Blazing Sevens: 2023 Preakness Stakes Horse Odds, History & Predictions

The 2023 Preakness Stakes contenders field has been announced, along with post position and initial morning line odds.

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Blazing Sevens Preakness Stakes Odds and Post Position

Blazing Sevens currently has 6-1 odds to win the Preakness Stakes in 2023. That has him as the underdog in the Preakness Stakes, with the least favorable odds to win. Blazing Sevens drew the 7th post position for the Preakness Stakes, which has produced 14 winners in Preakness History.

Blazing Sevens Horse Trainer and Jockey

Blazing Sevens is trained by Chad Brown, Chad Brown added another Breeders' Cup victory to his career tally in 2022 when his 4-year-old filly Goodnight Olive won the Breeders' Cup filly & Mare Sprint at Keeneland. Irad Ortiz, Jr. will be riding Blazing Sevens in the Preakness. Ortiz won his 77th stakes race of 2022 when he scored on Dr B in the Grade 3 Go For Wand Handicap at Aqueduct. The victory broke the all-time record for stakes wins by a jockey in a single calendar year. Ortiz finished 2022 with 80 stakes wins, and he also set a single-season earnings record for North American jockeys of $37,075,772, eclipsing the previous record of $34.1 million he set in 2019. Irad Ortiz Jr. rode Blazing Sevens for the first time in the Blue Grass, and the reigning Eclipse Award winner keeps the mount in the Preakness.

Blazing Sevens Race History

Blazing Sevens has a career record of 6 starts, 2 wins, 0 second-place finishes, and 2 third-place finishes. Blazing Sevens boosted his Equibase Speed Figure to 94 from a 65 earned when he finished a disappointing eighth, defeated by 26 lengths, in the Fountain of Youth Stakes back in March.

Blazing Sevens Prediction and Pick

Blazing Sevens has a very determined trainer looking for his second Preakness Stakes win. With an Equibase Speed Figure of 98, Blazing Sevens has 6-1 odds. Ortiz finished second in the 2021 Preakness on Midnight Bourbon. Chad Brown will be seeking his second consecutive Preakness victory after winning with Early Voting last year; he also won the 2017 running with Cloud Computing. Like Blazing Sevens, neither Cloud Computing not Early Voting competed in the Kentucky Derby before starting in the Preakness.