Journalism Wins, Gosger Places, Sandman Shows
The post Journalism Wins, Gosger Places, Sandman Shows appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Journalism, with Umberto Rispoli up, wins the 150th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday, May 17, 2025, in Baltimore. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) TNS Running back from the Kentucky Derby after a swift two weeks off, Journalism brightly and with dispatch showed his steel by running down the presumed winner, 15/1 longshot Gosger, in the last sixteenth of a mile of the $2-million 150th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico. Going off at even money, Journalism overtook Gosger to win by a half-length, clocking in at 1:55.47 on a dry track. He paid an expectedly low $4.00. Arguably proving that he’s the toughest colt in the Triple Crown Class of 2025, Journalism did not come by the win lightly. Pimlico’s surface was a vast improvement on that of waterlogged Churchill two weeks ago, and the traffic was, on paper anyway, lighter by more than half, but the problems Journalism had to untangle at race speed were greater than those he managed to solve in his place showing at Churchill. Journalism broke well enough from his inside post, and jockey Umberto Rispoli settled him inside and back in the peloton, floating in and out of sixth in the nine-horse field, at times as much as five lengths off the lead. That settling sort-of seesaw did manage to save ground out of the first turn, up the backside and into the far turn, a fact later cited and praised by trainer Michael McCarthy as contributing directly to the win. It didn’t initially look like the winning strategy in the doing. Because: It was axiomatic — exiting onto the stretch out of the grandstand turn, just one horse from the rail — that Journalism would get boxed in. In front of him, Journalism found early speed Clever…
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Journalism, with Umberto Rispoli up, wins the 150th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday, May 17, 2025, in Baltimore. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) TNS Running back from the Kentucky Derby after a swift two weeks off, Journalism brightly and with dispatch showed his steel by running down the presumed winner, 15/1 longshot Gosger, in the last sixteenth of a mile of the $2-million 150th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico. Going off at even money, Journalism overtook Gosger to win by a half-length, clocking in at 1:55.47 on a dry track. He paid an expectedly low $4.00. Arguably proving that he’s the toughest colt in the Triple Crown Class of 2025, Journalism did not come by the win lightly. Pimlico’s surface was a vast improvement on that of waterlogged Churchill two weeks ago, and the traffic was, on paper anyway, lighter by more than half, but the problems Journalism had to untangle at race speed were greater than those he managed to solve in his place showing at Churchill. Journalism broke well enough from his inside post, and jockey Umberto Rispoli settled him inside and back in the peloton, floating in and out of sixth in the nine-horse field, at times as much as five lengths off the lead. That settling sort-of seesaw did manage to save ground out of the first turn, up the backside and into the far turn, a fact later cited and praised by trainer Michael McCarthy as contributing directly to the win. It didn’t initially look like the winning strategy in the doing. Because: It was axiomatic — exiting onto the stretch out of the grandstand turn, just one horse from the rail — that Journalism would get boxed in. In front of him, Journalism found early speed Clever…
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