It's Time for the Third Biggest Wagering Day in America!
Ladies and Gents, today we take a break from your normal Minnesota themed sports coverage to brings you something that has more, you know, horses in it. It's time for the ugly sibling of the triple crown, the Preakness! Everyone is in love with the pageantry of the Kentucky Derby and you can't have a triple crown winner with out the Belmont, so here we are today, stuck with the Preakness yet again. Sure, it's got some tradition. Yeah, it's important. But at the end of the day, it's just the ugly, overlooked middle child.
From 2002-04 three horses won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, only to suck wind and come up short in New York. The past three years, no horse has been able to take home even the first two legs. Today Big Brown, a heavy favorite, is racing against a field that resembles the episode of South Park where a bunch of kindergarten kids faced off against the Detroit Red Wings. If he doesn't become the first horse since Smarty Jones to win the first two legs then, well, horse racing can chalk up another year of not taking America's dreams by storm (but they do try so hard, what with all the touching story lines being shoved down our throats!). Instead, it will be a long year of PETA protests and negative publicity. Doesn't that sound fun?
Without any further ado, here are your betting lines for the 133rd Preakness Stakes. 133 years? Jeez. It amazes me more and more every year that somehow, a long time ago, horse racing and boxing were on top of the sporting world. Gotta love 'tradition'.
Oh and Big Brown is 1-2. Seriously. What the hell is going on?
I guess I have to give some sort of prediction at this point. I'm going to close my eyes, and point to a random spot on my computer screen. Really. And the pick is.... Racecare Rhapsody! Good luck everybody!
Credit: Yahoo!
PP Horse ML
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1 Macho Again 20-1
2 Tres Borrachos 30-1
3 Icabad Crane 30-1
4 Yankee Bravo 15-1
5 Behindatthebar SCR
6 Racecar Rhapsody 30-1
7 Big Brown 1-2
8 Kentucky Bear 15-1
9 Stevil 30-1
10 Riley Tucker 30-1
11 Giant Moon 30-1
12 Gayego 8-1
13 Hey Byrn 20-1
From 2002-04 three horses won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, only to suck wind and come up short in New York. The past three years, no horse has been able to take home even the first two legs. Today Big Brown, a heavy favorite, is racing against a field that resembles the episode of South Park where a bunch of kindergarten kids faced off against the Detroit Red Wings. If he doesn't become the first horse since Smarty Jones to win the first two legs then, well, horse racing can chalk up another year of not taking America's dreams by storm (but they do try so hard, what with all the touching story lines being shoved down our throats!). Instead, it will be a long year of PETA protests and negative publicity. Doesn't that sound fun?
Without any further ado, here are your betting lines for the 133rd Preakness Stakes. 133 years? Jeez. It amazes me more and more every year that somehow, a long time ago, horse racing and boxing were on top of the sporting world. Gotta love 'tradition'.
Oh and Big Brown is 1-2. Seriously. What the hell is going on?
I guess I have to give some sort of prediction at this point. I'm going to close my eyes, and point to a random spot on my computer screen. Really. And the pick is.... Racecare Rhapsody! Good luck everybody!
Credit: Yahoo!
PP Horse ML
-- ----- --
1 Macho Again 20-1
2 Tres Borrachos 30-1
3 Icabad Crane 30-1
4 Yankee Bravo 15-1
5 Behindatthebar SCR
6 Racecar Rhapsody 30-1
7 Big Brown 1-2
8 Kentucky Bear 15-1
9 Stevil 30-1
10 Riley Tucker 30-1
11 Giant Moon 30-1
12 Gayego 8-1
13 Hey Byrn 20-1
Labels: Horse Racing, Things Almost Nobody Truly Cares About Anymore
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