie Baffert for the record.

This is the story of an obscure big-league baseball journeyman from a half-century ago and the Preakness Stakes (G1) horse that bears his name. Jim Gosger is the former ballplayer, now an 82-year-old Michigan man who bounced around the Majors in the ‘60s and ‘70s with six different clubs,

Saturday will come soon enough. The horses are not the only game in town. The Orioles, for example, are well toward the rear of the American League East, but there is still enough time to rally and get nose-to-nose and belly-to-belly against the two cities Baltimore loves to put in its place: New York and Boston.

The wrecking ball is just about hovering over Pimlico Race Course, with a complete knockdown and rebuild of the grandstand and other facilities coming.

Baltimore Sun reporter Sam Cohn got firsthand knowledge of how to ride a horse from Maryland-based jockey Sheldon Russell and his wife.