Lukas Back for More in Preakness With American Promise

While coach Bill Mott is avoiding a two -week change in the preakness stakes (G1) with Kentucky Derby’s winner (G1) Sovereignty So that his foal expects Belmont’s bets (G1) on June 7, the Preakness will still have a Derby competitor trained by another member of the Hall of Fame, D. Wayne Lukas.

Lukas, 89, directs the winner of Virginia Derby American promise A foal that could the legend of training an eighth record victory in the preakness of 1 3/16 miles, the second jewel of the triple crown. The Potro de Lukas will need to overcome a medium -sized field, including two 3 -year -old children trained by the member of the Fame Hall Bob Boffert, who currently has the Preakness victory record and is shooting for his ninth victory. Baffert runs the winner of Wood Memorial Stakes (G2) Rodríguez Rayado del Derbi in Churchill Downs Due to a foot problem, and Objective oriented A promising winner of each or its two openings.

The participation of Lukas in Preakness Stakes has become an almost annual event since he first rose to the heights of the sport, winning with his first head of PreakssESS when Codex triumphed in 1980. No coach has run that Luk and the second triple stage survived many of his counterparts. 48 horses have begun in the races in the last 45 years, leaving it with 41 losses to accompany their seven wins.

Duration asked a national teleconference of the Association of Racing Phideos de Pura Blood May 8 Which of those defeats could have been one that escaped, Lukas replied: “Each of” EM “?”

“The coach,” as he is nicknamed, is from the Wayne Gretzky Thought School that “100% of the shots you don’t take is lost.”

“I always felt very sure with the horses I brought there,” Lukas continued before adding that his memory has vanished.

Later the NTRA teleconference would recognize that Bravazo —A second closure in the fog to Justify In the 2018 Preakness, it was a strange failure that was wondering what a leg could have with a change in the tactics or the fate of the races.

In fact, the preakness registration books would be different if that medium length decision in 2018 disappeared on the other side. Baffert would be a victory behind Lukas, instead of the other way around. Even so, if Lukas had to lose, he said he was slippery, the victory went to Baffert, his friend. Justify would become a triple crown winner and any stallion, by chance, serving American promise .

Then his Preakssness account is located in the seven. Besighes Codex, Lukas won the 1985 Prakets with Tank’s perspective, the 1994 renewal with Tabasco Cat, the 1995 preams with Timber Country, the 1999 race with charismatic, the 2013 classic with Oxbow And more recently, Take advantage of gray Last year. The victory of the letter gave him 15 general victories in Triple Crown events.

If American Promise can join that select company as preakness winner will be determined on May 17 in the final bets of Preakness in “Old” Pimlico career course. A new installation will be built, replacing the aged tribune, and Laurel Park It will serve as a temporary duration of the reconstruction home.

Lukas believes that American Promise was compromised in the derby.

“Everything comes to hell in a hand task from the door when Bull Citizen approached,” Lukas said on the front corridor trained by Baffert who broke out on the road to other Derby corridors, one of which was his horse.

American Promise then pursued the rhythm inside, and with the Nik Juárez rider looking to go to the front with American Promise for the setback, “he tried to divide two horses and closed it and that is the end,” Lukas said.

Thirdly, a head behind a demanding Derby fraction of six humas or 1: 10.78, American Promise withered to finish 38 1/2 lengths behind Sovereignty . The other two main, Neoquos and Citizen bull It faded to 13 and 15, respectively. The best runners of Kentucky derby, including second place Journalism —The only one of the best runners under consideration for the preakness, recovered from the middle or the back of the package.

As usual, the Preakness will include some new shooters in the triple crown, including a number that has not been tested in graduated bets.

Among them is Intelligent again Trained by the two -time preakness winner Steve Asmussen. A son of Pharoah American Property of Winchell Thoroughbreds and Coolmore’s affiliate, Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith, Clever Again is perfect in two openings this year, winning a single race and the stakes Hot Spring, both in Oaklawn Park. He had been second in his only beginning when he debuted 13 months ago. Handkerchief.

His performance in Springs Hot Springs earned him a speed figure of 108 Equibase, higher than the 103 sovereign of 103 published in the derby, he thought that intelligent again did not face the depth of the talent or the elements like those who ran in a careless derby of Kentucky.

“He has shown a lot of talent, obviously. He is definitely mature beyond his careers,” said Asmussen, a member of the Hall of Fame and the most winning coach in North America in the history of pure blood races.