Preakness 2018: Post positions and morning line odds
Those two headline the field of eight drawn Wednesday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
Justify, who is unbeaten in four career starts, drew Post 7 (same as the Derby) and was assigned 1-2 morning line favoritism. The 2-year-old champion Good Magic will wear the No. 5 saddle towel as the 3-1 second choice.
Justify arrived earlier Wednesday to Pimlico.
"No hiccups," said his trainer, Bob Baffert, of the travel. "..Horse shipped well. He was full of himself when he got off the van."
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| Post | Horse | Trainer/Jockey | Odds |
| 1. | Quip | Brisset/Geroux | 12-1 |
| 2. | Lone Sailor | Amoss/Ortiz Jr. | 15-1 |
| 3. | Sporting Chance | Lukas/Contreras | 30-1 |
| 4. | Diamond King | Servis/Castellano | 30-1 |
| 5. | Good Magic | Brown/Ortiz | 3-1 |
| 6. | Tenfold | Asmussen/Santana Jr. | 20-1 |
| 7. | Justify | Baffert/Smith | 1-2 |
| 8. | Bravazo | Lukas/Saez | 20-1 |
The Kentucky Derby ran over a sloppy track, with similar conditions expected this weekend at Pimlico.
To get a dry surface, Good Magic trainer Chad Brown said, "is just another little thing we could have changed about the Derby to maybe help us turn the tables. You don’t want to run the same exact race where everyone runs the same exact way and on the same exact track.
"Obviously," Brown added, "we already have some changes here: We’re at a different track on two weeks’ rest, with different posts, and a slightly different distance. To run on a dry track would be nice as an additional something different.”
Also coming back from the Derby in the Preakness are Bravazo (sixth) and Lone Sailor (eighth). Top "new shooters" -- horses that haven't yet run in a Triple Crown race -- include graded stakes winners Quip, Sporting Chance and Diamond King.
“You want some good horses in there,” Baffert said. “There is nothing wrong with taking another shot. (Good Magic's) going to be tough. There are some nice horses in there. It’s not a gimme.”
Baffert has taken four previous Preakness Stakes he's entered with a Derby winner, most recently with American Pharoah in 2015.
Post time for Saturday's Preakness -- the 13th of 14 races carded at Pimlico -- is 6:20 p.m. ET.