Bob Baffert confirmed on Thursday that, after scratching out of the Kentucky Derby due to a foot bruise, Rodriguez will run in next week’s Preakness Stakes (G1)

Goal Oriented debuted April 6 at Santa Anita with an off-the-pace 3 1/4-length victory in a six-furlong maiden special weight event. He returned last Saturday at Churchill Downs, where he registered a front-running three-quarter-length triumph.

Kentucky Derby runner-up Journalism and Bob Baffert-trainee Goal Oriented lead the list of horses likely to run in the 2025 Preakness Stakes on May 17

F ans of Metallica are celebrating following Saturday’s announcement that Sandman will now run in the 2025 Preakness Stakes. After previously stating that the seventh place Kent