Our Preakness Profile of Risk Taking includes facts and figs, GQ’s analysis, recent race videos, photos, and the latest news.
Crowded Trade, Risk Taking, and Unbridled Honor – all New York-based runners from powerful barns – had their final pre-Preakness moves Saturday.
Withers winner Risk Taking, seventh as the favorite in the Wood Memorial, will make his next start in the Preakness, trainer Chad Brown said.
The first NTRA Top Thoroughbred Polls of 2021 are out, and the Brad Cox barn has seized the top spot in both the 3yo poll and that of older horses.
Risk Taking won the Withers, while Candy Man Rocket took the Sam F. Davis, both horses earning 10 points on the Kentucky Derby trail.