2023 Preakness complete order of finish and payoffs for second jewel of Triple Crown

Lexington Herald-Leader
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Mage’s 15 minutes of fame lasted two weeks. Bob Baffert’s never seems to end.

The Thoroughbred racehorse and the Hall of Fame trainer played central roles in Saturday’s 148th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

Mage, the winner of the 2023 Kentucky Derby and the only horse from that race to be entered in the second jewel of this year’s Triple Crown, was attempting to become the first to win the Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes since Justify claimed horse racing’s highest honor by doing so in 2018.

Baffert won the 2015 Triple Crown with American Pharoah and did it again with Justify but has been mired in controversy since his 2021 Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit, failed a postrace drug test that led to a two-year suspension from Churchill Downs for Baffert.

Saturday marked Baffert’s first Triple Crown race since the 2021 Preakness and, Baffert being Baffert, the trainer won his record-setting eighth Preakness Stakes.

Baffert’s National Treasure, the second betting choice behind the favorite Mage, won a stretch duel with Blazing Sevens by a head. Mage fought gamely to catch the top two but wound up third, another 2 1/4 lengths back, in the field of seven.

National Treasure paid $7.80 to win, $4.00 to place and $2.60 to show.

Second-place Blazing Sevens paid $5.00 and $2.80.

Third-place Mage paid $2.40.

Here is the complete, official order of finish for the 148th Preakness Stakes:

1. National Treasure

2. Blazing Sevens

3. Mage

4. Red Route One

5. Chase the Chaos

6. Perform

7. CoffeewithChris

Scratched: First Mission.

Preakness payoffs

$1 Daily Double — 9-1 ($7.40)

$1 Exacta — 1-7 ($15.90)

$1 Superfecta — 1-7-3-5 ($72.40)

$1 Super High Five — 1-7-3-5-2 ($164.90)

$1 Trifecta — 1-7-3 ($24.20)

$0.50 Pick 3 — 4/8-9-1 (3 correct) ($10.40)

$0.50 Pick 4 — 13-4/8-9-1 (4 correct) ($47.25)

$0.50 Pick 5 — 8-13-4/8-9-1 (5 correct) ($1,112.70)

$0.20 Pick 6 Jackpot — 6-8-13-4/8-9-1 (6 correct) ($7,800.88)

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