Kentucky Derby victor Rich Strike testament not follow a Triple Crown. Owner Rick Dawson said inwards a financial statement published by the MD Jockey Club Th that his 3-year-old colt will bypass the Preakness Stakes at Baltimore’s Pimlico Race Course on May 21.

Instead, the connections plan to educate for next month’s Belmont Stakes.

In the statement, Dawson said their program for the Equus caballus was contingent on(p) on getting inward the Derby. The colt was an also-eligible and got into the rush cobbler's last Fri just moments before the deadline, as trainer D. Anthony Wayne Lukas scratched his entry, Ethereal Road. Rich Strike and then entered the race and shocked the reality as an 80-1 long shot. His win was just now the endorse for a Equus caballus that stony-broke from the 20th gate and produced the second-largest payout inward the 148 runnings of the event.

After the monumental win, Dawson pointed to the regime trainer Eric Walter Reed held inward prepping Rich Strike for the Derby. That included a schedule where he did not race more than Little Phoebe weeks apart, which is the time betwixt the Bluegrass State Derby and Belmont.

Obviously, with our tremendous exertion and win in the Derby it’s very, real tempting to alter our course of study and running play in the Preakness at Pimlico, which would live a outstanding reward for all our group,” Dawson said. “However, after a great deal word and considerateness with my trainer, Eric Reed, and a few others, we are going to stay with our programme of what’s topper for Ritchie is what’s topper for our group.”

Epicenter, the post-time Derby favourite Rich Strike chased mastered in the net strides, is expected to ravel in the Preakness. So, too, is Bluegrass State Oaks-winning filly Secret Oath, also trained by Lukas.

KHRC Says No Failed Derby Drug Tests This Year

The conclusion to keep back Rich Strike from the Preakness comes single twenty-four hour period after the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) announced there no more Derby runners failed their post-race dose test.

Last year, Al Madinah Spirit was the foremost under the wire and received the garland of roses for winning the prestigious race. However, reports came out a hebdomad later that the Bob Baffert-trained colt had exuberant amounts of betamethasone inward his system.

The inquiry would last-place for months as the courts became involved regarding questions on manipulation the split sample. Eventually, KHRC stewards disqualified Al Madinah Spirit as the victor and issued a 90-day suspension to Baffert. The trainer is currently serving the suspension, but he’s also appealing the ruling.

Churchill Downs also handed downwardly a two-year suspension system lowest twelvemonth after the failed do drugs test. That determination barred the legendary trainer from racing horses at any of the company’s tracks. It also prohibited any Baffert-trained gymnastic horse from earning qualifying points for either the KY Derby or Bluegrass State Oaks.

Baffert is thought-provoking Winston Churchill Downs’ ban in federal court.

Who Will Run inwards the Preakness

The field for the Preakness won’t live localize until next week. But, as well Epicenter and Secret Oath, there have got been a few others who feature already committed to the 1-3/16th-mile race.

That includes Fountain of Youth Stakes victor Simplification, who ruined quaternary inward the Derby, and Early Voting. Chad Brown trains the latter colt, who earned sufficiency points to run inwards the Kentucky Derby, but his connections decided to dot him toward the back precious stone inwards the Triple Crown instead.

Another horse expected to run for is Creative Minister. Trainer Kenny McPeak described his colt as a late bloomer. He didn’t race lastly year. This year, he started with a second-place finishing inward a maiden race at Gulfstream Park inwards March. Since then, he’s rattled away back-to-back wins inwards a maiden rush last-place month at Keeneland and an tolerance rush on the KY Derby undercard.

“Last year as a 2-year-old, he had development issues, simply requisite to a greater extent time,” McPeek said. “We kept giving him more time, and he didn’t create the races until betimes March. But he’s really shown calmness and talent. You don’t get many opportunities for these things. His race Sabbatum was ultra-impressive.”

Another possibility is Un Ojo. The one-eyed victor of the Arkansas Derby at 75-1 was localize to get in the Kentucky Derby until a pocket-size foot up bruise forced his connections to mark him before the draw.

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