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Plenty of Heartbreak Over Barbaro for Fans at Pimlico
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Celtic Innis was 25-1.
"I don't think there's been an [apprentice] rider named on 11 horses ever on Preakness Day, and not a girl [apprentice] named on 11," said Napravnik's agent, John Faltynski. "To finish second for $200,000 for owners who need the money is terrific."
Schaeffer Handicap
Trainer Barclay Tagg scratched his 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide out of the Grade I Pimlico Special on Friday, hoping to have an easier time of it in the $100,000 William Donald Schaefer Handicap. The other horses in the field, however, didn't cooperate.
After tracking a moderate pace, Funny Cide failed to rally and finished third behind Master Command, who won the 1 1/8 -mile dirt race in 1 minutes 49.42 seconds.
"He pulled me up in behind them, and I didn't have a place to go down the backstretch when he had a lot of run," said Richard Migliore, Funny Cide's jockey. "I think he got a little discouraged."
Grade III Hirsch Jacobs
One of the most impressive runners on the Preakness cards was the lightly raced Songster, who came south from his base at Belmont Park and crushed five other 3-year-old sprinters by 10 lengths in the six-furlong $100,000 Hirsch Jacobs.
Songster ran in two of the fastest sprints run this winter at Gulfstream Park to begin his career, then was beaten by nine lengths in his most recent start, the Grade III Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct by Bob Baffert's Too Much Bling.
Under jockey Edgar Prado, Songster flashed his high speed in the Hirsch Jacobs, running the first half-mile in 45.88 seconds and then easily pulling away in the stretch to win in 1:09.72.
