BALTIMORE – He was second at the Kentucky Derby, but he will be the first choice at the Preakness Stakes. Despite being defeated as the favorite two weeks ago in the first leg of the Triple Crown, Bodemeister will be the favorite again on Saturday in the 137th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, in which he will try to deny the Derby winner, I’ll Have Another, from advancing to the June 9 Belmont Stakes with a chance to complete the Triple Crown.

BALTIMORE - Trainer Doodnauth Shivmangal did not enter Guyana Star Dweej in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes due to the combination of a grabbed quarter and a spate of wet tracks in New York that prevented him from being able to work the horse.

“I don’t like to breeze over a sloppy track,” said Shivmangal, who told Pimlico officials that a grabbed quarter had not sufficiently healed.

Guyana Star Dweej, a maiden winner from nine starts who likely would have been the longest shot in the field, will likely be pointed to the Belmont Stakes, Shivmangal said.

BALTIMORE – Doug O’Neill said that before he came to Pimlico last week with Derby winner I’ll Have Another, he had been here only one time – and it was a very brief stay.

It was Preakness weekend 2003, when he sent Maria’s Mirage to run second in the The Very One Stakes. O’Neill flew in from California for the race, but didn’t stay to see it.

DRF handicappers Brad Free, Marcus Hersh, and Dan Illman participated in a live Preakness handicapping chat on Thursday, May 17. Here are the highlights:

BradFree: Tiger Walk at 30-1 has a shot to clunk into the trifecta. Cozzetti and Zetterholm look like the same horse, wouldn't split hairs between a 20-1 shot and a 30-1 shot. Creative Cause frequent flyer miles not an issue for me.

BALTIMORE - A field of 11 was entered on Wednesday morning in the Preakness, which will be run for the 137th time on Saturday at Pimlico.

Posts will be drawn Wednesday night at 6 p.m. Eastern. The draw can be seen live on HRTV.

The entrants are Bodemeister, Cozzetti, Creative Cause, Daddy Nose Best, I'll Have Another, Optimizer, Pretension, Teeth of the Dog, Tiger Walk, Went the Day Well, and Zetterholm.

Field for Saturday's Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on May 19, 2012. Watch the race live and bet with DRF Bets. Click horse names to access contender profiles.

Preakness Stakes (G1), Post Time: 6:05 ET Saturday

Purse: $1,000,000; 1 3/16 miles

Michael Kipness, AKA The Wizard, joined DRF.com users for a 2012 Preakness Stakes preview chat on Wednesday night. Go here for his pick and wagering strategies for this year's Preakness.

ELKTON, Md. – The question didn’t have to be asked. Just listening to Michael Matz talk about the seventh-place finish by Union Rags in the Kentucky Derby it was easy to tell the trainer hasn’t gotten over the disappointment yet.

Tuesday morning, with showers alternating between heavy and heavier at the Fair Hill Training Center where he is based, Matz discussed the frustrations over having a horse primed and ready for the biggest race of his life only to have it lost two jumps out of the gate.

On the Monday morning following the Kentucky Derby, still wiped out and hoarse from cheering home I’ll Have Another, Paul Reddam sat down to a series of meetings with fund managers in the financial district of New York.

Some of them were not impressed.

Post-race interviews in the Triple Crown races rarely deviate from the usual clichés, and it is safe to say that there had never been a reference in the winner's circle to the author of "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus."

But as owner Paul Reddam accepted the trophy for the 2012 Kentucky Derby, NBC's Bob Costas asked him: "As a former philosophy professor at USC, which of the great philosophers summed up a day like this best?"