Meet the horses running in the Preakness Stakes

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The Preakness Stakes volition diagnostic its biggest tract successful 15 years Saturday with 14 horses successful the mediate jewel of equine racing's Triple Crown. After past was made earlier this period astatine the Kentucky Derby, wherever the winning trainer was a pistillate for the archetypal time, a antithetic trainer could execute a akin feat astatine the Preakness.

None of the horses successful the Maryland contention volition expanse the Triple Crown, the bid for 3-year-olds consisting of the Derby, Preakness and the Belmont Stakes successful New York. Derby victor Golden Tempo is skipping the Preakness, marking the 3rd clip successful 5 years that the victor successful the Run for the Roses isn't competing successful the Run for the Black-Eyed Susans.

2026 Preakness Stakes horses and odds

Iron Honor was picked arsenic the morning-line favourite for the 1 3/16-mile Preakness with 9-2 likelihood successful Monday's post-position draw. The likelihood for all the horses successful the contention volition alteration arsenic bettors spot their wagers starring up to Saturday's approximate station clip of 7:01 p.m. ET.

Here's a database of the horses racing successful the Preakness successful bid by station presumption with their morning-line odds:

1. Taj Mahal, 5-1
2. Ocelli, 6-1
3. Crupper, 30-1
4. Robusta, 30-1
5. Talkin, 20-1
6. Chip Honcho, 5-1
7. The Hell We Did, 15-1
8. Bull by the Horns, 30-1
9. Iron Honor, 9-2
10. Napoleon Solo, 8-1
11. Corona de Oro, 30-1
12. Incredibolt, 5-1
13. Great White, 15-1
14. Pretty Boy Miah, 15-1

The past clip 14 horses raced successful the Preakness was successful 2011, erstwhile Shackleford bushed Derby victor Animal Kingdom by fractional a length.

One large quality betwixt past and present is the venue. The Preakness volition beryllium held this twelvemonth astatine Maryland's Laurel Park, located betwixt Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, which has been the race's location since 1909. The relocation is impermanent portion Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course is being redeveloped, and the Preakness is expected to beryllium held astatine the caller Pimlico adjacent year.

Iron Honor didn't contention successful the Derby connected the archetypal Saturday of May astatine its location of Churchill Downs successful Louisville. The bay colt won the Gotham Stakes astatine New York City's Aqueduct Racetrack successful February. He didn't fare arsenic good successful the Wood Memorial Stakes astatine Aqueduct past month, coming successful seventh down chap Preakness contenders Ocelli and Napoleon Solo, who finished 3rd and fifth, respectively.

Jockey Flavien Prat, who was aboard 10th-place finisher Emerging Market successful the Derby, volition thrust Iron Honor successful the Preakness. The colt volition beryllium Prat's 4th equine successful the race. The 33-year-old rode Rombauer to triumph successful 2021 and came successful 3rd with Catching Freedom successful 2024. Last year, helium came successful 4th spot aboard Goal Oriented.

Iron Honor's trainer, Chad Brown, is chasing his 3rd Preakness triumph aft seeing Early Voting triumph successful 2022 and Cloud Computing successful 2017.

Iron Honor trains for the Preakness Stakes during greeting workouts astatine Laurel Park, May 13, 2026, successful Laurel, Maryland.

Three horses were close down Iron Honor successful the greeting enactment with 5-1 likelihood each: Chip Honcho, Incredibolt and Taj Mahal.

Trainer Brittany Russell has a accidental to marque past astatine the Preakness with Taj Mahal 2 weeks aft Cherie DeVaux became the archetypal pistillate to bid a Derby victor with Golden Tempo.

Russell volition go the 17th pistillate to saddle a Preakness equine and the archetypal since 2019, erstwhile Alwaysmining, trained by Kelly Rubley, came successful 11th. The closest a pistillate has travel to grooming a Preakness victor was successful 2002, erstwhile the Nancy Alberts-trained Magic Weisner finished successful 2nd place, three-quarters of a magnitude down the winner, War Emblem.

Taj Mahal comes into the Preakness undefeated, having won 3 races astatine his location way of Laurel Park, including February's Miracle Wood Stakes and the Federico Tesio Stakes past month.

One quality betwixt those races and the Preakness is that the bay colt volition commencement from the No. 1 post. While the station is the closest presumption successful the starting gross to the wrong of the racetrack, it comes with the hazard of horses being boxed successful betwixt the obstruction and the remainder of the tract aboriginal successful the race.

"You cognize it's funny. I said to myself, the lone spot I was hoping not to beryllium was the rail," Russell said aft the post-position draw, according to a quality release. "It's OK. It's each good."

Her husband, Sheldon Russell, rode Taj Mahal successful his 3 victories, and he'll person the equine for the Preakness. It'll beryllium the 38-year-old's 4th clip successful the race, with his astir caller besides being his champion decorativeness with Chase the Chaos, who came successful 5th successful 2023.

Taj Mahal trains for the Preakness Stakes during greeting workouts astatine Laurel Park, May 13, 2026, successful Laurel, Maryland.

Chip Honcho skipped the Derby for the Preakness. The determination to bypass the Derby came successful precocious April amid the runup to the Triple Crown opener aft the acheronian bay colt finished 5th successful March's Louisiana Derby astatine Fair Grounds Race Course successful New Orleans.

Chip Honcho had seen immoderate occurrence astatine Fair Grounds earlier the Derby, winning the Gun Runner Stakes successful December and finishing 2nd astatine the Risen Star Stakes connected Valentine's Day. The colt besides came successful 4th astatine the Lecomte Stakes astatine Fair Grounds successful January.

Jose Ortiz, who was aboard Golden Tempo for his Derby triumph arsenic good arsenic the victor of the all-filly Kentucky Oaks a time earlier, volition thrust Chip Honcho successful the Preakness. This year's contention volition beryllium the seventh for the 32-year-old, who had the equine erstwhile Early Voting won successful 2022 and erstwhile Good Magic came successful 4th successful 2018.

Chip Honcho volition beryllium the 18th Preakness contender trained by Steve Asmussen. He's besides looking for a instrumentality to the winner's ellipse aft going determination twice, with Rachel Alexandra successful 2009 and Curlin successful 2007.

Chip Honcho trains for the Preakness Stakes during greeting workouts astatine Laurel Park, May 13, 2026, successful Laurel, Maryland.

Incredibolt finished sixth successful the Derby, down the third-place Ocelli but up of chap Preakness contender Robusta, who came successful 14th. The acheronian bay colt won the Virginia Derby successful March, beating Ocelli, who finished sixth. Incredibolt besides won October's Street Sense Stakes astatine Churchill Downs and finished past retired of six horses successful January's Holy Bull Stakes successful Florida.

Jaime Torres, who's ridden Incredibolt passim the colt's racing career, volition beryllium eyeing his 2nd Preakness win. The 27-year-old was aboard Seize the Grey during his wire-to-wire triumph astatine Pimlico successful 2024.

Incredibolt volition beryllium archetypal Preakness equine saddled by trainer Riley Mott. His father, trainer Bill Mott, has tally 2 horses successful the race, astir precocious Riley Tucker, who finished 12th successful 2008.

In summation to his performances successful the Derby, the Wood Memorial and the Virginia Derby, Ocelli — who was fixed 6-1 likelihood successful the greeting enactment — besides competed successful Florida's Sam F. Davis Stakes successful February, coming successful sixth.

Tyler Gaffalione volition beryllium aboard the bay colt for the Preakness. Ocelli was besides nether the 31-year-old for his third-place Derby finish. Saturday's contention volition beryllium Gaffalione's 4th Preakness, his apical effect coming successful 2024 with Tuscan Gold's fourth-place finish. The contention volition beryllium Whit Beckman's archetypal Preakness arsenic a trainer.

Ocelli trains for the Preakness Stakes during greeting workouts astatine Laurel Park, May 13, 2026, successful Laurel, Maryland.

The Wood Memorial was the astir caller contention for Napoleon Solo, who got 8-1 likelihood successful the greeting line. Before that, the grey colt finished 5th successful Florida's Fountain of Youth Stakes successful February up of chap Preakness contender Bull by the Horns, who came successful seventh. In October, Napoleon Solo won New York's Champagne Stakes, beating Preakness rival Talkin, who came successful 2nd and was fixed 20-1 likelihood successful the greeting enactment for Saturday.

Paco Lopez volition thrust Napoleon Solo successful what volition beryllium his 2nd Preakness. The 40-year-old finished 5th aboard Max Player successful 2020. The colt volition beryllium trainer Chad Summers' archetypal successful the Preakness.

Three horses — Great White, Pretty Boy Miah and The Hell We Did — were fixed morning-line likelihood of 15-1.

Four much got 30-1 odds: Bull by the Horns, Corona de Oro, Crupper and Robusta.

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