The Kentucky Derby saw Sandman place seventh and American Promise finish 16th, but that hasn’t deterred them from joining the 2025 Preakness Stakes on Saturday. The 2025 Preakness Stakes horses will go to post at 7:01 p.m. ET. Since 2000, there have been 44 horses to go from a seventh-or-worse Derby finish to racing in the Preakness, and only War of Will (2019) managed to become a Preakness Stakes champion. Will either Sandman or American Promise shock horse racing on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course? Sandman (4-1) is the second-favorite, according to the latest 2025 Preakness Stakes odds, while American Promise is one of the potential 2025 Preakness Stakes sleeper picks at 15-1.
Kentucky Derby runner-up Journalism (8-5) is the favorite. Before making any 2025 Preakness Stakes picks, be sure to see the horse racing predictions and 2025 Preakness Stakes futures bets from SportsLine’s elite horse racing expert Jody Demling, considering his domination of Triple Crown races.
A fixture in the horse racing world who has been writing about, talking about and betting on races for years, Demling hit the top three finishers in the Kentucky Derby in the correct order. He also called 10 of the last 20 Preakness winners, including 2023 when he hit the winner, exacta, trifecta and superfecta. He hit the trifecta in the 2024 Preakness Stakes and has predicted the winner of the Belmont Stakes four of the last seven years. Anyone who has followed those picks on sites like FanDuel Racing and TwinSpires is up huge.
Now, with the 2025 Preakness Stakes post positions set and odds on the board, Demling is sharing his 2025 Preakness Stakes betting picks and 2025 Preakness Stakes predictions over at SportsLine to help you figure out how to bet the Preakness Stakes. Go here to see them.
Will Sovereignty run in the Preakness Stakes 2025?
Will Sovereignty run in the Preakness Stakes 2025? No, Sovereignty won’t run at Pimlico in the Preakness 2025. Sired by Into Mischief out of the Bernardini mare Crowned, Sovereignty captured graded-stakes wins in the Street Sense Stakes and Fountain of Youth Stakes before finishing second to Tappan Street in the Florida Derby. With Tappan Street out because of an injury, he went off as the second favorite (5-1) at Churchill Downs.
Sovereignty was squeezed inside out of the gates but jockey Junior Alvarado got him settled in along the rail. He was 13 1/2 lengths off the pace set by Citizen Bull in the backstretch, where he and Journalism began moving up through the field. The pair swung wide around the final turn and dueled down the homestretch, but Sovereignty pulled away in the final furlong for a 1 1/2-length win.
Top 2025 Preakness predictions, expert analysis
Demling just revealed his 2025 Preakness Stakes projections for Journalism, the Kentucky Derby favorite who finished a hard-fought second in the first leg of the Triple Crown. That ended a four-start win streak for Journalism, who, prior to the Kentucky Derby, had never raced outside of Southern California. The Derby was also his first race with off-track conditions as he overcame a rough start on a sloppy track to take a brief lead before succumbing to Sovereignty.
Journalism has the top speed figure in the Preakness field but has a mixed bag when it comes to connections. Trainer Michael McCarthy won with his lone prior Preakness starter with Rombauer (2021), but jockey Umberto Rispoli’s lone prior Triple Crown race was that Derby runner-up. Journalism was sired by Curlin, who finished in the money at the 2007 Kentucky Derby before going on to win that year’s Preakness, and the son is looking to follow in his father’s footsteps. See which other 2025 Preakness Stakes horses to avoid at SportsLine.
One surprise: Demling is high on Clever Again, even though he’s a 5-1 longshot for anyone taking advantage of Preakness Stakes promo codes. The horse was sired by American Pharoah, who claimed the Triple Crown in 2015 and won that year’s Preakness by seven lengths, which is the sixth largest margin of victory in race history. Clever Again is coming off Hot Springs victory at Oaklawn Park in which he led wire-to-wire, giving him back-to-back wins entering the 2025 Preakness Stakes.
The horse has proven connections as he’s one of three in the Preakness field with both a trainer and jockey who have won this race before. Trainer Steve Asmussen is a two-time Preakness champion (2007, 2009) who has seen each of his last three Preakness starters hit the board. As for jockey Jose Ortiz, he won aboard Early Voting (2022) and mounted Sandman at this year’s Kentucky Derby. Even though Sandman has shorter Preakness odds than Clever Again, Ortiz made the switch over to the latter, which indicates how highly he thinks of Clever Again’s chances of winning. See which horses to back at SportsLine now.
How to make 2025 Preakness Stakes picks, bets
Demling is especially high on a huge longshot who “could be a factor” and will spice up your exotics. Demling is sharing which horse it is, along with his entire projected 2025 Preakness Stakes leaderboard, over at SportsLine.
Which horse wins the Preakness Stakes 2025, and which huge longshot is a must-back? Check out the latest 2025 Preakness Stakes odds below, then visit SportsLine to see Demling’s picks for the Preakness Stakes, all from the expert who nailed the top three in correct order at the Kentucky Derby and nailed the last two Preakness trifectas.
2025 Preakness Stakes odds, post positions
2025 Preakness Stakes horses, contenders, profiles
Preakness Stakes profiles 1 Goal Oriented | 2 Journalism | 3 American Promise | 4 Heart of Honor | 5 Pay Billy | 6 River Thames | 7 Sandman | 8 Clever Again | 9 Gosger
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