Has the Triple Crown in Horse Racing Become Obsolete?
Matt Perrault discusses how the latest adjustments to horse-racing dates might render the Preakness irrelevant, altering the traditional Triple Crown setup.
Video Transcript
Let's talk horse racing.
We don't always talk horse racing, but the Triple Crown could be dead.
Like, this is big news I don't think enough people are talking about, and in our world, in the sports gambling, sports betting, horse betting world, this kinda stinks what happened yesterday with the announcement of a new schedule that will essentially make the Preakness irrelevant.
I, I'm not kidding.
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So the Triple Crown has been in danger for the last couple of years because the winner of the Derby has determined, "Hey, it's not worth risking the health of our horse to do a two-week turnaround to go to Maryland to go and run in the Preakness Stakes.
So we're gonna hold our horse out, and then we're gonna run at the Belmont, and that's gonna be what we want.
That's how we're gonna do this."
Well, yesterday, the Triple Crown just became They're, they're saying it's not dead, but it sure feels like no Derby-winning horse will run the Preakness anymore after what was announced yesterday by Churchill Downs and the New York Racing Association.
They announced a new six-race series starting in 2027.
In May of '27, the Kentucky Derby will run in its traditional spot in the first Saturday in May.
Then the Belmont Stakes will run in its traditional June 5th sp- spot.
But in the interim, they're gonna run hor- they're gonna run races that will stretch out all the way to September.
The Preakness still will exist two weeks after the Kentucky Derby.
The Preakness will run in May.
But now, if you're running in this, there's a $5 million bonus in this race series for a horse that wants to keep going and wants to run.
You go into the Mattoon Stakes, the Jim Dandy, the Travers, and then the new a new Churchill Downs race will happen in September.
This is in response to the fact that Golden Tempo and Sovereignty and Rich Strike all won the Derby and then turned around, and they skipped the Preakness, and they said, "You know what?
We're just not doing it.
We're not gonna jump back in."
Two weeks after the Derby has just become not possible for modern trainers.
They've said, "Nope, we're not gonna do it."
