on CNBC, with NBC broadcasting from 4:30 – 7:30 p.m. Traditionalists balk at the slightest mention of a change in the Triple Crown schedule when in fact, it wasn’t until fifty years ago that a horse won the Triple Crown as it’s currently configured more than half of the horses that we recognize as Triple Crown winners won the series when it was significantly different from the series we know.Īnd if Mage wins the Preakness and goes on to win the Belmont, no one will care about or remember what horses he beat and how many horses he ran against. breeders need to focus more on stamina than on speed?
Should the races be shortened? Should there be more time between races? Do U.S. That means that, after racing two weeks ago, Mage will face a field of fresh horses, and that means conversations about the format of the Triple Crown and what needs to be done to encourage more Derby starters to run in all three races. And while some observers think that the Derby field is too big, there’s been grumbling on horse racing Twitter (generally a contrarian lot) that the Preakness field is too small, especially as Derby winner Mage is the only horse that will run in the first two legs of the Triple Crown.
Even with the unusually high number of scratches, 18 horses vied for the roses two weeks ago. What the Preakness doesn’t have that the Derby did is…a lot of horses running.
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