Seize the Grey Wins 149th Preakness Stakes - 7th Preakness Win for Trainer D. Wayne Lukas

 On a muddy track at Pimlico, the 149th running of the Preakness Stakes was won by Seize the Grey - a colt sired by Arrogate, who has 2,750 owners.  The gray/roan colt is trained by D. Wayne Lukas (aged 88), who won the Preakness for the seventh time in his career - he has won 15 Triple Crown races so far.  It was the first graded stakes win for jockey Jaime Torres, a 25-year-old native of Puerto Rico.

   Seize the Grey, out of Smart Shopping, is owned by My Racehorse, a micro-share partnership, with 2,750 owners, who purchased 5,000 shares of the colt for $127 per share.  He won $1,200,000 today for his owners.

   Seize the Grey took the lead when the starting gate opened, and never looked back.  Imagination, the Bob Baffert trained colt, shadowed him for the first half-mile, then slowly faded.  Seize the Grey won by 2 and 1/4 lengths, followed by the Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan, who was a head in front of Catching Freedom, who led Tuscan Gold by 6 lengths.  Just Steel, who finished 17th in the Derby, was in 5th place in the Preakness.  The running times were: the 1/4 in 23.98 seconds; the 1/2 in 47.33 seconds; the 3/4 in 1.11.95; the mile in 1.37.53; and the finish at 1 and 3/16ths mile was 1:56.82.

   Here is the complete order of finish, with purse winnings:  1.  Seize the Grey ($1,200,000);  2.  Mystik Dan ($400,000);  3.  Catching Freedom  ($220,000);  4.  Tuscan Gold  ($120,000);  5.  Just Steel  ($60,000);  6.  Uncle Heavy;  7.  Imagination;  8.  Mugatu.  Muth, the early betting favorite, was scratched Wednesday when he spiked a fever.

   Betting payouts for a $2 bet  -  a bet to win on Seize the Grey paid $21.60; a bet on Mystik Dan to place paid $4.20; and a bet on Catching Freedom to show paid $3.20.  A $2 exacta paid $119.40; the trifecta paid $367.40; and the superfecta paid $1,498.

Seize the Grey wins the 2024 Preakness Stakes