Gutierrez won the 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness with I’ll Have Another and the 2016 Derby with Nyquist. It was the first win in a Triple Crown race for his brother Keith Desormeaux who trains the Preakness victor. Exaggerator won the race.
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Out of the starting gate, Nyquist was urged to the lead by jockey Mario Gutierrez, with Uncle Lino providing pressure on the inside.
Cherry Wine finished second and Nyquist finished third. “Nyquist still ran a huge race”.
Shoe changes are determined the day of the race.
Steam rises from Kentucky Derby victor Orb as a groom washes him after a workout at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
“My horse loves the mud”, Romans quipped to AL.com.
Exaggerator with exercise rider Peedy Landry aboard and trainer Keith Desormeaux move toward the track for a workout, at Pimlico Race Course, Friday, May 20, 2016, in Baltimore. It also marked the only time in the history of the Triple Crown, that there were back-to-back winners. American Pharoah became the first horse to sweep the Derby, Preakness and Belmont since Affirmed in 1978, a year after Seattle Slew won it.
Despite the rainy, cold conditions, a crowd of 135,256 attended the race, shattering last year’s record of 131,680.
The third leg of the Triple Crown series will be in the Belmont Stakes in NY on June 11. About an hour before the Preakness was to start, the drizzle intensified into a light rain, and by the time the race started, the track was covered in standing water.
The threatening clouds overhead let everyone know that the rain that drenched Pimlico earlier in the day would inevitably return.
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Homeboykris, a nine-year-old who had competed in the Kentucky Derby in 2010, collapsed and died after winning the opening race of the card by a half-length. With these turns, you want to paint the fence. Meanwhile, the others who were close to that pace in Kentucky exhausted to be either soundly or distantly beaten, or not even finish. Homeboykris, a 9-year-old gelding, collapsed after the first race of the day and Pramedya, a 4-year-old filly, fractured a cannon bone in her lower leg while running on grass in the fourth race. Jockey Daniel Centeno broke his collarbone in the fall. News stories displayed here appear in our category for General and are licensed via a specific agreement between LongIsland.com and The Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news organization.
