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Divining Rod Preakness Stakes odds were coming in at 18-1 for a payout potential of $180 on every $10 bet.
Winner of the Lexington Stakes, Divining Rod is yet to race against this good a field.
He’s seen as a threat to the favorite American Pharoah by some.
Ellis Star of the National Racing Analyst for Equibase writes of Divining Rod:
Divining Rod has done little wrong in five career starts, four on dirt, winning two of those and finishing second and third in the other two dirt races. His best career effort came in his most recent race, the Coolmore Lexington Stakes at Keeneland last month, with a 105 Equibase Speed Figure. In that race, Divining Rod showed a lot of maturity in relaxing in third in the early stages. Racing on the inside for the first three-quarters of a mile, Divining Rod came out to the three path and drove past the leaders with little encouragement from his jockey, accelerating to a three-length win. That’s the same kind of trip American Pharoah got in his Derby win. With Divining Rod coming back off five weeks rest as well as getting North American leading jockey Javier Castellano as his pilot, he may be capable of posting the upset in this year's Preakness.
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- Don Shapiro, Gambling911.com
