2008 Preakness Stakes is next to bore you like crazy

Unfortunately for most of us, the horseshit ain't over. After the Derby comes the 2008 Preakness Stakes.

All roads lead to the Pimlico Race Course as Triple Crown series title hopeful, Big Brown, along with the top thoroughbreds of the country, set their sights to Baltimore for the 2008 Preakness Stakes on May 17. The Preakness Stakes will be running for the 133rd time then.

The Preakness Stakes is an American Grade I stakes, 1-3/16 mile (1.91 km) thoroughbred horse racing event for three-year-old horses.

Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds (57 kg) while fillies have 121 lb (55 kg). The Preakness Stakes has been termed ''The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans'' mainly because a horseshoe of black-eyed susans, the state flower of Maryland, is traditionally placed around the winner's neck.

The 2008 Preakness Stakes is the second leg of the 2008 Triple Crown series. It should be interesting since it is the shortest race of all three legs. It almost always attracts the Kentucky Derby winner. After all, whoever wins the Derby will be the ONLY ONE to have the chance to capture the Triple Crown.

In this year's case, Big Brown.

It also attracts some of the other horses that ran in the Derby, and often a few horses that qualified but did not start in the Derby. The Preakness Stakes is followed by the third leg of this year's Triple Crown series, the 2008 Belmont Stakes.

As for the 2008 Kentucky Derby champion Big Brown, the thoroughbred should be a heavy favorite at Pimlico after becoming the first horse since the filly Regret in 1915 to win the Derby off just three career starts and the second to win from post position No.20.

''I don't know who's going to beat him,'' said Graham Motion, who trained 19th place Adriano. ''To win off three starts, even Curlin could not do that.''

Can 2008 Kentucky Derby champion Big Brown win the 2008 Preakness Stakes? Bodog Sportsbook has the odds.

Will there be a Triple Crown winner in U.S. thoroughbred racing in 2008?

Yes - Triple Crown winner in 2008 2.20

No Triple Crown winner in 2008 1.62

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