Preakness Stakes Betting - Can Anyone Challenge Big Brown?

[Shame About Ray]

Like a hammer, it came down hard onto the collective heads of BetUS racebook and online betting fans everywhere. First, the news that Recapturetheglory, a tremendously gifted animal out of the Louis Roussel barn and one of the top sports betting contenders to take down the seemingly invincible Big Brown, had developed a fever and, therefore, would not make it to the gate in the Preakness Stakes. Then, the other news came. Harlem Rocker, perhaps the only horse capable of challenging the “now” super-horse Big Brown in the Preakness Stakes, was not going to run.

Harlem Rocker had everything going for him, an undefeated record, a style suited to the tight turns of the Pimlico Racecourse, and the best trainer in the nation in Todd Pletcher. Oh, well. His connections have obviously drunk the Big Brown Kool-Aid like everyone else in the horse racing world.

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