BALTIMORE -- The week started with the highly unusual situation where the winner of the Kentucky Derby was not the favorite to win the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of horse racing's Triple Crown.
Mystik Dan won the 150th running of the race two weeks ago by a nose and that came after a near perfect trip along the rail. Can't happen like that again, can it?
But then things started to change when the favorite, Muth, the horse who beat Mystik Dan in the Arkansas Derby, scratched out of the race with a fever. Fate or fortune?
Then the weather forecast started to indicate a wet Saturday and Mystik Dan's most impressive win was an eight-length victory in the Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn over a muddy track.
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