For the eighth year in a row, America’s Best Racing is challenging some of the brightest minds in horse betting to come up with their top three picks for key races every weekend leading up to the 2024 Triple Crown and then continuing through the 2024 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The handicappers face off in what we like to call the “Big-Race Showdown.”

Another year, another U.S. Triple Crown race clouded by a rainy forecast.

Like the Longines Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve earlier this month, the Preakness Stakes has racing fans and bettors checking their weather app(s) regularly the week of the classic race in hopes of a promising update.