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Exclusive: Watch Who won Preakness Stakes 2024? Is Mystik Dan’s Triple Crown bid still alive? Results, payouts, order of finish
Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan lost his Triple Crown bid on Saturday when Seize the Grey went gate to wire to win the Preakness Stakes on a muddy track at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.
Seize the Grey, with 25-year-old Jaime Torres aboard, held off Mystik Dan coming down the stretch and pulled away in the final 100 yards. Seize the Grey went off at 9-1, one of the longest shots on the board.
After winning the Derby two weeks ago in a historic three-horse photo finish at Churchill Downs, Mystik Dan became the favorite in the mile and 3/16 race for 3-year-olds after Muth was scratched earlier this week. But Seize the Gray, trained by D. Wayne Lukas, never faded.
Lukas, who is 88, became the oldest trainer to win a Preakness Stakes. It’s his seventh Preakness win.
Muth, who was ineligible to run in the Derby because of Churchill Downs’ ban on trainer Bob Baffert, was installed as the 8-5 favorite but was withdrawn after developing a 103-degree fever.
The final leg of the Triple Crown will run in the Belmont Stakes, which will be held for the first time at the Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York because of renovations at Belmont Park in New York.