Here’s a recap of every race in Saturday’s program on 2025 Preakness Day at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
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The Batoff Goldie
Saturday’s opening race, a 6-furlong race, broke on a track in good condition despite Friday’s storms.
Radical Right led out of the gate and around the first turn before Augusta Melody took control approaching the final stretch and secured the day’s first win, finishing in 1 minute, 10.76 seconds. Jockeyed by Irad Ortiz Jr., the heavy favorite paid out $3.80 on a $2 bet to win, $2.80 on a $2 bet to place and $2.40 on a $2 bet to show.
The Old Friends Purse
The first race on the Pimlico turf provided the first longshot win and the narrowest victory of the morning. The Amazing Mizzen, with 40-1 odds racing out of the No. 2 position, took control of the 1-mile sprint late to clinch the second race of the day and beat Betula (Great Britain) by a head length.
Jockeyed by J.G. Torrealba and trained by Susan S. Cooney, The Amazing Mizzen ran in 1 minute, 43.42 seconds. The victory paid out $89.60, $29.20 and $14.00. Miss Ellary led for much of the race, and the favorite, Drop the Hammer, finished sixth.
The Donald Butler Memorial Race
Legendary trainer Bob Baffert secured his first win in Saturday’s third race, a 1 1/16 mile run, with Varney, which led for much of the race and ran in 1 minute, 43.80 seconds for a comfortable victory. Jockeyed by Flavien Prat, Varney’s win paid out $3.60, $2.10 and $2.10.
Baffert, whose eight Preakness wins are the most by a trainer in the race’s history, has a horse in the day’s penultimate event again this year.
The 38th Running of The Maryland Sprint Stakes
Booth, jockeyed by Erik Asmussen and trained by Steven Asmussen, won the fourth race of the day as the favorite entering it. Booth led nearly wire-to-wire, increasing its lead around the first and second turns of the 6-furlong run for a comfortable victory that paid out $3.80, $2.40 and $2.10.
What started as a five-horse race became four when Concrete Glory was slow to get going out of the No. 5 starting gate and didn’t finish. Epic Ride placed and Celtic Contender showed.
Race 5
The 5-furlong run, the second turf race of the day, was won by the longest shot through five races. Preparefortakeoff, with 50-1 odds, took its first lead around the final turn and staved off Noquestionaboutit late to win and finish in 1 minute, 0.61 seconds.
Jockey Jean Briceno’s upset victory paid out $113.20, $56.60 and $23.00.
The 32nd Running of The Skipat Stakes
Back on the dirt, several lead changes down the final stretch made for one of the most exciting finishes of the day. Zeitlos, a 3-1 favorite jockeyed by Jose Ortiz and trained by Steven Asmussen, made the strongest late push to win in 1 minute, 11.20 seconds.
Zeitlos took the outside around the final turn after not leading until then and charged past Striker Has Dial, One Magic Philly and Disco Ebo as the group neared the finish. The win paid out $8.40, $4.20 and $2.20.
The 74th Running of The Gallorette Stakes
The seventh race marked the halfway point of Saturday’s 14-race program, and it featured a wire-to-wire winner in Charlene’s Dream.
With a 1-minute, 46.92-second finish out of the No. 4 post on the turf, Charlene’s Dream led out of the gate and was hardly challenged. Jockey Umberto Rispoli and trainer Ed Moger Jr.’s win paid out $18.20, $8.40 and $5.80 at 8-1 odds.
The 50th Running of The Chick Lang Stakes
There was little separating the 11-horse race for much of the 6-furlong run until Retribution, jockeyed by Irad Ortiz Jr. and starting in the end No. 11 position, pulled away late for Ortiz’s second victory of the day.
Retribution beat out second-place Touchy and third-place Ancient World in 1 minute, 11.27 seconds. The win paid out $20, $9.40 and $6 at 9-1 odds entering the fourth Stakes race of the afternoon.
The 20th Running of The Jim McKay Turf Sprint
The ninth race of the day was perhaps the most dramatic.
The nine-horse sprint turned into a four-horse battle by the final stretch and featured several lead changes. It appeared the winner would come from the threesome of No Nay Hudson, Determined Kingdom and Coppola, who traded advantages late, before Witty, which closed with 5-2 odds, emerged from behind to win it in 59.61 seconds.
The win from jockey Flavien Prat and trainer Elizabeth Merryman paid out $7.80, $3.60 and $2.60.
The 27th Running of The Sir Barton Stakes
The 1 1/16-mile race was one of the day’s most lopsided. Crudo, jockeyed by John Velazquez and trained by Todd Pletcher, led from the second turn and won Saturday’s 10th race by 7 1/2 lengths to pay out $9.40, $5.40 and $2.40.
Crudo, who entered with 7-2 odds and ran in 1 minute, 44 seconds, beat out runner-up Just a Fair Shake and third-place finisher Invictus in the third-to-last race before the Preakness.
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The 60th Running of The James W. Murphy Stakes
The 1-mile sprint, the day’s penultimate run on turf, featured a come-from-behind win for 1/2 favorite Reagan’s Wit that paid out $3, $2.20 and $2.10.
Curahee led out of the gate from the No. 8 position and until the final turn, but it slowed there as a trio of horses surged past. Reagan’s Wit finished in 1 minute, 40.25 seconds with Twain and Soleil Volant placing and showing.
“The horse was just being silly,” Reagan’s Wit jockey Jose Ortiz told the NBC broadcast after his third victory of the day.
The 124th Running of The Dinner Party Stakes
A crowded field turned toward the final stretch of the 1 1/8-mile turf run, the last race before the evening’s main event, before Fort Washington pulled away with Cash Equity surging. It briefly looked like Cash Equity’s push would be enough, but Fort Washington, whose 5-1 odds were second-best entering the race, kept pace to win in 1 minute, 55.08 seconds.
Jockey Junior Alvarado and trainer Claude McCgaughey III’s win paid out $12, $6.40 and $4.60 and gives way to the 150th Preakness Stakes, set for a roughly 7 p.m. start.
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The 150th Running of The Preakness Stakes
The most entertaining race of the evening was the middle jewel of the Triple Crown. Journalism, which finished second in the Kentucky Derby, won the final Preakness Stakes at Pimlico as it currently stands in a photo finish against Gosger, who led for most of the 1 3/16-mile run but couldn’t stave off a late Journalism surge.
Journalism, jockeyed by Umberto Rispoli and trained by Michael McCarthy, entered as the favorite with Derby winner Sovereignty not participating, instead skipping the second leg of the Triple Crown to focus on the Belmont Stakes next month.
Journalism owner Aron Wellman said “we would love” to race the Preakness winner at the Belmont.
UAE President Cup
The 14th and final race was less exciting than the one that came before it. Diamond Gem AA won going away, lengthening its already sizable lead around the final turn to punctuate the last Preakness Saturday at the current Pimlico structure.
The Carol Credeno-jockeyed victory paid out $2.80, $2.20 and $2.10.
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