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After finishing arsenic runner-up astatine the Kentucky Derby earlier this month, the heavy-favorite Journalism earned a thrilling triumph Saturday astatine the 150th Preakness Stakes astatine Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course, the 2nd limb of the Triple Crown.
Journalism, who entered with 8-5 odds, came from down behind the agelong to decision a tract of 8 different horses. Gosger was second, Sandman 3rd and Goal Oriented fourth.
Jockey Umberto Rispoli crosses the decorativeness enactment connected Journalism to triumph the 150th Preakness Stakes astatine Pimlico Race Course connected May 17, 2025 successful Baltimore, Maryland.
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Notably absent from the race, however, was Sovereignty, the 3-year-old colt who won the Kentucky Derby, ending immoderate accidental of a Triple Crown victor this year. Sovereignty is inactive expected to tally successful the Belmont Stakes connected June 7 astatine the Saratoga Race Course successful New York, mounting up a imaginable and much-awaited rematch with Journalism.
Journalism gave trainer Michael McCarthy his 2nd Preakness victory. It is Umberto Rispoli's archetypal successful a Triple Crown race, and helium is the archetypal jockey from Italy to triumph 1 of them.
Journalism thrived connected a lukewarm time that dried retired the way aft torrential rainfall fell astatine Pimlico for overmuch of the past week. Those conditions suited him amended than the slop astatine Churchill Downs successful the Derby.
This is acceptable to beryllium the past Preakness astatine the aged Pimlico earlier it's torn down and rebuilt. The Preakness is scheduled to beryllium held astatine adjacent Laurel Park, betwixt Baltimore and Washington, D.C., adjacent year, earlier a planned instrumentality to the caller Pimlico successful 2027.
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