The Kentucky Derby after-party has been reduced to a table (or stable) for one. The Preakness, the second leg of thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown, will be contested Saturday with just a single horse moving on to Baltimore from Louisville: Derby winner Mage.
That’s it, that’s the list. The shortest list since before the Korean War.
It’s the first time in 75 years that only one Derby starter has entered the Preakness. In 1948, Citation won the Triple Crown in part by scaring off almost all the competition before it even began. He faced just five other horses in the first leg, three others in the second leg and seven in the Belmont.
