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The 2024 Kentucky Derby successful horse is no longer confirmed for the Preakness Stakes later in Could well, per the Linked Press (h/t ESPN).
Mystik Dan’s trainer Kenny McPeek and the horse’s possession neighborhood relish no longer committed the colt to the Preakness Stakes, which take in about two weeks on Could well 18.
“We’re no longer committed to the Preakness, no longer but,” McPeek said on Sunday. “I ran him aid once in two weeks, and it exclusively backfired on me. … So we’ll correct watch him over the subsequent week. It is going to be a form of [situations] the achieve we’ll presumably take it as a lot as the final minute.”
McPeek said that Mystik Dan will crawl to the Saratoga Move Route in Saratoga, Contemporary York, sooner than the group decides its resolution on Preakness.
Saratoga Move Route will host the Belmont Stakes on June 8 as the final jewel in the Triple Crown. The mosey in most cases takes home at Belmont Park, nonetheless with the note being reconstructed, Saratoga is the host park for the subsequent three years.
Preakness takes home at Pimlico Move Route in Baltimore in a fast two-week turnaround, and it appears to be like Mystik Dan’s trainer feels it’ll even be a bigger transfer to let the horse skip the mosey and put together for the Belmont Stakes.
Whereas Mystik Dan is tranquil undecided about the mosey, Sierra Leone, who carried out a nose on the aid of Mystik Dan on Saturday, is confirmed as no longer racing in Preakness. Sierra Leone’s trainer, Chad Brown, said the the horse will slouch to Saratoga to coach for the Belmont Stakes.
Various other horses, at the side of third-home finisher Forever Young and fourth-home finisher Catching Freedom, are tranquil no longer committed to Preakness.