Baltimore – Journalism shook with horses on the section, shrugged from the contact, exploded in the lane and came from behind to win the 150 ° operation of preakness stakes On Saturday.
The favorite of probability was overcome by a goal oriented near the pole of the room, and it seemed that another second place occurred two weeks after being the runner -up To sovereignty In Kentucky’s derby. Instead, journalism ran just for Gosger to give coach Michael McCarthy for his second victory in a triple crown race.
“Many rebounds there,” said McCarthy. “When I saw that, I resigned to the fact that it was another fantastic effort and maybe it appeared a bit short. But it only shows the testimony that this horse has. I could not be more proud of him.”
Gosger was second by means of length. Sandman was third and the room oriented with Bob Baffert. Journalism was 1 3/16 miles in 1: 55.37.
Umberto Rispoli became the first rider of Italy to win any of the triple crown races.
“When I crossed the cable, the first things that put me in mind, it is the 20 years of my career that pass in front of me,” Rispoli said. “I had to wait so long to be in such a champion.”
Journalism handled adversity and prospered on a warm day that dried the track after the torrential rain fell into Pimlico Race Course for much of last week. These conditions convenient him better than the slope in Churchill Downs in the Derby
“This victory symbolizes a lot about life,” said co -owner Aaron Wellman. “Umberto Rispoli took his way through a seemingly impossible hole that slid laterally and thread the needle and moving forward. And he took guts of an incredible horse so that he somehow was his way to victory.”
Journalism paid $ 4 to win, $ 2.80 to place and $ 2.40 to show.
“It’s a notable horse,” Baffert said about journalism. “I wanted to be in the lead and I was behind the horses. I knew that (objective oriented) I was intimidated. It has never run like this. It ran well, but it is still too green for that.”
Sovereignty did not participate after its owners and coach Bill Mott He decided to omit The Preakness, citing the change of two weeks and pointed to Belmont on June 7. That made this a fifth time in seven years that the Preakness, for several reasons, was disputed without a triple crown offer at stake.
But journalism applied its claim for the horse of the 3 -year year to win the US classic career of $ 2 million in the Pimlico Race Course Old for last before it is Disruggted and rebuilt. While the work continued around him before the press conference after the Postrace, Wellman asked: “Are they already knocking out this place?”
Not yet, and not before journalism could add a memorable chapter by pressing the space he had to win.
“I still can’t realize what this horse did,” Rispoli said. “It’s about Him. It’s a pleasure and privilege to set up a horse like him.”
The Preakness will take place at the nearby Laurel Park, between Baltimore and Washington, DC, next year before a planned return to the new Pimlic Journalism won this time.
“Things are a complete circle,” McCarthy said. “It saddens me to see that this place leaves, but we will try to return here next year, anywhere in which you are.”
Journalism is the first horse to win the Preakness after running in the Kentucky derby since the War of will trained by Mark Casse in 2019. It is Derby’s first runner -up in following that by winning the preakness from exaggerator in 2016.
Only two of the 19 in the Derby participated in the Preakness: the Sandman de Casse and the fellow of the Hall of Fame D. Wayne Lukas American Promise, who did not have the same positive response as journalism.
“The best horse won,” Lukas said. “It ended wonderfully.”
Lukas, the 89 -year -old man who has set most horses in the history of Preakness, referred to McCarthy once this week as “the new boy.” This was only McCarthy’s second, and it is 2 for 2 after Rombauer bothers as a long 11-1 shot in 2021.
This was more emotional, with McCarthy and his wife still displaced from his house for the forest fires of southern California.
“We’ll return there,” said McCarthy. “Everyone will return there. We will rebuild. This is for Altadena.”
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