May 16, 2025, 9:01 AM EDT / Updated May 17, 2025, 5:08 PM EDT
The 150th running of the Preakness Stakes takes place Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. While some luster has been lost with Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty not running, there is still plenty of intrigue.
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Here’s what you need to know ahead of the Triple Crown’s second leg.
2025 Preakness Stakes
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2025
Post time: 6:50 p.m. ET
Where: Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore
How to watch: NBC and streamed on Peacock
Full Field and Post Positions with odds via NBC Sports
No. 1 Goal Oriented (6-1)
- Jockey: Flavien Prat | Trainer: Bob Baffert
- Career Highlight: Won an allowance optional claiming race May 3 at Churchill Downs.
- Fun Fact: Baffert has won the Preakness a record eight times. Goal Oriented has run two races and won both. This race, however, is a major step up in class for the young colt.
No. 2 Journalism (8-5)
- Jockey: Umberto Rispoli | Trainer: Michael W. McCarthy
- Career Highlight: Won the Santa Anita Derby. Finished second in the Kentucky Derby.
- Fun Fact: McCarthy has trained one Triple Crown race winner, 2021 Preakness Stakes champion Rombauer. Rispoli has yet to win a Triple Crown race.
No. 3 American Promise (15-1)
Jockey: Nik Juarez | Trainer: D. Wayne Lukas
Career Highlight: Faded late and finished 16th in the Kentucky Derby
Fun Fact: Trainer D. Wayne Lukas has won the Preakness seven times. His first came with Codex in 1980. His most recent was with Seize the Grey last year.
No. 4 Heart of Honor (12-1)
- Jockey: Saffie Osborne | Trainer: Jamie A. Osborne
- Career Highlight: Finished second behind Admire Daytona at the UAE Derby in his last race on April 5.
- Fun Fact: Without question the most international horse in the field. Heart of Honor’s parents are from Kentucky and Chile. He was trained outside of London, sold in France, and earned his stripes racing in Dubai.
No. 5 Pay Billy (20-1)
- Jockey: Raul Mena | Trainer: Michael E. Gorham
- Career Highlight: Won the Federico Tesio at Laurel Park on April 19 to earn a spot in the Preakness.
- Fun Fact: This is the first Preakness for Gorham as well as Pay Billy’s ownership group.
No. 6 River Thames (9-2)
- Jockey: Irad Ortiz Jr. | Trainer: Todd A. Pletcher
- Career Highlight: Finished second to Sovereignty in the Fountain of Youth Stakes.
- Fun Fact: Todd Pletcher is 0-10 all-time in the Preakness.
Kentucky Derby winner and Preakness Stakes entrant Mystik Dan leaves the track after a workout ahead of the 149th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on May 16, 2024.Julio Cortez / AP file
No. 7 Sandman (4-1)
- Jockey: John Velazquez | Trainer: Mark E. Casse
- Career Highlight: Won the Arkansas Derby. Finished seventh in the Kentucky Derby
- Fun Fact: One of Sandman’s owners is Vincent Viola, who also owns the Florida Panthers of the NHL.
No. 8 Clever Again (5-1)
- Jockey: Jose Ortiz | Trainer: Steven M. Asmussen
- Career Highlight: Won the 2025 Hot Springs at Oaklawn Park
- Fun Fact: Clever Again is 2-1-0 in three starts and has amassed just north of $198,000 in career earnings … but was originally purchased for $500,000 at the 2023 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.
No. 9 Gosger (20-1)
- Jockey: Luis Saez | Trainer: Brendan P. Walsh
- Career Highlight: Won the G3 Lexington at Keeneland on April 1. Has raced three times with two wins and one second-place finish in his career.
- Fun Fact: Gosger is workmates with East Avenue, who finished eighth in the Kentucky Derby.
