2006 Preakness Results

Bernardini leaves the winner's circle wearing his Preakness winner blanket. Jockey Javier Castellano said, "That's a great feeling when you ride this kind of horse, put them right there in good spot and you ride more confident, you believe in yourself and the horse, and that's great emotion for me and for more experience and my profession and career. That's a really great horse. The point at which I felt I could win the race was at the 1/2-mile pole when I had so much horse to go the best he can, and I realized it at the 3/8. I don't see the horses coming out and it's time to go in between the two horses. He took off."