iPhone News Updated

Preakness app for your iPhone, Android & BlackBerry

Preakness app for your iPhone, Android & BlackBerry

Good news, Preakness fans:

The Maryland Jockey Club has caught up with the times and is offering a smartphone app for the Preakness experience. The free app, available now in the Apple App Store and soon to come for Android and BlackBerry, appears to be a mix of native app design and a simple re-display of parts of the Preakness.com website.

One feature that’s pretty cool is the event schedule, which seems to integrate with your phone’s camera and allows you to post to Twitter and Facebook. It’ll be a useful tool to have handy for those who are spending the day at Preakness, on May 21st. Also, the detailed map of Pimlico is another good feature.

And for non-expert bettors (like me) who’ve never wagered at a racetrack before, I also like the “What to say at the window.” Also, the explanation of the types of wagers is super-helpful for us novices. I always wondered what an “Exacta” was.

Hopefully, as the Preakness approaches, the MJC will fill in more information about the jockeys and horses. This is a great and easy way for people to learn all the faces, characters and horses before the big race. There’s a lot you can do with this content, by the way, such as encouraging people to post on their favorite jockeys and/or horses to Facebook and Twitter.

The app includes video clips from racing at Pimlico. It would be cool if the video offerings included little clips of the Preakness horses and their jockeys, as the event approaches.

[Thanks: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com]

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