1988 Preakness Stakes - Risen Star

Risen Star, who would have been an equine basket case if he had known about all the indecision surrounding his trainer and co-owner in the last three weeks, rebounded from a third-place finish in the Kentucky Derby to win the $536,200 Preakness by 1 lengths at Pimlico Saturday as Winning Colors, the Derby winner, joined Genuine Risk as another filly who was treated like anything but a lady in the middle leg of the Triple Crown. While Risen Star, under a slick ride by Eddie Delahoussaye, moved through on the inside to take the lead midway through the run around the far turn, Winning Colors and Forty Niner completed a racelong bumping episode that effectively eliminated both horses from contention. Winning Colors, trying to become the fifth filly to win the Preakness and the first distaffer to win more than one Triple Crown race, was keelhauled much the way Derby winner Genuine Risk was by Codex here in 1980, only worse. Genuine Risk was carried to the middle of the track as she made her late move at the top of the stretch; Winning Colors was bumped or brushed by Forty Niner, who had finished a neck behind her in the Derby, at least eight times all the way around the course. Brian's Time, the colt who usually starts running in the state adjoining the one where the race is held, wore blinkers for the first time, was uncustomarily closer in the early stages and finished second, 1 lengths ahead of Winning Colors. After the first three, the order of finish was Private Terms, Cefis, Regal Classic, Forty Niner, Sorry About That and Finder's Choice. Risen Star, considered to be little more than a good horse out of Louisiana even though he won five of his first seven races, started gaining legitimacy when he beat Forty Niner at Keeneland in mid-April. But despite losing by only 3 lengths in the Derby, Risen Star was the fourth betting choice before 81,282 at Pimlico and paid $15.60, $7.80 and $4 while earning $413,700. On a fast-drying track that was labeled good after being hit with intermittent rain for three straight days, the son of Secretariat and Ribbon ran 1 3/16 miles in 1:56 1/5. http://articles.latimes.com/1988-05-2...