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Robby Albarado has mount for another Preakness win

Thu 8th, May 2008

Baltimore, MD (Sports Network) - Robby Albarado, the leading jockey this year in earnings, will have an oppotunity to claim his second straight Preakness Stakes. Trainer Ken McPeek has informed Pimlico Race Course that his Racecar Rhapsody will be part of the field in this year's Preakness.

"The horse is training really well," McPeek said. "We kind of feel like we might be running for second money with Big Brown being as impressive as he's been but you never know."

Albarado has the ride on the colt for the middle jewel of racing's Triple Crown. In six career starts, all with Albarado in the saddle, Racecar Rhapsody has earned $148,391 with one win, a second and a third place finish.

Racecar Rhapsody has posted fourth place finishes this year in the Lexington and Lane's End Stakes.

Albarado guided Curlin to victory in last year's Preakness over 2007 Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense. This year Albarado rode Curlin to a sensational win in the $6 million Dubai World Cup. Through Sunday, Albarado has just over $7.5 million in earnings.

Also confirmed for the Preakness is Illinois Derby champ Recapturetheglory. Co-owner Ronnie Lamarque said from New Orleans on Wednesday that his three- year-old will again take on Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown.

"First of all we know that we belong," said Lamarque. "Of the 33,000 horses that were foaled three years ago, twenty of them made it to the Derby and we beat fifteen of them. Big Brown is a bear but we're not going to run in it to run second. We're there to win and we believe it is a speed favoring racetrack. I'll look at all the other entrants. They don't scare me at all and I believe our horse definitely belongs and we feel like the Preakness is our kind of race."

Fifth in the Run for the Roses, Recapturetheglory is trained by co-owner Louie Roussel. Lamarque and Roussel won the Preakness Stakes in 1988 with Risen Star.

"Twenty years ago my life was centered around a horse named Risen Star. He was magnificent and he brought another meaning to us in New Orleans and especially Louie," added Lamarque. "Recapturetheglory is a different kind of horse. I'm twenty years my senior. I'm laid back somewhat now. I was a terror, now I'm a little more confined. If I get in the winners' circle you never know if you're going to hear a song from me so don't turn off the television you just never know."

The Preakness starter list now stands at nine: Big Brown, Recapturetheglory, Behindatthebar, Giant Moon, Kentucky Bear, Racecar Rhapsody, Stevil, Tres Borrachos and Yankee Bravo. Others still considering the 1 3/16 mile race are Harlem Rocker, Riley Tucker and Macho Again.