Lookin to get lucky in Preakness

It does not look like the Preakness is going to offer a lot of value Saturday with Super Saver and Lookin At Lucky the obvious betting choices in the second leg of the Triple Crown.The post-time favorite has won the Preakness seven of the last 10 years, with the longest odds for a winner being just less than 13/1 when Bernardini won in 2006, the race where Barbaro broke down shortly after the start.Super Saver is the obvious choice here for the public after he rode the rail to a comfortable win over Ice Box and Paddy O’Prado in the Kentucky Derby.Looking to get any type of price Saturday I will let him go at 2/1 or 8/5, speculating that he moved way up on Derby Day thanks to the sloppy track, and hope for a clean trip for Lookin At Lucky, who was roughed up at the start of the Derby and then planted in the rail losing all chance before the field even hit the first turn.Trainer Bob Baffert is shaking up things replacing jockey Garrett Gomez with Martin Garcia in the hopes a new pilot can work out a smooth trip. The 2-year-old champion has raced three times in 2010 and has encountered trouble in each of his starts.Hollywood track announcer Vic Stauffer likes to say that a horse was half an hour the best, and that may just be the case for Lookin At Lucky Saturday if Garcia can avoid traffic and trouble.Unlike the Derby where the pace was frantic from the second the gates opened, Saturday’s 1 3/16-miles should be much more controlled on the front end allowing jockeys to get their mounts pretty much where they want to be heading in to the first turn and the long run up the backstretch.If you are looking for some price horses to use in exactas and trifectas in the Preakness you may want to take a look at Yawanna Twist, who is a lightly raced colt finishing first or second in all four lifetime starts; Pleasant Prince, who finished a good second to Ice Box in the Florida Derby; and Jackson Bend, who was bounced around quite a bit in the Derby before finishing 12th. The Nick Zito trainee has trained very well (4 furlongs in :46.3) since the Derby and should be a lot closer to the early pace where he does his best running.The only saving grace about our selections in the Derby is that we were able to hit the Oaks/Derby double, so we will attempt to hit the Black-Eyed Susan/Preakness double this Friday and Saturday (leaving out the probable post-time favorites in each race) using No Such Word, Seeking the Title and Diva Delite Friday with Lookin At Lucky in The Preakness.