The way owners/trainers pull derby horses except for a few leaves the field a mix-bag imo. My main interest anymore is to see if the derby winner can move on.
Personally I've never liked Pimlico, and I've always felt the Preakness distance of 1 3/16 miile was out of order with the other 2 races. I realize its always been that way, but why not 1 3/8 mile in a stepladder format to the mile and half at Belmont?
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