Posted on 05/07/2026 4:26:58 AM PDT by MarlonRando
Golden Tempo, the first Kentucky Derby winner to be trained by a woman, will not race at next weekend's Preakness.
Trainer Cherie DeVaux announced the news Wednesday, explaining that her barn has Golden Tempo focused on the Belmont Stakes, which will be run in her native Saratoga Springs, New York for the third and final time this year.
'We are incredibly appreciative of the excitement and support surrounding the possibility of a Triple Crown run,' DeVaux said in a statement. 'Golden gave us the race of a lifetime in the Kentucky Derby, and we believe the best decision for him moving forward is to give him a little more time following such a tremendous effort.
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Ping to everyone to read your post again, as every word of it bears repeating!
Thanks.
I don’t follow horse racing either. I watch to see if a horse will win the Triple Crown and will not watch the others now that it will not happen.
I went back to becoming a casual auto racing fan. Just watch the big races like the Indy 500 and Daytona 500.
This has happened before where the Derby winner skipped the Preakness and went straight to Belmont.
Probably wouldn’t have been a Triple Crown winner anyway.
yes. if the horse needs more time maybe other horses could use more time, too
maybe they could spread the race dates out a bit?
Because it keeps happening. There’s only 3 horses races a year the general public cares about. And the 3rd one only if the same horse wins the first 2. With so many owners and trainers taking the long view and skipping the Preakness this is becoming a serious problem for horse racing. Once the general public is down to caring about only 1 race a year pretty soon it will be zero.
“ No horse can tell you, “I’ve got a shooting pain up to here every couple of minutes. Let’s not run this hoof, ok?”
Mr Ed could tell you. And he would. He was a bit of a hypochondriac.
Then the market will determine the future of horse racing. Kind of like it did with velodrome bike races.
My int was that when something occurs 60% of the time, you can’t quite claim it was thrown into disarray.
Side note, The Pimlico track where the Preakness is held is undergoing $250,000,000 in taxpayer funded renovations because all of us Marylanders care so deeply about horse racing.
Then, the Business Majors in government sold the rights a few weeks ago, but are still making taxpayers foot the bill.
Plus that, Pimlico is in a very bad area.
Gonna be a long year...injuries just kill these local teams.
Well at least we have the Pistons for now.
It will. And they clearly need to adapt.
And as I said the FACT that it’s happening so frequently lately IS throwing the racing world into disarray. This has been a growing issue for over a decade. The Triple Crown is apparently not as exciting for the horse owners as it is for network television. That’s a solid working definition of disarray. Imagine if you got to the end of the NFL season and a bunch of owners said “eh, we don’t really want to put our teams in the playoffs, too much hassle”. That’s where horse racing is finding itself.
But isn’t that what the Triple Crown is all about?
A singular horse-—a Derby winner’s stamina, endurance
and extraordinary ability to go the whole nine yards?
The old Detroit sports writer Joe Falls accused Canonero II of “choking” in the Belmont Stakes. Must have lost money! lol
Cade is good, Wembanyama is generational. He's gonna win the Spurs probably 3 titles in 5 years.
Sports radio here are saying Pistons needed to obtain a Robin (particularly a high percentage 3 point shooter) at the trade deadline/other, to compliment Cade's Batman.
Considering where they have been, if they can just make the conference final...that's a good run.
They won 14 games two years ago.
READING THE FITNESS OF AN ANIMAL THAT NAN NEVER SPEAK TO YOU IS AN ART.
ANY TRAINER IS SMART TO KNOW “WHEN” OR TO SAY “”NO”.
Well, since I care as much about football and I do horse racing it doesn’t matter much to me.
You’ve got it right though. If horse owners don’t care or more likely can’t afford to compete why bother?
Typical of Maryland. The taxpayers pay for something and then the profits get privatized.
Good for her. She’s looking out for the health and welfare of her horse, rather than cater to the MSM whose only desire is to profit from writing headline stories about the triple crown hopeful.
That's why this story got headlines. In looking out for the welfare of her horse, she's denying the greedy media weeks of stories about the triple crown.
Good for her
Well, not quite any trainer. Even if one is smart enough, there are other factors, temptations, pressures.
A fellow named Boisjoly warned management about the Challenger O-rings, and yet NASA decided to approve the launch anyway.
Golden's people are being properly and admirably cautious.
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