En of the 19 winners of the Kentucky Derby have gone on to win the Preakness Stakes two weeks afterwards. Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist will try to become the horse to win both races at the last five years with a win at Pimlico on Saturday.
Nyquist is a -140 preferred to win the Preakness Stakes at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com. The colt improved with his win in the Kentucky Derby, which was an superb encounter with jockey Mario Gutierrez at the helm.
There haven’t been back-to-back winners of the Triple Crown since Seattle Slew and Affirmed went back in 1977 and 1978, but Nyquist is going off in +250 to follow in American Pharoah’s footsteps and win the Triple Crown this year. Bettors seeking to wager on history’s medial side can take Nyquist to not win the Triple Crown in -400.
Exaggerator has come up short in every one of his previous races from Nyquist, and the horse was again the very best of the rest using a second-place end in the Kentucky Derby.
Of the 19 horses that were conquered by Nyquist from the Kentucky Derby, just Exaggerator (+450 to win the Preakness) and Lani (+3300) have been verified to be entered at the next leg of the Triple Crown.
Todd Pletcher’s Stradivari did not operate providing the horse a opportunity to play spoiler. Stradivari has won just two of his 3 races and would pay +1200 on the odds to win the Preakness.
Other 3-year-olds that did not race in the Derby but will race at Pimlico comprise Cherry Wine (+2500) and Laoban (40/1).
Other horses potentially in the combination to mad Nyquist’s shot at a Triple Crown comprise Gun Runner (+1400), Suddenbreakingnews (+1400), Destin (+1600), Mor Spirit (+1600) and Creator (+1600).
Following Exaggerator and Nyquist crossed the end line Mohaymen Gun Runner and Suddenbreakingnews were separated by inches in the third, fourth, and fifth positions respectively. Mohaymen has been ruled from rushing in the Preakness.
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