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Old 05-08-2024, 06:20 AM
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[/b]COLOR="darkorange"]5/18: PREAKNESS STAKES, Pimlico, 9.5f[/color][/b]

Mystik Dan (McPeek/B. Hernandez)
Catching Freedom (Cox/Prat)
Muth (Baffert/J. Hernandez)
Imagination (Baffert/Dettori)
Copper Tax (Capuano/Torrealba)
Tuscan Gold (Brown/Gaffalione)
Uncle Heavy (Reid/Sanchez)
Seize the Grey (Lukas/J. Torres)
Just Steel (Lukas/Rosario)
Mugatu (Engler/Bravo)
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Old 05-08-2024, 06:33 AM
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PETER PAN

Antiquarian
Deterministic
Native Land
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The Wine Steward
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Lonesome Boy - Long Branch
Tuscan Gold - Preakness
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Tuscan Gold to Preakness..
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Catching Freedom a Preakness possible..
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Catching Freedom a Preakness possible..
This is great news. Is it too much to also ask for a rabbit from Chad or Brad to put pressure on the Baffert horses?
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Mystik Dan a Preakness starter..
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5/18: PREAKNESS STAKES, Pimlico, 9.5f

Mystik Dan (McPeek/Hernandez) ~ Probable
Muth (Baffert/)
Imagination (Baffert/Dettori)
Copper Tax (Capuano)
Tuscan Gold (Brown) ~ Entered Peter Pan
Uncle Heavy (Reid/Sanchez)
Seize the Grey (Lukas)
Just Steel (Lukas/Asmussen)
Mugatu (Engler/Bravo)
I am usually excited about betting an overlay in the Preakness and generally have a lot of success betting this race…but I’m underwhelmed here. Muth might be unstoppable. I did hit with Oxbow back during the Orb Derby year so maybe I’ll take a closer look at the Lukas horses. Hoping to see another horse or two added to this list to make things a little more interesting.

For Tuscan Gold, is the Peter Pan two turns this year since it’s not being run at Belmont?
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This is legitimately a sportsmanship issue and no way there are 18 horses having to bail on the Preakness because they didn't come out of the race well. McPeek and Lukas are acting like they have racehorses. Baffert's horses might be coming in fresh but he'd have no problem swinging around after two weeks as he's done it plenty of times before.

I'm gonna have to sit through Randy Moss running his mouth about changing the space between the races. Again. I still think Belinda's playing some sort of game after she couldn't move the Preakness to Laurel.
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Mystik Dan (McPeek/B. Hernandez)
Catching Freedom (Cox/Prat)
Muth (Baffert/J. Hernandez)
Imagination (Baffert/Dettori)
Tuscan Gold (Brown/Gaffalione)
Uncle Heavy (Reid/Sanchez)
Seize the Grey (Lukas/J. Torres)
Just Steel (Lukas/Rosario)
Mugatu (Engler/Bravo)

Preakness field. Go figure. Went from internet claim of ‘worst Preakness ever’ to arguably more interesting than Derby.
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Copper Tax won't enter Preakness..
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Mystik Dan (McPeek/B. Hernandez)
Catching Freedom (Cox/Prat)
Muth (Baffert/J. Hernandez)
Imagination (Baffert/Dettori)
Tuscan Gold (Brown/Gaffalione)
Uncle Heavy (Reid/Sanchez)
Seize the Grey (Lukas/J. Torres)
Just Steel (Lukas/Rosario)
Mugatu (Engler/Bravo)

Preakness field. Go figure. Went from internet claim of ‘worst Preakness ever’ to arguably more interesting than Derby.
Trying to figure the pace out here, Steve. First glance, it looks like Muth and Imagination set a moderate pace up front. But I think it could make sense for Lukas to have Seize the Grey up front and either try to wire them or possibly press the pace for the Baffert duo and set up Just Steel a bit. Which, if that happens, that will of course have the potential to also set up horses like Mystik Dan and Tuscan Gold and so on.
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Muth scratched fever
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Muth scratched fever
Changes the race a bit.

Imagine if this happened two weeks ago. It would have been wild if Zedan won his suit to have Muth run in the Derby only for him to get a fever the night before and have to be scratched.
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Trying to figure the pace out here, Steve. First glance, it looks like Muth and Imagination set a moderate pace up front. But I think it could make sense for Lukas to have Seize the Grey up front and either try to wire them or possibly press the pace for the Baffert duo and set up Just Steel a bit. Which, if that happens, that will of course have the potential to also set up horses like Mystik Dan and Tuscan Gold and so on.
After Muth SCR, feels like..

Imagination/Seize the Gray

Mystik Dan/Tuscan Gold/Just Steel

Uncle Heavy/Mugatu/Catching Freedom
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