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Gotham winner Iron Honor is the tepid Preakness favorite, surprising his trainer, and Incredibolt is entered, surprising everyone else.
Gun Runner Stakes winner Chip Honcho, whose 49 points put him squarely in the Kentucky Derby starting gate, will skip that race and await the Preakness.
Colonial Downs’s leading rider Ben Curtis won’t be in New Kent Saturday. Instead he’ll be piloting Magnitude versus Sovereignty in the Travers.
Frost Free broke to the front and never looked back to win the Chick Lang Stakes on the Preakness undercard at Pimlico.
Track Phantom has won three straight, including two stakes, and will look to keep it rolling in Saturday’s Risen Star at the Fair Grounds.
On the morning after the Preakness Stakes, the connections of Mage, National Treasure, and others were considering whether to go to the Belmont.
Trainer Steve Asmussen will is slated to send out two sons of Gun Runner in the May 20 Preakness, Disarm and Red Route One.