Odds-on favorite for the Preakness Stakes is Street Sense
Street Sense is at 7/5 to win the Preakness Stakes and he will be challenged by Hard Spun.
On the first Saturday in May, Street Sense obliterated two strong trends - no winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile had come back the following spring to win the Kentucky Derby, and in the past 60 years only Sunny’s Halo in 1983 had won the Derby after starting
in just two prep races as a 3-year-old.
Those accomplishments were achieved in his commanding victory in the Derby and they’ve led to him being listed as the overwhelming odds-on favorite for the 132nd running of the Preakness Stakes.
The second jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown takes place Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore with the post position time scheduled for 6 p.m. ET (NBC).
And Street Sense’s Preakness odds are 7/5. This time, Street Sense will have a trend working in his favor: the Preakness has been won five of the past six years by the favorite, and the streak might not have ended had Barbaro not broken down at the start last year.
“I don’t believe in reincarnation, but if I do, I’m coming back as a second-guesser,” trainer Carl Nafzger said. “I didn’t want to be the favorite this time, but I earned it.”
Street Sense will start eighth, to the direct outside of the principal speed horses in the field: Kentucky Derby runner-up Hard Spun, Derby Trial winner Flying First Class and Santa Anita Derby runner-up King of the Roxy.
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