I would have liked to see Essential Quality and Hot Rod Charlie in the Preakness. They were both very wide in the turn into the stretch and lost a lot of ground. I can understand why Essential Quality is skipping because he is a Tapit and should be well suited to the Belmont, but don't know about Hot Rod Charlie. I think I read they just want him to have more time to recover than the two weeks between the races. Anyway, it looks like the Preakness will be a sizable field so that part is good.
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