Reply #63: Preakness possibles [View All]

[Awsi Dooger]

From an article in the DRF: http://www.drf.com/news/article/84672.html

"Street Sense is expected to be challenged in the Preakness by as many as four other horses exiting the Derby, including runner-up Hard Spun.

“He came out of it well. He ate every bite,” Larry Jones, the trainer of Hard Spun, said Sunday morning.

Jones said Hard Spun would go to Jones’s summer headquarters, Delaware Park, on Monday morning and would remain there until being sent by van to Pimlico, probably on Wednesday of Preakness week.

Curlin, who finished third in the Derby; Sedgefield, who was fifth; and Teuflesberg, who was 17th, are other Derby runners who could come back in the Preakness.

There are at least six horses who did not run in the Derby whom the Maryland Jockey Club on Sunday said it expects for the Preakness, most notably Chelokee, who was third in the Florida Derby. Chelokee is trained by Michael Matz, and would be running in the Preakness one year after Matz’s Barbaro, the 2006 Derby winner, suffered his catastrophic injuries in the Preakness.

Other new shooters, according to the Maryland Jockey Club, are C.P. West, King of the Roxy, Slew’s Tizzy, Xchanger, and either Flying First Class or Starbase, the latter two trained by D. Wayne Lukas, who has won the Preakness five times."