Preakness 2017 Trifecta
To jockey Bobby Collins, right, 29, Preakness is the pinnacle of the horse racing community. 'I think it's the most important race of the trifecta, because it may or may not be the last one that matters,' he said. All eyes are always on the Derby, he said, and then turn to Preakness to see if the same horse wins. $579,890 Trifecta Pool $13,251,251 Pick 3 Pool $780,037 Pick 4 Pool $2,665,640 Pick 5 Pool $1,869,866 Pick 6 Jackpot Pool $370,759 Last Raced #Horse M/Eqt.A/SWt PP St ¼ ½ ¾ Str Fin Jockey Odds $1 08Apr17¨§Aquª 2Cloud Computing L 3C126 2 2 3¨ 3² 3² 2ª 1² Castellano J 13.40. Horse racing’s Triple Crown series is officially completed — and a determined filly took down the boys in the Preakness Stakes. 4 Swiss Skydiver, the only female in the 11-horse field, captured the 145th running of one of the sport’s three marquee races for 3-year-olds. Cloud Computing Wins Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. The biggest race of the weekend - the second jewel of the Triple Crown - the $1.5 million G1 Preakness Stakes went down Saturday, May 20 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. Some of the best three year olds around took to Pimlico's dirt track and raced 1 3/16 miles.
Like every year, a lot of the Preakness 2017 dialogue has focused on the new shooters; horses like Conquest Mo Money and Cloud Computing; and whether they have a chance to defeat the Kentucky Derby winner, Always Dreaming.
A field of ten or eleven horses is now anticipated for this the 142nd running of the Preakness, pretty well evenly divided between horses new to the Triple Crown series and those that ran in the Derby. However, the results from the Preakness since the year 2000 are rather interesting.
The last new shooter to win the Preakness was Bernardini in 2006, at odds of 12.90-1 when Barbaro broke down at the start of the race. Before that, it was Red Bullet at 6.20-1 in 2000, and that year the Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus was second best. That is only two new shooters in the past 17 years to find the winner’s circle, but when they do, the odds are usually very good because the Derby winner is a big favorite.
As disappointing as the win results are for the new shooters, their presence in the exacta and trifecta is far more interesting. In the money statistics show a record of 17: 2-8-2 for the best finish of a new shooter in the Preakness, that’s a percentage of 70.5%. In three of those years, new shooters accounted for two of the top three finishers.
No matter how you try and spin the statistics, the Kentucky Derby horses have dominated the Preakness. Since 2000, of the 15 who have backed up their success at Churchill Downs with a victory in Pimlico’s signature event, there were seven Derby winners and one Kentucky Oaks winner. In addition, on nine different occasions the Derby horses have dominated the race. Five times they won the entire trifecta. In 2013 led by Oxbow, the Derby horses finished first through fifth. In 2005 Afleet Alex led the charge as Triple Crown experience was key since those horses took the top six out of seven places.
The past two years a new shooter finished second at very big odds. Last year it was Cherry Wine at odds of 17.30-1 and the year before it was Tale of Verve at 28.50-1. The $2 Exaggerator-Cherry Wine exacta paid $88.40 and the 2015 American Pharoah-Tale of Verve exacta returned $124.40. That year when new shooter Divining Rod got third place, the $2 trifecta yielded $985.
Preakness 2017 Trifecta Results
Of the 15 new shooters who have hit the board six made their last start before the Preakness at Keeneland, six at Aqueduct, two had the home course advantage of Pimlico, and one was from Santa Anita. Of these horses all but two of them were at double-digit odds with Magic Weisner leading the way at 45.70-1.
With the injury to Royal Mo the other day, the chances for this group of new shooters took a very big hit. Conquest Mo Money and Cloud Computing have the best resumes with top three placings on the Kentucky Derby Trail and the best speed figures. Multiplier, Term of Art, and Senior Investment like to run from well off the pace and this could set them up to make a run for a top three finish, but all three of them have not had success against the best three-year-olds. Lancaster Bomber, who was last seen in America running second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, is a possible starter for Aidan O'Brien.
Conquest Mo Money did have enough points to get into the Derby field, but was not nominated for the Triple Crown. His owners passed on the supplemental nomination for the Run for the Roses to give their horse more time to prepare for Baltimore. He is the most likely new shooter to contest the second jewel.
However, history is not on the side of the new shooters winning the Preakness, so I do not see a member of the Class of 2017 becoming the first non-Derby horse to win in 11 years. I give them an outside chance to hit the board, although I really feel that the Triple Crown veterans will sweep the Preakness trifecta this year.
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The outcome of the 2017 Preakness wasn’t quite as surprising as the 2017 Kentucky Derby, but there was an upset nonetheless. Just as Classic Empire looked to have the second leg of the Triple Crown sown up, Cloud Computing — a horse that didn’t race earlier this month — stormed from behind to win the race at the last moment.
That late surge helped boat the odds of the race’s Superfecta outcome, a bet that requires bettors to correctly pick the first, second, third and fourth placed finishers, in order. At the Kentucky Derby, a $1 bet netted over $75,000; the Preakness Superfecta wasn’t quite that much, but it still would’ve turned $1 into more than $8,000.