Good luck making money on this one…

According to The Online Wire, The Belmont Stakes are currently giving Kentucky Derby Champ Mine That Bird 6/5 odds as the favorite to win the last leg of the Triple Crown. Not exactly a long shot herself, Preakness champ Rachel Alexandra is next up at 5/2.

Some of the other’s getting consideration from the handicappers include Dunkirk – 4/1, the highly touted Charitable Man – 9/2, and the R&B sensation Chocolate Candy – 14/1.

Last year, Triple Crown Contender Big Brown hit the gate at Belmont Park as a 4/1 favorite before laying a huge egg, finishing dead last, and costing me $80 bucks crushing my dreams . Mine That Bird won’t get to this level of lopsided, but with Rachel Alexandra’s cachet continuing to slip due to the uncertainty that she’ll even race it wouldn’t surprise me if MTB entered next week’s race with an overwhelming amount of hype to live up to.


Da’Tara loyalists love Luv Gov at 40-1.

Years from now, I plan to sit my kids down (appropriately after yet another family outing to the local OTB) and tell them the tale of the most dangerous sporting event I ever went to. This story will have nothing to do with the hoards of Yankees-Red Sox games I’ve attended. Even at there most explosive, those games pale in comparison to the 2008 Preakness.

Last year, I did a three-part blog series for Yahoo! Sports chronicling the three trips I made to the sites of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. It was an ultimate sports odyssey, only problem is that the second leg in Pimlico has nothing to do with sports (see my full post on The Preakness on Yahoo!)….

After conquering the Derby, I felt sufficiently conditioned to take on the Preakness. But, now, after taking down the Preakness, I’m wondering if I didn’t inadvertently test out of the first year of SWAT school. Louisville gets wild no doubt, but Preakness has one speed: zero to volatility, in an instant. To its credit, the Kentucky Derby was also impressively reckless. This, however, is Gomorrah…

You think I’m joking? I am not joking. Let’s take a look at some of the more memorable moments of Preakness past…

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Check out my post on Yahoo! Sports about the Preakness…an event which showed me a new form of depravity this weekend, and has nothing to do with horse racing.