Reality Check
By Bill Oppenheim
When I first saw the time of Saturday’s Preakness S. –1:57:2/5, the slowest in 51 years (Carry Back, 1961) after Gary Stevens lulled them to sleep with a 1:13:1/5 first six furlongs, I thought the Beyer speed figure was sure to come back in the nineties. But when I looked at…