Preakness Week 2012
Baltimore Sun photographer Kim Hairston spent the week at Pimlico Race Course covering the horses preparing for this weekend’s Preakness Stakes. Here are some of our favorite outtakes.
- Riders and horses workout on the track as the sun rises over Pimlico Race Course Thursday morning. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
- Bodemeister works out with George Alvarez Friday morning on the track at Pimlico Race Course. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
- A fox visits the track at Pimlico Race Course during an early morning workout. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
- Exercise rider Zeke Castro (left) on Went the Day Well talks with trainer Graham Motion as they walk the track at Pimlico Race Course following a morning exercise session. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
- I’ll Have Another stands outside the barn at Pimlico Race Course after a workout on Friday morning. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
- D. Wayne Lucas talks about Optimizer, the horse he is training for Saturday’s Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
- Shelley Forbes-Eford, Baltimore, wears a hat created by Marjae Hicks, owner of See the Difference/Hats by Marjae in Westminster. The hat is called “Springtime.” She is at Pimlico Race Course where hats will be plentiful tomorrow at the Preakness. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
- Bodemeister will run in the 137th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday.(Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
- Bodemeister gets a bath after a workout at Pimlico Race Course in preparation for the Preakness Stakes on Saturday. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
- Riders walk their horses on the track during Friday morning workouts at Pimlico Race Course. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
- Exercise rider George Alvarez takes Bodemeister on a morning workout at Pimlico Thursday. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
- Exercise rider Johnny Garcia controls Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another (left) as Sabas Rivera, assistant trainer, on Lava Man, lends a hand as they leave the track after a workout Friday morning at Pimlico Race Course in preparation for the 137th Preakness Stakes on Saturday. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
- Steam rises from Bodemeister as he is bathed Friday morning after a workout at Pimlico Race Course in preparation for the Preakness Stakes. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
- Riders take their horse for a Friday morning workout on the track at Pimlico Race Course. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
wayne curry
May 20, 2012 @ 09:32:21
i opened the sports page this morning in the lexington hearld, lexington, ky, and fell in love with the picture by lloyd fox.
i am an amature painter, and would like mr. foxes approval to paint this picture. it wouldn’t be sold, and never copied.
thank you.
wayne curry