So, who do you like in the Preakness? [View All]

[bklyncowgirl]

I'm rooting for Barbaro and if he's fit he should win it. Most of my reasons have nothing to do with an objective analysis of the horse's capabilities, however, they are:

1. As a horse lover I really like the fact that he lives at Fair Hills training center where he actually gets to go out in a paddock by himself and graze, watch the other horses go back and forth and just be a horse. I'd love to see this catch on.

2. You gotta like the humans he hangs out with. The owners seem like down to earth real horse people, with a sense of adventure (they're talking about running in the Arc de Triomphe in France) and what can you say about a trainer who not only won an Olympic Silver medal but rescued a group of kids from the wreckage of a burning plane and yet still comes off as a low key regular guy.

3. The last time there was a long stretch between Triple Crown Winners was 1973 when Secretariat blasted through the series. That was also the year of Watergate and the downfall of a corrupt Republican President. I'm hoping for an omen here. Could history repeat itself?

As for the others:

Brother Derek: Good horse, also has cool people around him, but that bad trip he had in the Derby had to take alot out of him. I think that will show today.

Sweet Northern Saint: Ditto for what I said about Brother Derek.

Of course it's entirely possible that some horse we've never heard of could come out and run away with the whole thing. That's what makes it interesting.