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Black-Eyed Susan
1 - 1/4 cup vodka4 cups orange juice
1 - 1/4 cup light rum
Ice ring
3/4 cup triple sec
1 tbsp fresh lime juice
4 cups pineapple juice
Chill all ingredients. Just before serving combine in a punch bowl. Unmold ice ring and float in bowl.
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Preakness Tidbits
Tidbits from KennedyA factor worth looking at is the horses who enter the Derby with less than 5 career starts. We often theorize that they can't win the Derby because they don't have enough experience. But do these, usually talented, horses bounce back in the Preakness which is run more like a conventional race? The stats say they don't. They have a cumulative record of 7-0-0-1 with only Congaree hitting the frame.
In the last 26 years only two Preakness winners led wire to wire:
Rachel Alexandra and Louis Quatorze.
Must have run in the Derby.
Only 3 of the last 25 Preakness winners did not run in the Derby:
The three were Rachel Alexandra, Bernardini and Red Bullet
As with all major races I look for a potential cut off line for the speed figures by taking an average of every stakes winning Beyer Speed Figure earned by a member of the field in the current season. Horses that failed to equal or better the average for their specific running of the race went 41-0-3-3 in the Preakness from 2000 to the 2008.
Runners who finished second and third in the Derby have actually not fared as well at all. They are a cumulative 25-4
Speedy Derby winners also have a better record in the Preakness than their late running rivals. Derby winners who were in better than 10th place at the half mile pole of the Derby went 9-6-1-1 in the Preakness. Conversely those who were in 10th place or worse at the half mile pole went 4-0-1-1. While the sample size is not all that large it would seem that the most vulnerable Derby winners are those who closed from well back to win the roses.
The Preakness is a chalky race, in the last 16 runnings we've had 8 favorites win. In fact favorites rarely finish out of the money, they've compiled a record of 16-8-5-1.
