Preakness Stakes Betting

The Preakness Stakes at Pimlico is the second leg of horse racing's legendary Triple Crown, and as such it generates a tremendous amount of betting interest. The race always features the horse that has captured the imagination of America's horseracing fans, namely the horse that won the Kentucky Derby.

However, let's get one thing straight: the horse that wins the Kentucky Derby is by no means the best three-year-old in the country. Sometimes the horse that wins the Run For The Roses just got very lucky, usually because of a perfect trip, and really has very little chance of replicating that performance again ever.

Giacomo and Monarchos were horses of that ilk that had one magical race where everything fell into place, and one could also argue that Funny Cide was no match for Empire Maker in terms of talent once the latter was fit and back to his best (in the Belmont).

The Preakness Stakes is however far easier to handicap than the Kentucky Derby and so the odds for the race generally pan out a lot better. Horses that are favored in the betting perform well in the Preakness because the field size is smaller, the track condition is easy to discern, and one does have a good line of form through the Kentucky Derby if it was a truly run race since many of those horses resume battle in Maryland following the first leg in Kentucky.

Horses like Smarty Jones, Real Quiet, War Emblem, Funny Cide, and Charismatic all kept their Triple Crown hopes alive, albeit fleetingly, by winning the Preakness with most of the betting action on them. They also won well enough here to give the nation false hope that there could be a new Affirmed on the horizon, but alas 30 years later it still has not happened, yet!

When it comes time to bet on the Preakness Stakes keep in mind that the Pimlico racetrack is notorious for favoring speed horses, and it can also have a substantial track bias that generally favors horses that hug the rail. So look at post positions and horses with early speed when you decide which horses to bet on in the big race.

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