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Article: Pine Bluff Charges Past Alydeed to Win Preakness
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 17, 1992
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Pine Bluff's poor showing in the Kentucky Derby had puzzled his
owner and trainer and prompted his regular jockey to snub him. But
one group didn't lose faith in the colt: the bettors. They made him
the favorite at Pimlico over the same rivals who had whipped him at
Churchill Downs, and Pine Bluff affirmed their faith today with a
decisive victory in the Preakness Stakes.
He rallied strongly in the stretch to catch the leader, Alydeed,
and scored a three-quarters-length victory in the 117th running of
Maryland's greatest horse race. Casual Lies was third, Dance Floor
fourth and Lil E. Tee, the Derby winner, a lackluster fifth. A
postrace examination indicated Lil E. Tee bled "slightly" ...