BALTIMORE - It might have appeared that Kentucky Derby runner-up Good Magic's connections changed tactics to try and turn the tables on Justify in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, but that was not the case. Good Magic dueled with Justify from the start in the Preakness, but he couldn’t outrun him and ultimately finished fourth, beaten one length. Afterward, Jose Ortiz, Good Magic's rider, blamed himself for giving the horse a bad ride. “I messed up, that wasn’t the plan we drew,” Ortiz said. “I wasn’t supposed to be where I was.” Two weeks ago, in the Kentucky Derby, Good Magic was in the second flight of horses while Justify dueled with the longshot Promises Fulfilled through a torrid half-mile in 45.77 seconds. Good Magic, last year’s 2-year-old champion, tried to challenge Justify at the quarter pole, but was repelled, and finished second, beaten 2 1/2 lengths. Good Magic broke alertly Saturday from post 5, two slots inside of Justify. The horse was so strong that he pulled Ortiz to the lead. With Justify and Mike Smith to his outside, Ortiz had nowhere to go on Good Magic. The two went head and head through a quarter in 23.11 seconds, a half-mile in 47.19 seconds, and six furlongs in 1:11.42. “In the first turn, I tried to take him back, I couldn’t,” Ortiz said. “I got past the six-furlong [pole] and that’s what I got, I got to deal with it. My horse was very relaxed where he was - good horses go 47-and-change really easy.” Ortiz, last year’s Eclipse Award-winning rider, paused, then said, “not my best ride.” Good Magic fought Justify into deep stretch, but Justify edged away and Good Magic was overtaken by Bravazo and Tenfold late and was beaten two necks for second. “I didn’t want the horse on the lead,” trainer Chad Brown said. “I’m disappointed with the trip. Post [position] didn’t help, we were inside the other horse the whole way. Unfortunately, our horse took the worst of it being on the fence, getting pressed the whole way; he’s just not a horse that runs on the lead, so I’m disappointed.” Compounding the disappointment is that Brown had previously said he wouldn’t run Good Magic in the Belmont Stakes because he didn’t feel the horse would be effective at 1 1/2 miles. Brown felt with the right trip, he had a chance to beat Justify on Saturday. “I entered my horse in the race because I felt there was a chance [Justify] could be beaten, we could win the race,” Brown said. “It just wasn’t a good trip. I would have liked to have seen a different scenario, maybe where we were just off the pace a little bit.” So now Good Magic will return to New York and be freshened up for a summer campaign that will likely include the Travers Stakes at Saratoga in August, with perhaps a start in the Haskell at Monmouth or Jim Dandy at Saratoga beforehand. Brown said it won’t matter to him whether Justify shows up in those races or not. “I’m going to pick the races that I think fit the horse and if he’s there then we’re going to have to run against him again,” Brown said. “He’s a great horse, he proved that again today.”