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.
Justify returned $2.80 to win in leading a wide array of mutuels when he took the 143rd Preakness on Saturday at Pimlico Racing Course. Here is the full slate of payoffs.
This is the official order of finish for the 143rd Preakness run Saturday at Pimlico.
Over a sloppy track and in heavy fog, Justify stayed perfect in five starts and gave trainer Bob Baffert his record-tying seventh Preakness victory on Saturday at Pimlico.
Heavily favored Mitole was in control from the start Saturday in dominating the ninth running of the $200,000 Chick Lang Stakes on the Preakness undercard at Pimlico.
Mother Nature finally won out at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday, forcing five of the day’s six turf races to the main track.
Race 6 at Pimlico on Saturday kicks off a $500,000-guaranteed pick four featuring two graded stakes races on turf and a stakes race on the main track. Unless you’ve been living under a rock this week, you’re aware that the Baltimore area has been plagued by rain, dramatically affecting the main track and turf course. Below is a preliminary look at the pick four, but this play is subject to change.
The Preakness, to be run for the 143rd time Saturday, has been clinging stubbornly to its Pimlico perch as the middle jewel in the American Triple Crown for long enough now that anyone covering the event ends up dealing with the issue by reflex.
Diamond King, in his first morning at Pimlico on Thursday, jogged two miles the wrong way – clockwise – around the track under exercise rider Efrain Santana. The track was sloppy and a steady rain was falling.
Jeannine Edwards, who worked as an in-house television anchor for the Maryland Jockey Club tracks at the outset of her brilliant 22-year career as a racing and sports reporter, was honored Thursday morning at Pimlico.
