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Gayego To Challenge Big Brown In The Preakness Stakes 133
Cubanacan Stables’ Gayego will run in Saturday’s 2008 Preakness Stakes competing once again with Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown in the second leg of the Triple Crown races.
Gayego was added to the Preakness entries Tuesday. Gayego will be the only one of the 19 horses beaten by Big Brown in the Kentucky Derby to seek a rematch Saturday at Pimlico Race Course.
Horse trainer Paulo Lobo, who attributed the disappointing performance to a poor start, claimed that Gayego is primed for a bounce-back performance against the heavily favored Big Brown.
“That’s the reason we are thinking about (the Preakness),” trainer Paulo Lobo said Monday. “He’s very happy right now and he came back very sound.”
Gayego will be ridden by jockey Mike Smith, who has served as the Kentucky-bred colt’s rider in each of his six lifetime starts.
The addition of Gayego, who is based in Southern California, expands the prospective field for the middle jewel of the Triple Crown to 13.
Confirmed Preakness entries (with their last start) prior to Wednesday’s Preakness post position draw are:
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