Rich Strike won’t run in the Preakness Stakes

Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike won’t run in the Preakness Stakes.

Rick Dawson, the owner of Rich Strike, announced on Thursday theRich Strike won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday as an 80-1 long shot, the second-steepest odds ever overcome by a winner in the Run for the Roses.on Thursday that read: “Our original plan for Rich Strike was contingent on the Kentucky Derby. Should we not run in the Derby, we would point toward the Preakness.

Fifteenth in the 20-horse field with one-quarter of a mile to the wire in the 1.25-mile race, Rich Strike ran down betting favorite Epicenter and morning-line favorite Zandon in the stretch to win the Kentucky Derby by three-quarters of a length at Churchill Downs.Only one winner in the 147 previous runnings of the Kentucky Derby had gone off at longer odds – Donerail, which captured the 1913 race at 91-1.

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