Wet Preakness Forecast and Muth's Withdrawal Impact Race
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00:03 Looking like sloppy conditions for Saturday.
00:07 And obviously, Muth getting scratched
00:10 has changed the dynamic of this race immediately.
00:15 Yeah, it does feel like it's going to be
00:17 some wet weather on Saturday.
00:18 It was looking like the forecast might turn positive yesterday,
00:21 but the recent forecast do seem like we're
00:22 going to have a sloppy track for the Saturday's creepiness.
00:26 And yeah, Muth coming out of the race is a major development.
00:28 He was scratched with a fever yesterday morning.
00:31 That was announced by his trainer, Bob Baffert.
00:34 The big story coming into the creepiness
00:36 was that Bob Baffert was going to have a couple of fresh horses
00:38 coming in to challenge the Kentucky Derby winner, Mystic
00:41 Dan.
00:41 But now his top prospect for the race, Muth,
00:44 who actually was the morning line favorite for the race,
00:46 he's been scratched.
00:47 So makes it an easier task now for the Kentucky Derby
00:50 winner to win that second jewel of the Triple Crown.
00:52 So this race, and I've been to it,
00:56 there's been a ton of horses in the past that have, frankly,
01:00 come out, set the pace, and won the race.
01:02 It's happened time and again.
01:06 Are there horses that you see that have an advantage there
01:12 in getting out front early and keeping it?
01:16 Yeah, I think a lot of people would say now
01:18 it is the other Bob Baffert horse in the race, the number
01:21 nine imagination.
01:22 He looked like he was going to control the pace up front,
01:24 along with Muth, when they were both drawn in the race.
01:27 But now, with his stablemate out of the race,
01:29 it does feel like imagination is going to be alone up front.
01:32 And he's definitely a contender in this race.
01:34 But since Bob Baffert was banned from the Kentucky Derby,
01:37 now for the third consecutive year,
01:39 we haven't seen how these Bob Baffert trainees stack up
01:42 against some of the best three-year-olds in the country
01:44 that they will be facing in this Creek mistake.
01:46 So imagination is getting a class test,
01:48 but he is the horse that's going to be in front early.
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