Preakness 2012 Results: I'll Have Another Won't Win Triple Crown

Everyone loves a good Triple Crown race, but don't expect a storybook ending for I'll Have Another. Whether it's in the MLB or in horse racing, the reason people enjoy these races is because they're near impossible feats to accomplish.

I'll Have Another has brought horse racing into the limelight once again, thanks to his last-second bursts of speed, but that trick can only work so many times.

While the 2012 Preakness and Kentucky Derby winner's team must be thrilled to hear rival Bodemeister will not race in the Belmont Stakes, that doesn't ensure we'll see the first Triple Crown horse since 1978.

I'll Have Another proved at the Preakness that he can win the short- and intermediate-length races in search of the coveted title, but I can't see him pulling the last-second race to the finish on the longest course.

On jockey Mario Gutierrez's end, the mental toll of trying to win three straight races in five weeks—with all the talk of his horse's Triple Crown chances—will prove to be tolling.

The current drought between Triple Crown-winning horses is the longest in horse racing history, and only 11 horses in the span of these 34 years have won the first two races.

I'll Have Another has shown the nation that he is a well-trained horse, but the pressure on his jockey's shoulders along with the history of horse racing for the past three decades does not put the odds in his favor.

There have been plenty of horses just as skilled, if not more so than the current Triple Crown-chaser, but achieving this goal is near impossible when looking at the current history of horse racing.