Baltimore (AP)-Journalism won the 150th Career of Pre-Rakness Stakes on Saturday, who left behind the section to achieve the high expectations of being the favorite of the probabilities in the middle part of the triple crown two weeks after the end of the second for sovereignty at Kentucky Derby.
Finishing first in a nine -horse field that did not include sovereignty, but had some of the best competitions in the country, journalism gave coach Michael McCarthy his second pre -Fakness victory. He is the first of Umberto Rispoli in a triple crown race, and he is the first jockey in Italy to win one.
Gosger was second for a half length after journalism just before the wire. Sandman was third and was facing fourth place. Journalism went 1 3/16 miles in 1: 55.37.
Journalism flourished on a warm day that dried the track after the torrential rain fell to the Pimlico race course for much of last week. These conditions were best suited than the inclination to Churchill Downs on the derby.
The sovereignty did not participate after its owners and coaches Bill Mott decided to skip the pre-Rakness, citing the two-week change and headed to Belmont on June 7. This meant that this was a fifth time in seven years that the pre-Raça, for several reasons, was played without a triple crown channel at stake.
But journalism claimed its claim for a 3-year-old horse winning the classic American classic race of $ 2 million in the old pimlico race course before it was demolished and rebuilt. The pre -Rakness will be held in the next Laurel Park, between Baltimore and Washington, DC, next year before a return to the new pimlico in 2027.
Journalism is the first horse to win the pre-Rakness after running to the Kentucky Derby since the Will’s War formed Mark Casse in 2019. Only two others from the 19th of the Derby participated in the Pre-PREAKness: Sandman de Cassse and his famous Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas Promise American.
Lukas, the 89 -year -old who entered the most horses in the history of pre -Rakness, referred to McCarthy once this week as a “new boy”. This was only the second of McCarthy, and is 2 by 2 after Romana caused the disorder as a shot of 11-1 by 2021.
By Stephen Whyno AP Writer Sports