Yours Truly

Yours Truly
Janet Fauble at home

Friday, May 18, 2018

Preakness Stakes

Tomorrow is the Preakness Stakes where Justify, a Bob Baffert trained horse, is the favorite to win the race. He won the Kentucky Derby on a muddy track, and again the race will be contested after a heavy downpour of rain.  The top two horses came in 1-2 at the Kentucky Derby and are expected to do the same tomorrow.  There are only 8 entries into this race card.  If the first two do come in as expected, the exacta alone will be bet heavily to pay only even money.  So the trifecta and the superfecta are the only way to win any money at all with nearly all the remaining horses heavy long shots.  One can only wonder at how to play this race.  7-5-1 is the most likely possibility but I am sure that most people will play 7-5 all.  They can lose that money that way if it does not have a really long shot come in to show.  Lone Sailor and Diamond King are two of the longest shots so it would be no surprise if either one of them does come in third and fourth.

I had wanted to play this race, but am getting cold feet again.  There is no way that anyone can really do much with it as it is as of now.  The weather does say 100 % rain in Baltimore.  It will be a soggy mess trying to race in mud.

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