The 150th Preakness Stakes may not have the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve winner, but it has the next best thing. Journalism, the runner-up in the Derby, heads the field of nine 3-year-olds and gives it some much-needed star power.
A solid nine-horse field is lined up for Saturday’s 150th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, and the $2 million second jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown shapes up as a good betting race despite a clear favorite in Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve runner-up Journalism.
Journalism may be in the record books as the seventh straight beaten favorite in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve, but that doesn't mean trainer Michael McCarthy has lost any faith in his Grade 1-winning 3-year-old colt.
This is the story of an obscure big-league baseball journeyman from a half-century ago and the Preakness Stakes horse that bears his name.
Jim Gosger is the former ballplayer, now an 82-year-old Michigan man who bounced around the Majors in the 1960s and ’70s with six different clubs, was the last batter to face immortal pitcher Satchel Paige, and who was once declared dead by the New York Mets.
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