‘Big Test’ for Street Lute in $150,000 Miss Preakness

Lucky 7 Stables’ Street Lute, already a six-time stakes winner from just nine starts, will make the jump to graded-stakes competition for the first time in the $150,000 Miss Preakness (G3) Friday, May 14 at Pimlico Race Course.

The 36th running of the six-furlong Miss Preakness for 3-year-old fillies is one of six stakes, four graded, worth $1 million in purses during a spectacular 14-race card on the eve of the 146th Preakness Stakes (G1), headlined by the 97th running of the $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) for 3-year-old fillies.

Other graded stakes on the program are the historic $250,000 Pimlico Special (G3) for 3-year-olds and up at the Preakness distance of 1 3/16 miles and $150,000 Allaire du Pont (G3) for fillies and mares 3 and up going 1 1/8 miles. Rounding out the stakes action are a pair of turf events, the $100,000 Hilltop for 3-year-old fillies at one mile, and $100,000 The Very One, a five-furlong dash for females 3 and older.

First race post time is 11:30 a.m.

Street Lute had won five consecutive stakes from mid-November to late February at six or seven furlongs before having her streak snapped when running third as the favorite in the one-mile Beyond the Wire March 13 at Laurel Park. She cuts back to a distance where she has won twice in three attempts – the 2020 Smart Halo and Jan. 16 Xtra Heat.

Street Lute has made her last seven starts in Maryland, all at Laurel. Despite never having raced at Pimlico, the Street Magician’s last three works have come over the main track including five furlongs in 59.40 seconds April 28 and a half-mile in 46.80 May 7.