2024 Preakness Stakes: Imagination Odds, Picks & Predictions
With the 2024 Kentucky Derby in the rearview mirror, all eyes now turn to the legendary Pimlico Race Course for the 2024 Preakness Stakes. As the middle jewel of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes draws not only the finest three-year-old thoroughbreds but also a massive audience of racing enthusiasts and bettors keen to witness history in the making. Throughout this series, our featured horse racing experts will break down their favorite bets for the Run for the Black-eyed Susans, in addition to providing individual horse profiles. Below, we take a look at the current Preakness Stakes odds, post position, and expert advice for Imagination.
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2024 Preakness Stakes Predictions: Imagination
- Post Position: 9
- Odds: 6-1
No one stands to benefit more from Muth’s scratch than his stablemate, Imagination. Originally meant to provide pace to the race for Muth, Imagination now stands out as a real threat for a wire-to-wire victory if he gets the trip he should from the 9-hole. If he can get out in front of the pack and Mystik Dan has a less than ideal trip this race lacks any serious speed and can be ripe for the taking.
Trainer Bob Baffert has more Preakness victories (nine) than anyone in history and with all of his attention now focused on this son of championship sire Into Mischief, the sky is the limit on Saturday even if you won’t be able to see said sky through all of the cloud cover on the projected sloppy track.
Baltimore isn’t seeing the kind of rain it saw in 2018 leading up to 2018’s Justify victory in the fog and slop, but it will be wet for sure. Imagination has never run a race in less than “fast” conditions but he cut his teeth in the deep sands of Santa Anita Park and should have a mudder’s strength. That might be enough in this field.
– Luke Monaldo
2024 Preakness Stakes Post Positions & Odds
| Post | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Odds |
| 1 | Mugatu | Jeff Engler | Joe Bravo | 20-1 |
| 2 | Uncle Heavy | Butch Reid Jr. | Irad Ortiz Jr. | 20-1 |
| 3 | Catching Freedom | Brad Cox | Flavien Prat | 6-1 |
| 5 | Mystik Dan | Kenny McPeek | Brian Hernandez Jr. | 5-2 |
| 6 | Seize the Gray | D. Wayne Lukas | Jaime Torres | 15-1 |
| 7 | Just Steel | D. Wayne Lukas | Joel Rosario | 15-1 |
| 8 | Tuscan Gold | Chad Brown | Tyler Gaffalione | 8-1 |
| 9 | Imagination | Bob Baffert | Frankie Dettori | 6-1 |
2024 Preakness Stakes Horse Previews, Picks & Predictions
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