Hurricane Ike Targets Preakness

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Owned by Ike and Dawn Thrash, who will be represented in the Derby by upset Arkansas Derby (gr. I) victor Line of Victor, Hurricane Ike will not head to the Derby but may well be pointed to the Preakness Stakes (gr. I), for which the Derby Trial, run three weeks before the second leg of the Triple Crown, is by modern standards a perfectly well-placed prep.

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