With the online sports betting media on hand at Pimlico race track for a press conference ahead of the 2011 Preakness Stakes on Monday, a familiar face made a bold prediction for the second leg of this year’s Triple Crown. The half-horse, half-man mascot for the race is called the Kegasus, and it predicted with certainty that 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom will win this year’s Preakness Stakes. Animal Kingdom will be the 4-1 early favorite to win the race, but there will be a couple of familiar contenders that will look the challenge it.
Unavailable for the 2011 Preakness Stakes betting race is one of the top early contenders to win this year’s Kentucky Derby in Uncle Mo, which will not go due to a stomach infection that ultimately cost him an opportunity at the race at Churchill Downs. Dialed In was the pre-race favorite at 4-1 at Kentucky, but will be a 10-1 shot at Pimlico after a disastrous eighth-place finish in which he faded early at Kentucky and failed to make any ground. The best couple of chances that there are to push Animal Kingdom are Mucho Macho Man and Nehro, which both looked good at the derby. The case was similar when the season opened with a wide open field in which the early favorites for Kentucky were hammered, but this time Animal Kingdom looks like a legitimate Triple Crown contender to at least come close.
Historic Churchill Downs will once again be ready for the most prestigious event in horse racing this May 7, when the 2011 Kentucky Derby goes for its 137th running. Once again, 20 of the finest three-year-old thoroughbreds in the country will get the call to post for the annual “Run for the Roses”, and while everything from post position to how the horses fare in the 