Preakness Stakes 2024 predictions, picks, horses, time, odds: Best bets from expert who hit last year's winner

 Preakness Stakes 2024 predictions, picks, horses, time, odds: Best bets from expert who hit last year's winner

Preakness Stakes 2024 forecasts, picks, steeds, time, chances: Best wagers from master who hit final year's winner

Gene Menez, who called National Treasure to win final year's Run for the Back-Eyed Susans, has made his picks and wagers for the 149th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course

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Jockey Tyler Gaffalione made his make a big appearance in the Preakness Stakes in 2019 and accomplished moment wonderfulness, riding War of Will to triumph. He has been incapable to return to the winner's circle, in any case, after he wrapped up eighth with both Thousand Words in 2020 and Cheerful Jack in 2022. Gaffalione will make another endeavor at his moment win when he guides Tuscan Gold in the 2024 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Saturday. The 29-year-old about won his moment Triple Crown race prior this month, but Sierra Leone misplaced by a nose to Mystik Dan in the Kentucky Derby. Tuscan Gold, who wrapped up third in the Louisiana Derby in Walk, is 9-2 and Mystik Dan is the 8-5 favorite in the 2024 Preakness Stakes chances. Catching Flexibility (7-2) and Creative ability (3-1) circular out the beat four 2024 Preakness Stakes horses.

Post time for the moment leg of the Triple Crown is 7:01 p.m. ET. With an fulfilled field set to enter the beginning entryway on Saturday, you'll need to see what SportsLine author Quality Menez has to say some time recently making any Preakness Stakes picks or horse hustling forecasts, given the victory he had in final year's race.

A previous correspondent and editor at Sports Outlined, Menez secured an cluster of sports, counting horse hustling, for the magazine and its site for nearly 14 a long time. Between 2010 and 2012, he served as SI's handicapper for the Triple Crown races and accurately anticipated Super Saver to win the Kentucky Derby in 2010.

In 2015, whereas composing for Sports on Soil, Menez precisely gave out the Kentucky Derby superfecta (American Pharoah, Terminating Line, Dortmund and Iced), which paid $1,268.20 for $2. At that point in 2017, he tweeted out his Kentucky Derby picks, counting Continuously Imagining to win, and hit the Choose 4, which paid nearly $6,900 on a $1 bet.

In a span of seven races final year for SportsLine, he cashed the champ of the Lecomte Stakes, the exacta in the Southwest Stakes, the victor of the Sacred Bull Stakes, the champ of the Sam F. Davis Stakes, and the trifecta in the Jenny Wiley Stakes. Most vitally, he accurately called National Treasure to win final year's Preakness.

For Saturday, Menez has crippled the 2024 Preakness Stakes field, made his picks and built his best wagers. You can head to SportsLine presently to see them.

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One astonish: Menez is totally hurling Mystik Dan, indeed in spite of the fact that he is the Kentucky Derby champ and Preakness 2024 favorite. There are a few 2024 Preakness Stakes steeds competent of giving Mystik Dan a solid challenge for the win, counting Fair Steel. Prepared by Hall-of-Famer D. Wayne Lukas, Fair Steel was 17th in the Kentucky Derby, but wrapped up moment in his past three begins and crossed the wrap up line ahead of Mystik Dan in two of them.

A need of rest moreover seem be a issue for Mystik Dan. The as it were other time the colt had as it were two weeks between begins happened in November, when he posted his to begin with career win at Churchill Downs and wrapped up a removed fifth at the same track 13 days afterward. "To me, this is a ruddy hail," Menez told SportsLine. Menez will not be utilizing Mystik Dan in any of his bets. You can see all of Menez's 2024 Preakness Stakes wagers here.

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Moreover, Menez's beat choose is a horse who is "set up to run a career-best race." He moreover is tall on a double-digit longshot who ought to "come running late." He is counting these steeds in his bets, and so ought to you. He's sharing which steeds to back at SportsLine.

So who wins Preakness Stakes 149? What double-digit longshot has a huge chance, and how has Menez built his bets? Visit SportsLine to see Menez's picks for the Preakness Stakes, all from the master who nailed final year's victor, and discover out.