2022 Preakness Stakes: Results, payouts, order of finish for Early Voting’s victory

Early Voting qualified to run in the Kentucky Derby on May 7, but trainer Chad Brown bypassed the Run for the Roses to stick with his plan to point the colt to the Preakness Stakes.

Following the game plan that produced Preakness Stakes winner Cloud Computing in 2017, Brown got another win in the second race of the Triple Crown series with Early Voting at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday.

Epicenter ran in the Kentucky Derby as the betting favorite, but the colt finished as the runner-up to Rich Strike at Churchill Downs. On Saturday, Epicenter again went off as the betting favorite in a Triple Crown race, but the colt finished second again.

In only the fourth race of his career, Early Voting settled in behind frontrunner Armagnac for much of the race, swung around the long-shot leader rounding the far turn and couldn’t be caught down the stretch. Early Voting won by 1.25 lengths over Epicenter.

Epicenter went off as a 6-5 favorite with bettors. Early Voting was at 5-1.

Early Voting paid $13.40 to win, $4.60 to place and $3.60 to show.

Epicenter paid $2.80 to place and $2.40 to show.

Creative Minister paid $4.20 to show.

The $2 exacta of Early Voting and Epicenter paid $25.80.

The $1 trifecta of Early Voting, Epicenter and Creative Minister paid $66.50.

The $1 superfecta, with fourth-place finisher Secret Oath joining the top three, paid $162.90. Secret Oath was seeking to become the seventh filly to win the Preakness.

Early Voting had never raced outside of Aqueduct before Saturday. The colt won in his first race on Dec. 18, captured the Grade 3 Withers Stakes in start-to-finish fashion on Feb. 5 and ran second by a neck to faster-closing Mo Donegal in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial on April 9 in his previous outings.

The 2022 Kentucky Derby winner did not run in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday. Rich Strike won the Kentucky Derby on May 7 as an 80-1 long shot, but the colt’s owner, Rick Dawson, decided to bypass the opportunity to pursue the Triple Crown rather than make the two-week turnaround.

The Triple Crown series for 2022 will wrap up on June 11 with the Belmont Stakes.

The order of finish for the 147th Preakness Stakes was:

1. Early Voting

2. Epicenter

3. Creative Minister

4. Secret Oath

5. Skippylongstocking

6. Simplification

7. Armagnac

8. Happy Jack

9. Fenwick

Early Voting, with Jose Ortiz aboard, wins the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, May 21, 2022, at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.

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