Rick Lee’s Preakness Stakes selections and analysis
Rick Lee's Preakness Stakes analysis
Horse Racing
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Mystik Dan jockey excels while on rail
BALTIMORE -- Brian Hernandez Jr. spent the leadup to the Kentucky Derby watching replays of winning rides by fellow jockeys to see what it would take to get th…
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Fever forces Muth to skip second leg
BALTIMORE -- Preakness favorite Muth has been ruled out of the race after spiking a fever, removing a horse trained by Bob Baffert and potentially giving Kentu…
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Mystik Dan won’t get shot at Muth, Baffert
It is always a good thing for the field when the favorite drops out of a horse race, especially if he's coming off two impressive wins.
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Mystik Dan gets No. 5 Preakness post
BALTIMORE -- Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan drew the No. 5 post position in the Preakness Stakes on Monday looking to sweep the first two legs of horse racin…
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Trainer OKs Mystik Dan to run in Preakness Stakes
A two-time Preakness-winning jockey advised a Preakness-winning trainer that the horseman's first Kentucky Derby winner is worthy of entering the middle jewel …
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Arkansas’ horse adds to Oaklawn’s legacy
In the late afternoon on May 4, by oral declaration, Mystik Dan became Arkansas' horse, joining the beloved Smart Jones, who captured our hearts in 2004 by win…
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Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan is heading to the Preakness after all
Mystik Dan, the horse who won the Kentucky Derby by a nose in the race’s closest finish in more than a half-century, is heading to the Preakness next weekend a…
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Williams working toward WNBA debut
Former Central Arkansas Christian All-American basketball player and Gatorade player of the year Christyn Williams has spent the past two years in rehab and re…
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Visit Hot Springs to release trading cards featuring 150th Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan
HOT SPRINGS -- Visit Hot Springs is joining in the celebration of Mystik Dan's Kentucky Derby win by releasing 30,000 trading cards featuring the 3-year-old ba…
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Uncertain plans
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The second jewel of horse racing's Triple Crown could be missing 150th Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan and other co-stars, quashing hopes f…
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Derby winner no lock for Preakness
When the officials from Pimlico Race Course called Kenny McPeek on Sunday morning to offer an official invitation to the Preakness Stakes, the trainer had but …
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Mystikal finish: Oaklawn horse has a nose in front at the wire in Kentucky Derby
The 150th Kentucky Derby produced one of the most dramatic finishes in its storied history — three noses at the wire. Mystik Dan desperately fought to hang on …
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Mystik Dan, southeast Arkansas-owned horse, wins 150th Kentucky Derby by nose
It was only by a nose, but that was all it took for Mystik Dan to bring home a Kentucky Derby victory to southeast Arkansas.
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Wide-open ride: Favored Fierceness has connections, lacks a perfect post
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Fate has not been kind to Mike Repole in the Kentucky Derby. The outspoken owner is 0 for 7, although he is perhaps best known for his two c…
