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The Way We Train Now

Missing Out

Bill Finley on why Kentucky Derby runner-up Nehro, apparently sound and in form, should be running Saturday at Pimlico:

Since 1984, a horse that has started in the Derby has won every Preakness but three…. Fresh horses don’t win the Preakness. Horses coming back two weeks after the Derby do.

With those kinds of odds, passing up a million-dollar purse looks foolish.

Posted in Racing on May 19, 2011 / Tagged Coddled Colts, Nehro, Preakness Stakes, The Way We Train Now, Triple Crown