It’s Preakness Stakes day and it’s raining in Baltimore. Here are your Saturday morning updated odds.
The day has finally come and it’s a rainy one at that. In a few short hours, eight horses will run the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Park in Baltimore, Maryland. For seven of them, they’ll be racing for a share of $1.5 million purse and a garland of (fake) black-eyed Susans. For one, Kentucky Derby winner Justify, it will be a race to keep dreams of a Triple Crown title alive.
Justify is the favorite, and a little rain certainly shouldn’t stop him, given how he won the Derby in historically sloppy conditions. However, his No. 2 at the 2018 Derby, Good Magic — currently at 3-1- odds — is also good in mud, so it could come down to a photo finish for the two of them once again.
Here is the field for the 2018 Preakness Stakes, in order of post position and with Saturday morning’s line.
- Quip (12-1)
- Lone Sailor (15-1)
- Sporting Chance (30-1)
- Diamond King (30-1)
- Good Magic (3-1)
- Tenfold (20-1)
- Justify (1-2)
- Bravazo (20-1)
Of course, everything that made Justify and Good Magic so dominating at the Derby could be their undoing. Horses have a brutal two-week turnaround between Louisville and Baltimore, and Justify has been nursing a hoof injury too.
With 12-1 odds, Quip is one expert’s favorite to pull off an upset. Quip didn’t race the Derby, specifically to rest and prepare for the Preakness. That said, shared ownership with Justify leads some to conspiratorial believe he’s being overhyped.
The true long shot upset pick? Bravazo (20-1) or even Sporting Chance (30-1). Sporting Chance is a fun one, but certainly high-risk, high-reward — he has a problem “getting out of his own way” and sometimes refuses to race. Bravazo, on the other hand, has been consistently outperforming in races and his trainer has six Preakness victories to his name.
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