The latest news, updates, highlights and insights from the 2024 Preakness Stakes.
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Seize the Grey won the 149th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore by 2 1/4 lengths over Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan.
Trainer D. Wayne Lukas won his seventh Preakness Stakes. Lukas, who is 88 years old, won his first Preakness Stakes in 1980. It's his first Preakness win since Oxbow won in 2013.
Jockey Jaime Torres was running in his first Triple Crown race and led his horse to victory.
There will be no Triple Crown winner in 2024 as Mystik Dan gave a good effort but was unable to chase down Seize the Grey down the stretch.
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- Seize the Grey wins Preakness Stakes, edges out Mystik Dan to thwart Triple Crown hopes
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Trainer Bob Baffert congratulated winning trainer D. Wayne Lukas after his horse, Seize the Grey, became the 2024 Preakness champion.
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Here's the post-race interview on NBC with winning jockey Jaime Torres:
The top three finishers all raced at Churchill Downs two weeks ago.
Preakness official finishing order
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- Seize the Grey
- Mystik Dan
- Catching Freedom
- Tuscan Gold
- Just Steel
- Uncle Heavy
- Imagination
- Mugatu
Seize the Grey is making his way to the winner's circle and his handler has the garland of yellow flowers around his neck almost touching the ground on both sides.
It shows you how massive these animals really are.
A $2 bet on Seize the Grey pays out $21.60.
A $2 exacta bet on Seize the Grey finishing first and Mystik Dan finishing second pays out $119.40.
A $1 trifecta bet with Seize the Grey, Mystik Dan and Catching Freedom pays out $183.70.
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Funny little aside: the share of a racehorse concept is now a two-time Triple Crown race winner. Last year’s Derby winner, Mage, was owned by Commonwealth, a similar concept to MyRacehorse.
When I spoke to Bob Baffert earlier this year, he talked about D. Wayne Lukas and how he remembered as a young trainer Lukas taking on the glare of the spotlight. The two chatted earlier this week on the backside of Pimlico.
Seize the Grey went off at 9-1 odds ... only two horses had worse odds for the Preakness.
D. Wayne Lukas, 88 years young, wins the Preakness. The legendary trainer’s horse, Seize the Grey, goes to the front and stays there, holding off a challenge from Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan.
Lukas still gets on his horses every morning for workouts. A legend in the sport.
Seize the Grey is the Preakness champion after edging by Mystik Dan! Trainer D. Wayne Lukas wins his seventh Preakness.
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We're off!
The race is underway, and Mystik Dan and Imagination both got good starts.
Horses are approaching the starting gate and loaded in. Derby winner Mystik Dan is loaded in and is ready for the second leg of the Triple Crown.
All the horses in the lead-up to the Preakness Stakes seem pretty calm and ready to go. We'll see if there are any issues with the load-in, but there are only eight horses in this race compared to the Derby, which had 20.
There was a brief delay as one horse had issues getting into the starting gate.
The horses have completed their warmup runs before the race and are approaching the starting gate. We're at post time.
The course is incredibly muddy after it has rained on and off all day as some sun shines down on the track.
NBC says this is the first Preakness Stakes on a muddy track in 85 years.
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Pre-race odds: Mystik Dan still the favorite
Mystik Dan will go off as a 5-2 favorite in the Preakness Stakes. The odds haven't changed much in the last 30 minutes before this race.
Catching Freedom is the second favorite with Tuscan Gold the third favorite.
Anticipation before the Preakness always is on the Triple Crown and what the Kentucky Derby champion will do.
It's a tough turnaround for the winner to bounce back and win again after most of the horses in the field didn't run two weeks ago.
Keep an eye on Uncle Heavy. OK, admittedly this is a Philly girl saying this and he’s a Philly horse, with all sorts of connections to the area. He’s also named after a former wrestler. C’mon now!
But besides the great geographical lineage and storyline, Uncle Heavy has run and won twice on muddy tracks. The trainer wasn’t sure about entering him in this race but with a push from the ownership group, here he is.
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