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Preakness: Triple Crown Wagering



The second leg of the Triple Crown is run on Saturday with the 133rd Preakness Stakes from Pimlico Race track in Baltimore, Maryland.

At 1-3/16 miles, the Preakness is 1/16 of a mile shorter than the Kentucky Derby.

Sportsbook.com will house all the action for Saturday’s event, so stay tuned to the live odds and horse racing news pages for the latest, then settle in for one of the most exciting minutes in all of sports as the horses bolt from the gates at 6:15 PM Eastern Time.

Now here’s more on the field for the race.

The eyes of racing are squarely focused on Big Brown as he will put his unbeaten streak on the line, and attempt to keep his Triple Crown hopes alive, when he faces 12 rivals in the Preakness.

Pimlico is the track where two years ago Barbaro, that year's Derby winner, fractured his right hind leg in the Preakness. It will be against that backdrop that Big Brown will step onto the track, and he’s a heavy 1:3 favorite to pick up the first prize of $600,000 from the $1 million purse.

Big Brown has won all four of his starts by a combined 33 3/4 lengths, the smallest margin being the 4 3/4 lengths by which he won the Derby. Of the 19 horses Big Brown faced at Churchill Downs, only Gayego, who finished 17th, is here for a rematch. The other 11 Preakness runners all bypassed the Derby.

This will be the first and probably only time that Big Brown, a son of Boundary, will have to race on just two weeks rest. For Big Brown to lose, he’ll have to regress significantly from his Derby performance, and one of his rivals will have to run the race of his life.

Gayego (10:1), who won the Arkansas Derby before his poor try in the Kentucky Derby, returned to California, then shipped here on Wednesday. But that trip is not nearly as bad as what he encountered in the Derby.

Kentucky Bear (10:1) was third in the Blue Grass Stakes in his last start. He entered the Derby, but was not among the top 20 horses in terms of earnings in graded stakes races, so he was one of four excluded from the race. However, he has trained sensationally in recent weeks.

Behindatthebar (7:1) won the Lexington Stakes at Keeneland in his last start. He is 3 for 4 on synthetic surfaces, but was fifth against a weak field in his lone try on dirt, in the El Camino Real Derby at Bay Meadows.

By contrast, Yankee Bravo (20:1) turned in one of his best races in his lone try on dirt, when third in the Louisiana Derby. He was fourth in the Santa Anita Derby in his last start.

Hey Byrn (25:1) finished 15 3/4 lengths behind Big Brown in the Florida Derby, then won the Holy Bull Stakes. His owner, Bea Oxenberg, was to celebrate her 87th birthday on Friday.

Riley Tucker (20:1) was third and Racecar Rhapsody (40:1) fourth in the Lexington.

Macho Again (25:1) won the Derby Trial in his last start, but was easily-beaten in his two previous tries around two turns.

Tres Borrachos (40:1) was third in the Arkansas Derby, 4 3/4 lengths behind Gayego.

Icabad Crane (25:1) won the Federico Tesio Stakes here on April 19th, making him the only horse in the Preakness with a race, and a win, over this track.

Giant Moon (40:1) won his first four starts, but has lost two straight, including a fourth-place finish most recently in the Wood Memorial.

Stevil (25:1) was fourth in the Blue Grass, his fifth straight loss following a debut win against maidens.

A crowd of more than 100,000 is expected to stuff itself into Pimlico. They might have to dodge a few raindrops. Thunderstorms and rain were forecast for Friday, according to Weather.com, and there was a 30% chance of lingering showers for Saturday, with a high of 73 degrees.

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