Steve Kornacki’s guide to the Preakness: Plenty of intrigue with wide-open field

While there won’t be a Kentucky Derby winner in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, there still is plenty of intrigue for the second leg of the Triple Crown.

It’s a cliché to say a big race will be like no other before it, but in the case of the Preakness this year, it’s true. There’s no Kentucky Derby winner — something that used to be rare yet has now happened three times in the last five years. There’s also no Kentucky Derby runner-up, making this only the second time in 40 years that the top two finishers aren’t competing in the Preakness. Nor has any horse in the field won a Grade 1 or Grade 2 race this year.

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