The owners of Creative Minister paid $150,000 to make the steel-gray colt eligible to run in Saturday’s 147th Preakness Stakes (G1). That’s just $30,000 less than what they paid for Creative Minister at Keeneland’s 2020 September yearling sale.

(Field for the Preakness with posts, below)

The reason for the pricey supplemental entry fee is that Creative Minister (Creative Cause – Tamboz by Tapit) was not nominated to the Triple Crown. In fact, the colt was still more than a month from running when the Jan. 29 deadline to make a 3-year-old an early nominee for $600 for the Kentucky Derby (G1), Preakness and Belmont Stakes (G1) came around. When the late nominations closed, for $6,000 per horse on March 29, he had raced only once, a close second.

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