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Originally Posted by Sightseek
2006 - Bernardini wins the Preakness - Jazil wins the Belmont - I think that says enough about the quality of those two races. The horses who skipped the Preakness were Bob and John and Steppenwolfer - hardly exuding with class
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Bernardini was a longshot in the Preakness, having won only a four-horse edition of the Withers. The rest of the Preakness field was so bad that Hemingway's Key ran third.
Both the second, third and fourth place horses from the Derby (Bluegrass Cat, Steppenwolfer and Jazil) skipped the Preakness to run in the Belmont.