Goal Oriented Gets Shot at a Starring Role in Preakness

If you return in time in mid -March, the “The Avengers” property group had a triple crown depth list of enough impression.

All trained by the member of the Hall of Fame and the two -time triple Crown Bob Boffert winner, included 2 -year -old champion Citizen bull ” Madoket Road ” Rodríguez ” Exhaust car and CORNUCOPIC

Now let’s see towards May 17 and the 150th edition of The Preakness Stakes (G1), the second Joya of the Triple Crown in Pimlico career course.

“The Avengers” and Baffert will be represented in the classic of $ 2 million, 1 3/16 miles for … Objective oriented .

“Objective who?” You can ask.

Do not feel that it is a new name for you because in mid -March, the son of Not this time He was still a few weeks after his first career.

“It is a really pleasant horse,” said Baffert, owner of an eight victories in the preakness and whose words have much more influence and impact than the simple race lines in the past performances of Colt.

The goal -oriented saga began when it won its debut of April 6. Santa Anita Park And he continued when he captured an optional assignment claimant two weeks ago on the Kentucky Derby (G1) card of May 3 in Churchill Downs.

Finding a horse that won a classic in its third start and debut in bets could be a useless search. Mental frame He was second in Belmont Stakes (G1) last year with the same credentials. However, the connections believe that they are not taking a wild turn through the fences with an inexperienced corridor. They see enough potential at the end of the Potro on May 15 to believe that also with only two weeks or rest, it belongs to the field of nine 3 -year -old children that includes the second place of Kentucky Derby Journalism .

–Which will come on the useful Saturday while throwing the railroad–Win by three quarters of length at a distance of 1/16 miles on a careless runway.

“He left his single races, and I was looking for a race for him. I thought, I will take him with Churchill Downs and I will see how he drove a great day like that,” Baffert said. “It was law, and I had never had a law track before. I knew how that would affect.

Sir Barton bets for the 3 -year winds on the preakness day billboard were a possibility, but then the alignment of the Avengers was dragged.

Rodríguez, the Wood Memorial (G2) winner who was scraping from the Kentucky due to a feet problem, had been the target of the preakness. But then, when Baffert decided that he needed more to prepare it, Rodríguez was padded for Belmont Stakes (G1), and objective oriented, the unknown product two months, became the main event of Saturday.

“Apart from journalism, they are like me, trying to find out where they fit. Without him, he is open,” Baffert said. “I don’t think we have deepened the best of the objectives, but it will have to improve. His speed numbers are not the best, but what I see in the morning is a really good horse. He is raw and only learns to run.

As a footnote, the 150 ° Preakness could have a special meaning for Sol Kumin, who directs the Madaket stable group. Kumin has had a part of 99 winners of grade 1, and win the number 100 in Baltimore would have added meaning when he graduated and starred in the Lacrosse at Johns Hopkins University and still has strong ties with the university and the area.

“If Sol can reach 100 in the 150 ° Preakness, I would make Sun very happy,” Ryan said. “And we will all be very happy for him too.”