{"id":436357,"date":"2023-05-20T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436357"},"modified":"2023-05-20T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T00:18:00","slug":"bobs-national-treasure-triumphs-at-preakness","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bobs-national-treasure-triumphs-at-preakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob&#8217;s National Treasure triumphs at Preakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Treasure gave Baffert an 8th Preakness victory and finished Mage&#8217;s Triple Crown effort in his return from a suspension \u2013 and after earlier today, one of his 3-year-old horses was euthanized.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">National Treasure wins the 148th running of the Preakness Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first Preakness win for Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez, and a record eighth Preakness win for trainer Bob Baffert.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NBCSports<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Preakness148?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Preakness148<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t3lDEoZgTA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/t3lDEoZgTA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1660062169231237120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Baffert triumphed hours after his colt Havnameltdown suffered a fatal leg injury on the track in an undercard contest. Bob shared that he and the people around him were in shock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place,&#8221; Baffert shared, choking back tears after National Treasure&#8217;s victory, &#8220;losing that horse hours ago really hurts. It&#8217;s been a very sensitive day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mage, that conquered Derby, finished in 3rd place after being the favorite for the victory at Preakness. That determines there will not be a Triple Crown champ for 5<sup>th<\/sup> year in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Treasure gave Baffert an 8th Preakness victory and finished Mage&#8217;s Triple Crown effort in his return from a suspension \u2013 and after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":436360,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[14084],"gn_keywords":[19515,19517,19516],"acf":{"announce":"Baffert's horse was euthanized hours earlier.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436357"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436357"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}