Great race! A few post race musings:

IHA 3 and 4 wide all the way around and nail biting finish!

Measured B from 4f. 4f surge.  Never bobbles. 

Which brings up subject of rook jock measuring race, and measuring Belmont with TC on the line. Any concerns?   Have to go with Gutierrez.  Otherwise bloom off TC. This is, however, the point at which O'Neill possibly qs his own jockey judgment.  Stick to!

Top 3 from West coast.  East coast best trainer finishes next.

Great athletes, well coached, give memorable performances. That IHA would win this race given training of the rest, there was little doubt.

On that subject--who besides me unable to bet on this race are crying in their cereal this morning over the lost opportunity to make a small fortune on this Preakness.  Exacta $18, IHA $8 to win.  Good grief!

Effect of Lava Man on IHA.  Anybody watch dynamic of these two just before starting gate?

IHA as only one at Pimlico for the duration?

Slower Bodemeister fractions at Pimlico vs. record fractions at Churchill, B had nothing left in either race after 1 and 1/8 miles.  Note to "experts":  Does it follow necessarily that if u slow down a horse running too fast early last race, that same  horse will necessarily have more left in late stretch? 

Query--Baffert trains IHA and ONeill B--who wins Preakness?

Jerry Bailey and Gary Stevens--Neither that I heard commented on IHA training as a factor in the race.  A little baffling perhaps for two Hall of Fame jocks, or merely more normal human inability to connect the dots?

Things I noticed at the outset:  Did IHA raise his tail to start to dump just before they grabbed him into the starting gate?  I never thought this horse looked overly comfortable galloping at any point in the race, possibly for that reason.

Did IHA go down the stretch out of the gate on the wrong lead?  Sort of looks like it.  Three possibilities--jock failed to change (rookie), injury, jock took note, but with short distance left him there.
Note--did saving right lead early lead to stronger closing kick?  Happens.

Preparation of IHA into the Belmont will be interesting. Training between Preakness and Belmont in last 1/3 century possibly explains lack of TC winner???

Are they making too little that IHA sold for $11,000.  Opportunity to promote horse ownership?--and, Tom Hammond it's "IHA sold as $11,000 as a yearling, instead of IHA sold for $35,000 and btw was an $11,000 yearling.  Why even mention the $35,000?  He is an $11,000 yearling, period.

W/o:
4.05 miles--max speed 4.2 mph, av. speed 4 mph. HR 105