Preakness Stakes 2024: The annual horse race held in Baltimore, Maryland at Pimlico Race Course begins Saturday
BALTIMORE, Maryland — The Preakness Stakes can have a Triple Crown chance on the road when Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan runs in a discipline of eight horses on Saturday within the 149th rendition of the race.
Mystik Dan is the favourite and received the Derby by a nostril within the race’s closest end since 1947. Bob Baffert-trained Creativeness and Brad Cox’s Catching Freedom look like essentially the most formidable challenges within the second leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown. Muth, who opened as the favourite, was scratched Wednesday due to a fever.
When is the race?
Publish time for the Preakness is 7:01 p.m. Japanese on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
What is the forecast?
Rain showers from the early morning via the afternoon hours Saturday, which may make for a sloppy, muddy observe. It is anticipated to be about 60 levels Fahrenheit (16 levels Celsius) when the horses depart the beginning gate.
What to observe
The Preakness has lengthy been simply as a lot a celebration as an American traditional race. The infield, a scene that varies from Kentucky Derby-esque with fancy clothes, hats and cocktails to a live performance stage and meals and beer stands, can even have a post-race efficiency by Jack Harlow.
Who’re the favorites?
Muth, who was ineligible to run within the Derby due to Churchill Downs’ ban on Baffert, was put in because the 8-5 favourite however was withdrawn after a 103 diploma F (40 diploma C) fever this week.
Mystik Dan, initially the 5-2 second alternative, figures to turn into the favourite with Creativeness and Catching Freedom, who has been feisty on the observe this week, not far behind after every opening at 6-1.
What does the winner get?
The purse was upped this 12 months to $2 million from $1.5 million, with the winner additionally taking dwelling the Woodlawn Vase.
Go deeper
Horse racing continues to attempt to discover options to a spate of deaths that surprised the game final 12 months, together with one skilled by Baffert who died at Pimlico hours earlier than Nationwide Treasure gave him a record-breaking eighth Preakness victory.
The game is at a crossroads due to security questions and with reforms already underway, and Pimlico and Belmont Park are being torn down and rebuilt within the coming years as state-of-the-art services. And whereas racing is making an attempt to adapt to the trendy period with smaller tracks, viewership remains to be sturdy for the large days, together with the most important TV viewers for the Kentucky Derby in 35 years.
These viewers watching from afar or at Churchill Downs noticed jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. ship a flawless, rail-skimming experience to get Mystik Dan to the end line simply forward of Sierra Leone and Perpetually Younger. He’ll search for a second victory in a Triple Crown race again aboard within the Preakness.
That is the ultimate Preakness earlier than an enormous, $400 million Pimlico reconstruction undertaking begins early subsequent 12 months. The race can be held in Baltimore once more subsequent 12 months in no matter state the observe is in earlier than transferring to Laurel Park in 2026 with a return to Pimlico scheduled for 2027.
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