Preakness

Racehorse Seize the Grey took the lead at the 2024 Preakness Stakes on Saturday and never looked back, capturing the Triple Crown event at 9 to 1 odds. A $2 bet on the gray colt to win paid $21.60. The win was unique in another way: 2,570 individual investors bought micro shares of the horse...

In spite of the fact that there will be no Triple Crown champion in 2022, this year’s Preakness on Saturday is still an exciting race, and could possibly set us up for a thrilling showdown in three weeks when the Belmont Stakes is contested. The owners and trainers of the surprise winner of...

Does a Super Bowl trophy glow as brightly when the victory is against a second-string defense? What if the seventh game of the World Series was only seven innings long?Unfortunately, we're about to view a Belmont Stakes with a watered down field. Monopolies in the business world are frowned...

Whereas the Kentucky Derby field of 20 horses still yielded nice payouts, the eight-horse field in the Preakness Stakes doesn’t offer a similar risk-reward scenario. Handicappers that went with the favorite in the Derby, Justify at 5-2 odds, profited a respectable $5.80 for every $2 wagered....

On Saturday, Always Dreaming will attempt to win the second leg of the elusive Triple Crown against a field of nine other horses in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Track. Excitement? The Preakness, which usually shapes up as the least attractive race to wager of the three legs, is staying...

One year ago, the horse racing world was abuzz with the prospect of the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978, and American Pharoah delivered triumphantly in the Belmont Stakes. No Triple Crown This Year, But It'll Be Quite A Race This year's hope to produce back-to-back winners of the...

As has always been the thrilling scenario, the two weeks between the Kentucky Derby and Preakness fuel fans' fervor for a Triple Crown winner. In 2012, I'll Have Another never made it to the gate for the Belmont, and in 2014, California Chrome could not muster a rally in the stretch for the sweep....

In his latest book, Flash Boys, Michael Lewis contends the stock market is "rigged" in favor of institutional investors who buy and sell securities rapidly with computer programs, booking loads of tiny profits. This is at the expense of the individual investor, Lewis claims. Actually, it is the...