Preakness Stakes Betting Odds 2025
Preakness Stakes betting takes you into the heart of US horse racing’s Triple Crown. This is the race where full focus rests on the Kentucky Derby champion from just a few weeks before, and who could challenge them for one of the biggest stakes races in the world. The Preakness betting odds tend to change with great speed in the days and weeks leading up to this race – so now’s the time to get studying the sports betting sites and consider which horses to back.
The 2024 Preakness Stakes will be the 147th running of this illustrious race. Legends have been forged at Pimlico Race Course down the years, while horse racing betting fans have won millions backing the correct runners.
Read on to discover everything you need to know about the 2024 race, how to bet on Preakness Stakes, and the current Preakness odds. What’s more, we’ve also got some top tips for you to consider ahead of the ‘The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans’!
Final Preakness Stakes 2025 Odds and Post Positions
The Preakness Stakes usually features around 10 horses, although we won’t know the exact number for the 2024 race until raceweek itself. Compare this to the Kentucky Derby, where 20 horses compete, and it’s clear to see why the Preakness Stakes odds are usually more competitive. This year, nine horses will be in the field.
Picking a winner in the Preakness Stakes isn’t easy. But there are some outliers every year from which you can back or throw away. We won’t know the exact Preakness Stakes 2022 odds until the race list is released, and the post position draw complete. But until then, here are the viable futures candidates and their latest futures odds.
All horse betting odds courtesy of the Bovada sports betting book, and are subject to change.
Horse | Preakness Stakes Odds | Trainer | Post Position | Winning Position |
---|---|---|---|---|
Epicenter | +110 | Steve Asmussen | 8 | TBD |
Early Voting | +400 | Kenneth G. Mcpeek | 5 | TBD |
Secret Oath | +450 | D. Wayne Lukas | 4 | TBD |
Simplification | +700 | Antonio Sano | 1 | TBD |
Creative Minister | +1000 | Kenneth G. Mcpeek | 2 | TBD |
Armagnac | +1400 | Tim Yakteen | 7 | TBD |
Skippylongstocking | +1800 | Saffie Joseph Jr. | 9 | TBD |
Happy Jack | +3300 | Doug O’Neill | 6 | TBD |
Fenwick | +3300 | Kevin McKathan | 3 | TBD |
Post Position Stats and Info (Ahead of the 2022 Preakness Stakes)
- Secretariat holds the record for the fastest ever running of the Preakness Stakes, when he covered 1+3⁄16 miles in just 1:53 to win the 1973 race.
- The record winning length at the Preakness Stakes was set by Smarty Jones in 2004, when he finished an incredible 11½ lengths ahead of the field.
- Bob Baffert boasts the joint-record most wins at the Preakness for a trainer with seven. Baffert is suspended from taking part in this year’s race.
- Swiss Skydiver won the Preakness in 2020 to become only the sixth filly in history to claim this famous race. She ran from gate No 4.
- Post Position No 5 has produced just two winners in the Preakness since 1986. Meanwhile, Post Position No 6 boasts seven winners over that same period.
Preakness Stakes 2025 News
Keep up to date on the latest news from the 2025 Preakness Stakes.
We have a filly in the Preakness
We will have a filly in the Preakness field this year. Secret Oath is slated to compete, says trainer D. Wayne Lukas after finishing third in the Arkansas Derby.
Secret Oath won the Kentucky Oaks this May and Lukas is eyeing further success over the summer.
“I have good luck at the Preakness. I always have had,” Lukas said, prior to the Kentucky Oaks. “If we have a big Oaks, now we cut back in distance. We go to a 14-horse field versus 20. We go on a different surface, tight turns, where speed would be good. It changes the whole game when you go to the Preakness.”
Remember, only six fillies have ever won the Preakness Stakes – and only two of those in the past 98 years.
Baffert suspended
Maryland horse racing regulators have confirmed trainer Bob Baffert is suspended for the Preakness this year.
Baffert is suspended in Kentucky for 90 days starting April 4, which meant he also could not field horses in the Kentucky Derby. Generally all 38 racing states uphold any ban implemented by another, which means we won’t see Baffert seek a record eighth victory at Pimlico.
Baffert had tried to appeal against a suspension that originated from alleged medication violations involving a number of his horses. This included Medina Spirit, winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby, who was subsequently disqualified and who died late last year.