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No Triple Crown...Strike Rich to skip Preakness..focus on Belmont Stakes..
https://www.horseracingnation.com/news/Owner_Kentucky_Derby_winner_Rich_Strike_will_skip_Preakness_1 ^ | 5/12/22 | Basalt

Posted on 05/12/2022 12:37:43 PM PDT by basalt

owner says its best for the horse...kinda wanted to see him go for it..

(Excerpt) Read more at horseracingnation.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: belmont; preakness; strikerich
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To: God luvs America

Pimlico is in the hood in Baltimore. If you’ve ever been to that racetrack it’s not a good location. It’s one of the reasons the owners of the track want to move the Preakness to another track, but so far have been unsuccessful.


41 posted on 05/12/2022 3:12:00 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: basalt

The Preakness is only half a furlong shorter than the Derby.


42 posted on 05/12/2022 3:32:12 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: dowcaet

Never been


43 posted on 05/12/2022 4:15:48 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

You don’t want to go there. It really is in the Baltimore hood. Of the three racetracks where the Triple Crown events are held it’s by far the worst of them.


44 posted on 05/12/2022 4:22:00 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: TBP

Is it common for an owner to issue a trophy to the trainer after the fact?

https://www.on3.com/teams/kentucky-wildcats/news/affirmeds-triple-crown-trophy-is-for-sale/

I saw this on Pawn Stars. What was weird about it is that it commemorated Affirmed’s Preakness win, but the trophy also said “Triple Crown Winner.”

What? Do they issue a trophy when the horse wins the race, then issue another trophy if the horse goes on to win the Triple Crown?

No, the trophy for sale was not issued by the track. As far as I could figure it was issued by the owner to the trainer.


45 posted on 05/12/2022 4:50:52 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: libertylover

1 mile and 3/16.


46 posted on 05/12/2022 4:56:00 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: God luvs America

I grew up in Westchester.

You know who’s from upcounty? AOC.


47 posted on 05/12/2022 4:58:07 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: TBP

Yup- I’m right down the road from Yorktown Hts. Unlike her- i grew up in the poorer section of Yorktown.


48 posted on 05/12/2022 5:02:33 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: dowcaet

Tehre has been talk of shutting down Pimlico and bringing the Preakness to Laurel.

Tehre has also been talk of renovating Pimlico, in which case Laurel would get the Preakness for a year or two anyway while renovation is oging on, as Aqueduct did when Belmont was being renovated.


49 posted on 05/12/2022 5:03:16 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: scrabblehack

Affirmed did win the Triple Crown. He and Seattle Slew won in back to back years.


50 posted on 05/12/2022 5:04:58 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: God luvs America

I believe that in Yorktown, she was known as Sandy Cortez. Sandy is less “ethnic.”


51 posted on 05/12/2022 5:06:14 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: God luvs America

I grew up in Eastchester, then moved to Irvington. Graduate of Irvington High School. Go Bulldogs.


52 posted on 05/12/2022 5:07:06 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: TBP

Thanks.


53 posted on 05/12/2022 5:09:41 PM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: TBP

I grew up in Mohegan Lake, the poorer part of Yorktown. Went to JFK HS in Somers- greatest school in the area.

I now live in New Castle about 2 miles from the Clinton’s, or as i refer to it, the “a$$hole of NY.” Chappaqua taxes and bedford schools.


54 posted on 05/12/2022 5:15:07 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: TBP

I know the Preakness is shorter — I also thought the track had tighter turns and shorter straight-aways. But I could be wrong.

The way Rich Strike ran the Derby the Preakness doesn’t seem like a good fit for him.


55 posted on 05/12/2022 6:34:09 PM PDT by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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To: MortgageLifter

Can anyone confirm for me that the jockey was asked about meeting Biden and he said that if he wanted to see a horses ass he would have come in second.


56 posted on 05/12/2022 7:02:14 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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