Perry Hall Horse Trainer Enters Horse In Preakness

PERRY HALL, MD — A Perry Hall horse trainer is hoping his racehorse will live up to his name at this weekend's Preakness Stakes.

Mike Trombetta has been working with 3-year-old Win Win Win, whose moniker will be put to the test at Pimlico Race Course.

They will travel from the stables at Fair Hill Training Center in Elkton to Baltimore on Thursday, May 16, ahead of the 144th running of the Preakness Stakes.

While the second jewel of the Triple Crown is shaping up to be a "tough race," Trombetta told The Baltimore Sun that he believes his horse "deserves a chance" and is "doing well."

Win Win Win will be in the 13th post position for the Preakness, officials announced on Wednesday.

He is the second horse Trombetta will have run in the competition. The last Preakness contender he trained was Sweetnorthernsaint in 2006.

"To be a Marylander and to have had a competitive horse in the Preakness is a very, very special thing," he told Horse Racing Nation, though he noted that the horse in that case was "high-strung and difficult" despite his nickname of "The Saint."

Win Win Win ran in the Kentucky Derby on May 4 and wound up coming in ninth after what Trombetta said was a "hard trip" with "tough circumstances," according to The Blood Horse. The track was sloppy and wet, and he joked that it took two days to clean his horse afterward.

Trombetta trains 100 horses at Fair Hill, Laurel Park and at Gulfstream Park in Florida, according to the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association.

Following in his father's footsteps led Trombetta, who is now 53, to horse racing, the association reported. His father was a horse owner, and Trombetta became a "hot walker" at the age of 15, walking horses to cool them off after their workouts. He moved on to become a groom at Pimlico and Timonium before emerging as a nationally recognized trainer.