What time does Preakness 2024 start? Mystik Dan seeks second Triple Crown win

Mystik Dan should beat Sway Baffert-prepared Creative Mind, Brad Cox's Getting Opportunity and Chad Earthy colored's Tuscan Gold, who are the fundamental challenges, and the Preakness could be run on a sloppy track

Downpour was falling at Pimlico Race Seminar on Saturday hours before Kentucky Derby champ Mystik Dan goes for consecutive Triple Crown triumphs when he takes on seven different ponies in the Preakness Stakes.

He would be quick to win both the Derby and the Preakness since Legitimize in 2018. That would set up an uncommon and memorable second one month from now with a Triple Crown on the line at the Belmont Stakes.

Mystik Dan should beat Weave Baffert-prepared Creative Mind, Brad Cox's Getting Opportunity and Chad Earthy colored's Tuscan Gold, who are the fundamental challengers, and the Preakness could be run on a sloppy track, with showers expected to go on throughout the evening.

What time does Preakness 2024 begin?

The post time is at 6:50 p.m. ET however you can get the inclusion on NBC beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET, or stream on Peacock.

Baffert was set to saddle two ponies in the race set to go off soon after 7 p.m. EDT, yet the morning line most loved Muth was scratched during the week due to a fever. Mystik Dan opened Saturday as the 3-1 #1, with Getting Opportunity and Tuscan Gold every 7-2 and Creative Mind 9-2.

"Getting Opportunity prepared all around well going into the Derby," Mystik Dan's coach, Kenny McPeek, said for the current week. "He's an exceptionally pleasant pony. Furthermore, Bounce, wouldn't bring a pony without it being a decent pony, and Chad's likewise got a pony emerging from (completing third behind champ Getting Opportunity in) the Louisiana Derby. No doubt, it's anything but guaranteed."

It was anything but a given that McPeek would send Mystik Dan to Baltimore on a fourteen-day circle back from the yearling's debilitating just barely come out on top in the Kentucky Derby. However, he's one of three ponies from that race running in the Preakness, up from one final year and two of every 2022.

Many coaches' hesitance to do the Derby-Preakness twofold, when the standard for ponies on the Triple Crown trail, has brought up issues about the distinction of the center gem and worries that it has turned into the undesirable stepchild of the series. There are banters about separating the races out to adjust to current pure breeds that race less as often as possible than in past periods.

This will be the last Preakness at maturing Pimlico Race Course the way things are currently, with destruction set to start right on time one year from now. The 150th running in 2025 will in any case happen at the track during development prior to moving to Shrub Park in 2026 and afterward getting back to a modified Pimlico in 2027.

When is the Belmont Stakes and where?

The last leg of the Triple Crown is occurring on June 8, and interestingly, at the Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York as a result of remodels at Belmont Park in New York City.

Development is supposed to endure into 2025, so there's a decent opportunity for the Belmont at Saratoga for two years straight.

Hustling in New York is right now occurring at Water Channel in Sovereigns, which was home to the Triple Crown finale from 1963-67, the last time Belmont Park was remodeled.