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BALTIMORE (AP) — War Will bounced back from a rocky ride at the Kentucky Derby to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, holding off a field that included a riderless horse that drove his jockey out of the gate and kept running.
Trainer Mark Casse got his first Triple Crown victory, with War of Will unfazed beginning from the inner No. 1 post position for the second consecutive race. War of Will suffered a rough trip and was interfered with at the Kentucky Derby, which led to first-place finisher Maximum Security being disqualified.
Casse was just thankful War Will didn’t go down in the Derby, which could’ve been a multihorse catastrophe.
“That is even I think likely more particular given everything that we have been through,” Casse explained. “I’m not calling it redemption. I didn’t feel as though he got his fair shot, and that is all I wanted — a fair shot. And he showed what he had today.”
War of Will was.
Bodexpress threw Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez just out of the starting gate but still ended the race and also did an additional lap around the Pimlico track. An outrider tried to swoop in at the peak of the stretch and corral Bodexpress, but the horse sped up and passed a few competitors near the finish line — and kept moving. Technically, Bodexpress gets a did-not-finish.
“He wasn’t behaving well,” said Velazquez, who added he’s fine and would not seek medical attention. “Once the doors opened, I had been off directly from the start and he sort of jumped sideways, and I had my feet out and I lost my balance and went outside.”
War of Will made a movement round the last turn directed by jockey Tyler Gaffalione and didn’t relent down the stretch. Hard-charging overdue addition Everfast came in Owendale and second third. Casse, 58, entered a horse in the Preakness for the fifth time and came two years ago when Classic Empire finished next.
“I am just very happy for Mark to receive his very first Classic win,” Gaffalione said. “pleased for your horse. He deserved it more than anything. He is so unique.”
Additionally, it is a breakthrough for Gaffalione, that is now something of a rising star since being called top apprentice riders in 2015. Gaffalione, 24, was aboard War Will for the colt’s sixth consecutive race and came away with the biggest success of his young career.
“It really has not even hit me yet,” he said. “I can not even put it into words.
Bob Baffert-trained Improbable was defeated as the favorite for the 2nd consecutive Triple Crown race. Improbable finished sixth at the 13-horse area that was the biggest at the Preakness since 2011.
It was the very first Preakness run without the Kentucky Derby winner since 1996 — now without the horse which crossed the finish line first and the long-shot Country House who was raised to first after Maximum Security was disqualified for interference. Return to 1951 for the previous time the Preakness was run with no top four finishers in the Derby.
The race has been run in a time for horse racing.
After 23 horse deaths at Santa Anita Park within a two-year interval, there was still another in coaching Friday, and a filly collapsed and died after a race at Pimlico on Friday. Then there was that the disqualification of Maximum Security in Churchill Downs and the ensuing lawsuit filed by owners Gary and Mary West and suspension handed down to jockey Luis Saez.
Back in Marylandthe Stronach Group that owns the trail — and also Santa Anita — is headquartered in an ongoing quarrel with local politicians across the future of the Preakness being at historical but aging Pimlico or the owners’ favored Laurel Park about 30 miles south. Over 6,000 grandstand seats were cordoned off since they were deemed dangerous, and a water main break disrupted preparations for the event and left a lack of running water on race day.
All over the nation, horse racing is fending off a threat to the very existence in the kind of legalized sports gambling. Yet the Maryland Jockey Club reported a record presence and amount wager on Black-Eyed Susan Day on Friday.

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