BALTIMORE — On a day marred by a death in his barn, trainer Bob Baffert made a triumphant return to the Preakness Stakes, winning his record-breaking eighth...
Despite his track record in Baltimore, Baffert did not exactly gush over National Treasure’s chances, saying the colt “looked fine” the morning before the race.
National Treasure, ridden by Baffert’s go-to big-race jockey John Velazquez, had won just once in five previous starts, with the trainer describing him as a potential late bloomer comfortable with the 1 3/16-mile distance of the Preakness.lingering shadow cast by a spate of seven racehorse deaths at Churchill Downs
The field of seven was the smallest for the Preakness since 1986, with only one carry-over from the Kentucky Derby, the smallest total since the Triple Crown series went to its current format more than 50 years ago.
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