What time does Preakness 2024 start?

 

What time does Preakness 2024 start?

Mystik Dan looks for moment Triple Crown win

Mystik Dan will have to beat Weave Baffert-trained Creative energy, Brad Cox’s Catching Opportunity and Chad Brown’s Tuscan Gold, who are the fundamental challengers, and the Preakness might be run on a sloppy track

By Stephen Whyno | The Related Press • Distributed May 18, 2024 • Overhauled on May 18, 2024 at 2:08 pm

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Here’s everything to know almost the 149th running of the Preakness Stakes, the most limited of the Triple Crown races.

Rain was falling at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday hours some time recently Kentucky Derby champ Mystik Dan goes for back-to-back Triple Crown triumphs when he takes on seven other steeds in the Preakness Stakes.

He would be the to begin with to win both the Derby and the Preakness since Legitimize in 2018. That would set up an unordinary and memorable minute following month with a Triple Crown on the line at the Belmont Stakes.

Mystik Dan will have to beat Bounce Baffert-trained Creative ability, Brad Cox’s Catching Flexibility and Chad Brown’s Tuscan Gold, who are the primary challengers, and the Preakness might be run on a sloppy track, with showers anticipated to proceed all through the afternoon.

What time does Preakness 2024 start?The post time is at 6:50 p.m. ET but you can capture the scope on NBC beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET, or stream on Peacock.

Baffert was set to saddle two steeds in the race set to go off fair after 7 p.m. EDT, but morning line favorite Muth was scratched amid the week since of a fever. Mystik Dan opened Saturday as the 3-1 favorite, with Catching Flexibility and Tuscan Gold each 7-2 and Creative ability 9-2.

“Catching Opportunity prepared truly well going into the Derby,” Mystik Dan's coach, Kenny McPeek, said this week. “He’s a exceptionally pleasant horse. And Bounce, he wouldn’t bring a horse without it being a great horse, and Chad’s too got a horse coming out of (wrapping up third behind champ Catching Flexibility in) the Louisiana Derby. No doubt, it's not a given.”

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It was not a given that McPeek would send Mystik Dan to Baltimore on a two-week turnaround from the colt's debilitating win by a nose in the Kentucky Derby. But he's one of three steeds from that race running in the Preakness, up from one final year and two in 2022.

Many trainers' hesitance to do the Derby-Preakness twofold, once the standard for steeds on the Triple Crown path, has raised questions almost the distinction of the center gem and concerns that it has gotten to be the undesirable stepchild of the arrangement. There are talks about approximately dividing the races out to adjust to advanced pure breeds that race less regularly than in past eras.

This will be the last Preakness at maturing Pimlico Race Course as it stands presently, with pulverization set to start early following year. The 150th running in 2025 will still take put at the track amid development some time recently moving to Shrub Stop in 2026 and at that point returning to a modified Pimlico in 2027.

When is the Belmont Stakes and where?

The last leg of the Triple Crown is taking put on June 8, and for the to begin with time, at the Saratoga Race Course in upstate Unused York since of redesigns at Belmont Stop in Unused York City.

Construction is anticipated to final into 2025, so there's a great chance of the Belmont at Saratoga two a long time in a row.

Racing in Modern York is as of now happening at Water passage in Rulers, which was domestic to the Triple Crown finale from 1963-67, the final time Belmont Stop was remodeled.