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There's one reason above all others that only 11 horses in history have swept the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred racing—it's brutally difficult. It appears I'll Have Another isn't going to receive any free pass this year, either.

The Bob Baffert trained Bodemeister will be the morning-line favorite for Saturday's 137th Preakness Stakes over the Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another. Bodemeister managed to hold on for second despite a blistering early pace, and if he can get a more moderate pace today, he could have enough coming down the stretch to hold

Saturday is the Grade 3, $100,000 Lazaro Barrera Memorial at Betfair Hollywood Park, which drew a field of only four. Drill and American Act finished noses apart in the Grade 2 San Vicente - now they have to transfer that form to the cushion track.

The big race of the day is the Grade 2, $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park, a nine-furlong event.
If Mark Valeski can run back to his nose loss in the Grade 2 Risen Star he will be tough to beat.

There have been many famous chestnuts to win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes. Horses like Whirlaway and Secretariat, two colts that also went on to win the Belmont Stakes and thus become Triple Crown Champions, are among the most notable.

With all the excitement going on and the launch of our new web game plus the Preakness and summer racing closing in fast, we decided to initiate a nice television campaign starting next week. Our commercials will hopefully be running on TVG, HRTV and our fingers are crossed, on NBC during the Preakness.

The new servers have been configured, the server farm is set up and data is being transported over. Today we had to take the site down for about 45 minutes while we ran some database tests. This process will probably happen again over the next couple of days.

Saturday's 138th Kentucky Derby features a full field of 20. Bodemeister's big 9 1/2 length win in the Arkansas Derby will give him likely favoritism over Union Rags who finished runner up in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile last year.

Over the last two days, we started migrating small amounts of data to our new server farm. A migration is a slow process and is taking longer than we realized. Simultaneously, we're dealing with excessively large volumes of traffic due to the Triple Crown racing season. We will stop data migration and continue again Tuesday.

The field for the 138th Kentucky Derby will be finalized on May 2 when post positions are drawn for the first leg of the Triple Crown at Churchill Downs. The Kentucky Derby Post Position Draw will be televised from from 5-6 p.m. Eastern on NBC Sports Network, which was formerly known as Versus.