Preakness Stakes 2025

The field for the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, May 17 includes the current favorite Journalism who was second as the favorite in the 2025 Kentucky Derby and Sandman who was seventh in the Derby after what his trainer describes as a troubled trip over a less than favorable sloppy track. Other contenders for the Preakness include American Promise (16th in the Derby) and several newcomers.

Entries for the Preakness close on Monday morning and the draw for post positions will be later in the day on Monday at Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Baltimore.

2025 Preakness Stakes: Official Order of Finish and Wagering Payoffs

Finish	Horse	Jockey	Trainer	Odds	Win ($2)	Place ($2)	Show ($2)
1	Journalism	Umberto Rispoli	Michael McCarthy	6-5	$4.40	$3.20	$2.60
2	Gosger	Joel Rosario	Brendan Walsh	15-1	–	$9.80	$5.80
3	Sandman	Flavien Prat	Mark Casse	5-1	–	–	$3.80
4	Goal Oriented	Flavien Prat	Bob Baffert	6-1	–	–	–
5	Clever Again	Luis Saez	Steven Asmussen	5-1	–	–	–
6	River Thames	John Velazquez	Todd Pletcher	9-2	–	–	–
7	American Promise	Jaime Torres	D. Wayne Lukas	9-1	–	–	–
8	Heart of Honor	Saffie Osborne	Jamie Osborne	20-1	–	–	–
9	Pay Billy	Irad Ortiz Jr.	Brad Cox	11-1	–	–	–

Exotic Wagering Payoffs

$2 Exacta (2-9): $57.60 (Journalism over Gosger)
$1 Trifecta (2-9-7): $141.30 (Journalism, Gosger, Sandman)
$1 Superfecta (2-9-7-1): $614.20 (Journalism, Gosger, Sandman, Goal Oriented)
$1 Daily Double: $12.30
$1 Pick 3: $101.80
$0.50 Pick 4: $293.85
$0.50 Pick 5: $4,011.45
$0.20 Pick 6 Jackpot: $2,477.88

Race Details

Date: May 17, 2025
Location: Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland
Purse: $2 million ($1.2 million to the winner)
Time: 1:55.47
Track Condition: Fast
Total Wagering: $9.001 million (win pool), $1.419 million (exacta pool)

Embedded replay courtesy of the NBC Sports Channel on YouTube

Pedigree Profiles

We have profiled the probable contenders for the Preakness Stakes, and their potential for success based on pedigree (linked by name in the table below), and provide an analysis of each horse’s progression towards the second leg of the Triple Crown series.