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The long-shot win assured that Bob Baffert’s colt could not claim a Triple Crown under the cloud of a positive drug test.

Instead, he fell flat. Concert Tour finished an inexplicable ninth in the 10-horse field, ahead of only D. Wayne Lukas’ long shot, Ram. A horse who once looked like Baffert’s best 3-year-old this year was never in contention in the second leg of the Triple Crown. “I am at a loss for words,” said jockey Mike Smith, who rode Midnight Bourbon in the Kentucky Derby and switched to Concert Tour for the Preakness. “He didn’t seem to participate at all down the backside. He just wasn’t going anywhere, and when I put my hands down, he just backed off. It was very strange.”

A disagreement and a bad clock were key elements in Rombauer pulling off an 11-1 upset in the Preakness.

Rombauer Upsets 146th Preakness With Powerful Stretch Run Sponsored by: Rombauer and Flavien Prat win the 146th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Trainer Michael McCarthy made his first start in a Triple Crown race a big one at Pimlico race course in Baltimore, Md., winning Saturday's 146th running of the Grade 1, $1-million Preakness Stakes with John and Diane Fradkin's homebred Twirling Candy colt Rombauer. Ridden to perfection by Flavien Prat, Rombauer came from off the pace to win the Triple Crown's middle jewel, racing past dueling leaders Midnight Bourbon and Medina S...

Rombauer romped to an 11-1 upset victory in the Preakness on Saturday, denying Bob Baffert-trained Kentucky Derby winner Medina Sprint the chance at a Triple Crown that would have come with a giant asterisk.