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Trainer Todd Pletcher has one source of concern as he brings Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver into the Preakness: the calendar. He frets about putting his colt back into competition only two weeks since he ran at Churchill Downs.
To people who pay only casual attention to the sport, as well as to some old-timers, such a worry might be hard to comprehend. The Derby and the Preakness have been spaced two weeks apart since 1950, causing no evident problems for the horses or their trainers. In earlier years the races were closer together. Sir Barton won the 1919 Derby on a Saturday and captured the Preakness the next Wednesday.
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