Preakness Stakes 2026: 3 Best Bets!
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Sportsline Horse Race Experts Michelle Yu, Jeff Hochman, and Gene Menez break down their FAVORITE bets for the 2026 Preakness Stakes and which horses they love!
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| 0:00.0 | Second jeweled triple crown is fast approaching this upcoming weekend. |
| 0:04.6 | Going to be held at Laurel Park over in Maryland. |
| 0:08.7 | And guys, we've talked about the long shots. |
| 0:10.6 | We've talked about the horses we could toss. |
| 0:12.0 | We talked about the undercard. |
| 0:13.3 | Let's get to those best bets. |
| 0:15.5 | Gene lay it on me. |
| 0:18.7 | All right. |
| 0:19.3 | Let's do better than we did two weeks ago in the Kentucky Derby. |
| 0:22.3 | Listen, at some point last year, I tweeted out something that was to the effect of |
| 0:28.1 | never count on a pace meltdown again, don't bet on a deep closer. |
| 0:34.7 | I am going to go against that on Saturday because the preekness is |
| 0:40.3 | loaded with horses who want to be forwardly placed. Napoleon Solo, Taj Mahal, Corona de |
| 0:48.3 | Oro, Pretty Boy Maya, I can go on and on and on. They either want to be first or second. They |
| 0:53.3 | want to be up close. |
| 0:56.0 | I think that we are going to get a pace collapse in the Preakness Stakes, just very similar to what we got in the Kentucky Derby. |
| 1:04.7 | I think that's going to set up for horses coming from off the pace. So this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to box the five |
| 1:14.4 | horses that I think are going to be off the pace and come running at the end in an exacta. |
| 1:20.3 | First of all, Occelli, number two, number five talk and we talked about seven the hell we did. |
| 1:27.0 | Eight built by the horns who is the |
| 1:29.3 | slowest horse in the race but at least he comes running at the end and number 12 incredible who i |
| 1:34.1 | think would probably be my top pick if i was going to actually be forced to pick one horse to |
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