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Kentucky Derby winner Chateaugay will probably go off the favorite in Saturday's 87th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, but the smart money (Le., mine) is going on Candy Spots to redeem himself after his disappointing third place finish in the Churchill Downs classic...
Candy Spots' main competition will come not from Chateaugay, but Never Bend. The New York horse has won more than $500,000 in his 14-race career, and has never finished worse than third. The conditions of the Preakness are more favorable to Never Bend than the Derby, in which he ran second. Never Bend is a front-runner and the Preakness is a shade shorter than the Derby. Further more, No Robbery, the horse whose stout pressure helped tire Never Bend after he had run the first six furlongs of the Derby in a blistering...
...back in seventh place, twelve lengths behind Never Bend, Jockey Braulio Baeza was sitting chilly on Chateaugay. "He wanted to run" said Baeza, 23, a poker-faced Panamanian who rode his first U.S. horse scarcely three years ago. "I took a good hold and just waited...
...lead: caught in tight quarters along the rail, Willie Shoemaker was forced to check Candy Spots and take him wide. Then he swung his whip-and nothing happened. "I asked Spots to run," Shoemaker said sadly, "but he just wasn't there." One horse was there: Chateaugay. Ranging up on the outside, Chateaugay zoomed past No Robbery as if the two were traveling in opposite directions. Then he caught Candy Spots, and at the eighth pole, scant strides from the finish, Chateaugay pulled alongside Never Bend. He hung for an instant, and Jockey Baeza went to his whip...
...winner's circle, Chateaugay was still so frisky that he looked ready to run another 1¼ mi. He tossed his head, kicked angrily when a groom tried to drape the traditional garland of roses around his neck. Richer by $108,900, Owner Galbreath, whose Pirates that day had beaten the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0, to take first place in the National League, wisely kept out of range. Why ruin a lovely afternoon...