Handicapping the 2025 Preakness Stakes!
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There will be No Triple Crown Winner this Year!
Who will win the 2025 Preakness Stakes? That is the big question!
With the defection of the Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty from the 2nd leg of the Triple Crown series, the big question is who will win the Preakness Stakes?
Journalism, the runner up and post time Favorite in the Kentucky Derby, will run in the 2nd Leg of the Triple Crown series and no doubt will be the favorite in the Preakness Stakes!
There will be (2) other Kentucky Derby runners also showing up to take another shot at a Triple Crown Series race along with (6) "New Shooters" that are rested and ready to take on the KY Derby runners.
With the Preakness Stakes being 1/16th mile shorter than the Kentucky Derby you would think that Journalism in the Preakness is a can not lose horse!
Did you know that in the last 19 years ONLY 5 Kentucky Derby winners were able to win the Preakness Stakes?
They were: Justify (2018), American Pharoah (2015), Caifornia Chrome (2014), I'll Have Another (2012) and Big Brown (2008).
Last year Mage (15-1) upset winner of the Kentucky Derby finished 3rd in the Preakness Stakes as the favorite!
No Kentucky Derby winner in the race this year.
There are (6) "New Shooters" that are rested and ready, that are lining up to take their best shot at the Kentucky Derby runners coming back for the 2nd Leg of the Triple Crown.
Since the Derby winner, Sovereignty, is skipping the Preakness, the "New Shooters" are looking at a wide-open race. They are: Goal Oriented, Clever Again, Gosger, River Thames, Pay Billy and Heart of Honor (GB).
In handicapping the Preakness Stakes you need to include the NEW shooters who almost always have a say in the Exotic wagers (Exacta, Trifecta and Superfecta).
Just like last year when when Seize the Grey (9-1) who did not run in the KY Derby, trained by D. Wayne Lukas, defeated the Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan (5/2) by 2 1/4 lengths while the Derby 4th place runner Catching Freedom ran 3rd followed by another "New Shooter" in 4th.
In 2023 National Treasure (3-1), trainer by Bob Baffert, was not allowed to participate in the Kentucky Derby, was well rested and won as the KY Derby winner Mage finished 3rd.
In 2022, it was Early Voting (6-1) that skipped the Kentucky Derby as trainer Chad Brown was looking to repeat his 2017 Preakness win by waiting for the 2nd Leg of the Triple Crown to beat the KY Derby post time Favorite and Preakness favorite Epicenter (3/2) by 1 1/4 lengths and paid $13.40 for the win.
In 2022 when Rombauer (12-1), who skipped the Kentucky Derby, took on the Derby winner Medina Spirit and the two other runners coming back for the 2nd Leg of the Triple Crown won by 3 1/2 lengths. The 41 Superfecta paid $1,025 with the (3) KY Derby runners finishing 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
In 2020, the Filly Swiss Skydiver (12-1) (trained by Ken Mcpeek) jumped into the Triple Crown series and beat the Kentucky Derby winner Authentic by a neck as "New Shooters" Jesus Team (41-1) and Art Collector (5/2) finished 3rd and 4th. $1 Trifecta paid $1,205 and the $1 Superfecta paid $5,053.
In 2017 when "New Shooter" Cloud Computing (13-1) won the race and Senior Investment (31-1) finished 4th. The $1 Trifecta paid $1,097 and the $1 Superfecta paid $8,162 and the $1 Super High 5 paid $283,223!
In 2016 Cherry Wine (17-1) ran 2nd and Stradivari (8-1) finished 4th with the two favorites running 1st and 4th and the Exacta paid $88, Trifecta $146 and the Superfecta $317.
In 2015 with a small field of 8 runners, 3 of them being "New Shooters", 2 of them came in 2nd (28-1) and 3rd (12-1) to American Pharoah (4/5) the payoffs were: Exacta $124, Trifecta $985 & Superfecta $1,906!
Do you know which runners have the BEST chance of winning the Preakness Stakes?
Favoritism will probably be Journalism.
Did you know that 12 of last 15 Preakness Favorites all LOST? They were Mystik Dan (2025), Mage (2023), Epicenter (2022), Medina Spirit (2021), Authentic (2020), Improbable (2019), Always Dreaming (2017), Nyquist (2016), Orb (2013), Bodemeister (2012), Animal Kingdom (2011) and Super Saver (2010).
Will it be Journalism who will break this trend of Favorites not being able to win the Preakness Stakes or will it be another "New Shooter" winning the 2nd Leg of the Triple Crown series?
The Preakness Stakes is limited to 14 runners and it looks like we will have a good field of 9 going to the starting gate. (3) horses from the Kentucky Derby and (6) "New Shooters".
Do you know which of the new faces have the Pedigree for winning the Preakness Stakes?
If you are not aware of the importance of Pedigree for the Triple Crown races and it's importance for correctly picking the Exacta, Trifecta and Superfecta, then you need to get our Picks.
Just Like in the Kentucky Derby, there is a Winning Profile that has proven itself over the years at the Preakness and it is different from the KY Derby and Belmont Stakes Winning Profiles.
The Profile is included with our Preakness Stakes & Wagering strategy.
It is extremely difficult for 3-year old horses to meet the demands of 3 races at 3 different distancess at 3 different tracks over a period of just 5 weeks!
Thus the difficulty of winning the Triple Crown.
Most people think that the Pimlico track is a early running pace speed track and that horses coming from off the pace can not win the Preakness Stakes.
That was true at one-time, however, the folks at Pimlico have done an excellent job in recent years to eliminate this track bias. They have also widened the turns so they are not so sharp, which had also helped the speed horses. The turns are now more like Churchill Downs!
Unfortunately, a lot of jockeys still think they must be up front early in order to have a shot at winning the race. The big question is, who will try to go fast early and try to steal the race in a wire-to-wire attempt like Gary Stevens did on Oxbow for D. Wayne Lukas in 2013 and did it again last year with Seize the Grey?
Don't forget Lukas has another one this year with American Promise who also likes to race on the lead!
Remember Magic Weisner in 2002?
He came from out of the clouds to just miss catching speedster War Emblem at odds of (45-1) and made for a very nice Exacta, Trifecta and Superfecta payouts ... Exacta $327, Trifecta $2,311 and the $1 Superfecta gave back $6,701.
Our Preakness Stakes Picks utilizes the Proven Winning Profile to identify those horses that have the CORRECT pedigree for winning the 2nd Leg of the Triple Crown series.
It has been successful in 17 of the last 25 years in picking the winner!
Not only has it picked the winner but also the Exacta in 20 of the last 26 years, the Trifecta in 16 of those 25 years and even hit the Superfecta in 11 of those!
Included with the Preakness Picks is our powerful wagering strategy for the Exacta, Trifecta and Superfecta tickets.
The key to making money on the Preakness Stakes is to hit the Trifecta and Superfecta tickets without requiring a large bankroll to get maximum coverage in a 14 horse field.
You will also be provided with a Link to download FREE Past Performances for all Preakness Stakes horses when they become available.