The second leg of the Triple Crown takes place Saturday at Baltimore’s Pimlico Race Course with the Preakness Stakes.   The race features many of the same suspects that we saw in the Kentucky Derby, along with a few ‘fresh faces’ that skipped the ‘Run For The Roses’.  One thing we won’t see is the insanely huge field that ran two weeks ago at Churchill Downs.  Originally, there were 13 horses entered in the Preakness but only 12 will start on Saturday after Hurricane Ike was forced to withdraw due to lameness in his left hind leg.

THE PREAKNESS STAKES

This should be a much different race than the Kentucky Derby, primarily due to what we *won’t* see:

–We won’t see a ridiculously huge field: The 20 horse field at the Kentucky Derby looked more like a rodeo than a horse race.  We’ll have a manageable 12 horse field on Saturday.