RadioOnFire.com - BALTIMORE (AP) — Minutes before the Preakness, it was an ominous scene at Pimlico Race Course. Thunder and lightning. Wind and rain. A record crowd scrambling for cover. A drenched racetrack.
Nothing — absolutely nothing — was going to stop American Pharoah, especially the competition.
Thunder rumbled as the starting gate opened, and the Kentucky Derby winner took charge early on and overpowered seven rivals, winning by seven lengths to put trainer Bob Baffert back in the Triple Crown groove.
“Great horses do great things,” Baffert said after his sixth Preakness victory, “and he showed it today. He’s just an incredible horse.”
And in three weeks, the stage will be set for the ultimate drama in racing — a Triple Crown attempt at the Belmont Stakes in New York.
“I don’t even want to think about the Triple Crown right now,’ the 62-year-old trainer said. “I want to enjoy this. It’s tough up there.”
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