2024 Preakness Stakes: Seize the Gray Odds, Picks & Predictions

by BettingPros Staff |
May 18, 2024

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 Seize the Gray.

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2024 Preakness Stakes Predictions: Seize the Gray

Post Position: 6
Odds: 15-1

Seize the Gray won the Pat Day Mile but had lost 5 of 6 races leading up that, He is also 1-for-5 in graded stakes races. It would take the trip of all perfect trips and trainer D. Wayne Lukas harnessing the energy he had in the 80s and 90s for this roan can bring him his 7th Preakness Stakes title in 44 years. Lukas hasn’t won since Oxbow in 2013 but his horses tend to be near the action around the finishing line on Preakness Day.

– Luke Monaldo

Seize the Grey Longshot Bet

Seize the Grey, the D. Wayne Lukas-trained three-year-old colt will be ridden by jockey Jaime A. Torres. Lukas won with Oxbow, with Gary Stevens as the jockey, riding for owner Calumet Farm in 2013. Torres has never won at the Preakness Stakes.

Seize the Grey did not race at the Kentucky Derby, but is no stranger to Churchill Downs, winning the Pat Day Mile presented by SAP in a Grade 2 stakes race on May 4. That was a nice bounce back from a disappointing seventh-place run at the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in early April.

This horse has picked up victories in two of the past four starts, including an allowance optional claiming race at Oaklawn Park in February 2024 with Nik Juarez on the back. Seize the Grey also won a Maiden Special Weight race at Saratoga in late July 2023. In nine career starts, Seize the Grey has three wins and three finishes of third place, and is worth a roll of the dice among exotics.

– Daniel Dobish

For more longshot bets, check out our complete 2024 Preakness Stakes Longshot Bets: Sleeper Picks & Predictions article.

Bet: Hit the board, back of exotics

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
4	~~Muth~~	~~Bob Baffert~~	~~Juan Hernandez~~	~~8-5~~
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

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