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Will Justify win and go for a Triple Crown? Here's the answer to that and other Preakness Stakes questions

Trainer Bob Baffert once called the Preakness Stakes the easiest of the Triple Crown races to win. Of course, he said that in a year when he didn't have the Kentucky Derby winner staring at a bit of horse racing immortality.

Baffert knows a little bit about the Preakness, having won it six times. He's also four for four when he has taken the Kentucky Derby winner to Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

This time, expectations are sky-high, scaring off most of the

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