2023 Preakness Stakes predictions, odds, date, contenders: Expert who nailed last year's exacta reveals picks

Trainer Chad Brown will try to win the Preakness for the third time when he sends out Champagne Stakes winner Blazing Sevens in the 2023 Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course. Brown won the race in 2017 with Cloud Computing and last year with Early Voting. This year, the 44-year-old Brown will go for No. 3 with Blazing Sevens, who, like Cloud Computing and Early Voting, skipped the Kentucky Derby to run in the Preakness. Blazing Sevens is 6-1 in the 2023 Preakness Stakes odds. Kentucky Derby winner Mage is the 8-5 morning-line favorite in the seven-horse 2023 Preakness Stakes field.

Few people in racing are as well-connected as Yu. An on-air host and reporter who has provided racing analysis for TVG, HRTV and the Breeders' Cup, Yu has spent a lifetime in racing. Prior to her television career, she worked for trainers Steve Asmussen and Ron Moquett. She also is married to Santa Anita-based trainer Ryan Hanson.

Yu also has tremendous handicapping chops. In a wide-open Kentucky Derby in 2021, she gave out Medina Spirit, who crossed the finish line first, as the winner at 12-1. In Pool 5 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager last year, she suggested a play on All Other 3-Year-Olds, which cashed at a whopping 18-1 when Rich Strike won the Derby. And in last year's Preakness Stakes she had the Early Voting-Epicenter exacta.

Since the end of February, she has crushed the Saudi Cup, riding a 15-1 winner, nailed Derma Sotogake to win the UAE Derby and hit the exacta in the Santa Anita Derby.

Now, Yu has handicapped the 2023 Preakness Stakes odds, made her picks and constructed her 2023 Preakness Stakes bets. .

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One surprise: Yu is completely tossing Blazing Sevens, even though he is trained by two-time Preakness Stakes-winning trainer. A $225,000 purchase two years ago, Blazing Sevens has earned more than $565,000 in his career. He is best known for winning the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes in October.

However, since the calendar turned to 2023, the colt has been unable to regain that form. He finished eighth in the Fountain of Youth Stakes and third in a Blue Grass Stakes behind two horses who were also-rans in the Kentucky Derby. "Blazing Sevens was precocious at age 2, but I don't think he has made a huge improvement at age 3," Yu told SportsLine. She is not including Blazing Sevens in her 2023 Preakness Stakes bets. See which 2023 Preakness Stakes horses Yu is backing at SportsLine.

How to make 2023 Preakness Stakes picks, bets

Instead, Yu's top pick is a horse who should get a "clean trip" on Saturday. She also is high on a horse who drew the perfect post for his running style. She's sharing which 2023 Preakness horses to back only at SportsLine.

So what horse wins the Preakness Stakes 2023, and which horse drew the perfect post? See the latest 2023 Preakness Stakes odds below and then visit SportsLine to see Yu's picks for the Preakness Stakes, all from the insider who nailed last year's exacta, and find out.