Trends Reviews and Recaps

Around here, meaning Philadelphia, we’re starting to get some serious respect lately -- and for all sorts of reasons, not least of which is the area’s growing clout in the horse-racing world, to wit: the victory in today’s 130th running of the Preakness Stakes at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore of local horse Afleet Alex.

(For more about the future of the Preakness and Pimlico, see “Don’t Put Money on Tradition,” by Bob Ford in Saturday’s Philadelphia Inquirer.)