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...Dancer's Image were human he would have spent the two weeks between the Derby and tomorrow's Preakness plotting his revenge, just waiting for the chance to meet Forward Pass--now the official Derby winner -- again and set the record straight. If the Dancer does win tomorrow down in Maryland it will be the most popular victory in the 93-year history of this middle leg of the Triple Crown--popular in Massachusetts where he is owned, and popular in Maryland where he was sired by the great Native Dancer...
...Dancer's Image is only a horse, a smallish three-year-old gray colt to whom the Preakness is just another mile and three-sixteenths of punishment to his chronically sore front ankles. And, poetic justice though it might be, he is not likely to give his fans the revenge they are expecting at Pimlico tomorrow...
...horse who goes for the lead right away, tiring himself by fighting for it if he has to or staying in front all the way if he does not. The more early speed there is in a race, the better it is for the come-from-behind horses like Dancer's Image who save ground and energy by running far back along the rail until they start to race in earnest for home. For pace handicapping, the Derby field was a textbook case. Forward Pass fought all the way with two speed demons named Kemucky Sherry and Captain...
Neither of those pace-setters will be in the Preakness tomorrow, and Forward Pass should be virtually unchallenged in the early running. The Preakness is the shortest of the Triple Crown events, and Dancer's Image will have a half-furlong less in which to make his move. His trainer knows that, of course, and perhaps for that reason sent the horse on an unusually short and speedy workout Tuesday. But strongly in Forward Pass favor is the surprisingly mediocre quality of the rest of the Preakness field, which includes several outrageous longshots and little apparent speed to take...
France's Hat-likely to be closest to Forward Pass and Dancer's Image, is a strong late-runner who has started running too late this year to yet win a single race. He was third in the Derby. Iron Ruler, who on occasion has early speed, ran so dismally in the Derby that he would have to be discounted even if he had not already lost several other races to Forward Pass and Dancer's Image. Sir Beau, Out of the Way, and Dancer's Image's half-brother Jig Time are all late-runners who have...