Preakness 2026 post positions, odds and how to watch from new course
Iron Honor drew post 9 and is the 9-2 morning line favorite for Saturday's Preakness at Laurel Park. Here's the full field, post positions, odds and how to watch.
Golden Tempo is headed to Saratoga. The Preakness Stakes Park as headed to Laurel Park and Saturday’s race will look nothing like the ones before it. For the first time in its 151-year history, the Preakness will not be run at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
Laurel Park, about 20 miles south, is hosting the race while Pimlico undergoes a $400 million renovation and revitalization project. The Preakness is expected to return to its historic home in 2027. And without Kentucky Derby winner Golden Temp in the gate, the race is wide open.
Trainer Cherie DeVaux, who became the first woman to train a Kentucky Derby winner when Golden Tempo surged from 23-1 odds to win on May 2, has decided to focus on the Belmont Stakes. That will be June 6 at Saratoga while Belmont is also under construction. Fourteen horses are expected to go to the gate, the largest Preakness field since 2011.
Three ran in the Kentucky Derby: Incredibolt, who finished sixth, Icelli, who finished a stunning third at 70-1 odds, and Robusta, who finished 14th. Iron Honor is the morning line favorite at 9-2 from post 9. The Chad Brown-trained horse was kept off the Kentucky Derby course specifically to show up at the Preakness fresh.