Two weeks after entering the Kentucky derby as the favorite just to finish second, journalism appeared again entering the final immediately in the press bets on Saturday, the triple crown of the middle leg of the horse races.
Once he followed up to five long, journalism was still far behind Gosger at the top of the housing house, since he clenched between smartly and guided the objectives, the horses so close that and his riders rubbed together, before finally finding an open land. From there, with Jockey Umberto Rispoli urging him, journalism ran for Gosger in the post, needing all the 1 3/16 of the course of the course to authorize an impressive victory of return of the 150 ° PREAKNESS in the Baltimore Pimic Carreras course.
It was the second victory of Preakness for the coach of journalism, Michael W. McCarthy, who previously won in 2021 with Rombauer. As the gap between the leader and journalism expanded McCarthy said he was renounced to a loss.
“My initial thinking was, proud of the horse,” McCarthy said. “Great effort, I’m just going to look short.”
Except that the race was far from finishing. Gosger finished second, with Sandman third.
“The horse is a champion,” said Aron Wellman, co -owner of Journalism in NBC in the winner’s circle. “Our rider Umberto Rispoli is a champion. Our coach Michael McCarthy is a champion.”
Rispoli became the first rider of Italy to win a triple crown race.
“I would like everyone to be proud of me,” Rispoli said.
Journalism beat eight other competitors, a small field that did not include the winning sovereignty of the Derby, after coach Bill Mott withdrew the horse due to the short rhythm between the races. He marked the third time in the last four years that the winner of the Derby jumped the preakness. The triple crown, Mott said earlier this month, “is not something we are not going to think about.”
It was the fifth time in the last seven years that the preakness began without a true opportunity in the triple crown, a trend that had caused a debate about whether the change of two weeks between the triple crown races had become outdated.
The nine horsepower was still anticipated when the coaches, including Bob Baffert and their record of eight preakness victories, and D. Wayne Lukas, who had won seven times in Pimlico for 44 years, had accumulated 19 victories of previous preakness combined.
Journalism was still considered the favorite after the derby, and opened with 8-5 probabilities on Saturday morning. For career time, it had become an even bigger favorite with 6-5. However, his path to victory became difficult only a quarter of a mile on Saturday, since Clever returned to the first turn, closely followed by Gosger and River Thames, with sixth journalism. Both Rispoli, the rider and McCarthy, the coach, said in interviews after the race that they believed that their horse was in trouble and could run hard, just to arrive secondly as in the derby.
However, journalism was first at the end, just on the deadline.
