2016 Preakness: TV Coverage, NBC Live Stream and Purse Payout Info

The 141st running of the Preakness Stakes is set for Saturday, with Nyquist looking to follow up his Kentucky Derby triumph with a victory at the second leg of the Triple Crown.

Post time for the race will be 6:45 p.m. ET, with coverage of the pre-Preakness races beginning at 3 p.m. ET on NBCSN and NBC Sports Live Extra. Coverage of the race will shift over to NBC at 5 p.m. ET and again will stream on Live Extra.

The purse is guaranteed to be at least $1.5 million, with 60 percent of the purse to the winner ($900,000), 20 percent to second ($300,000), 11 percent to third ($165,000), six percent to fourth ($90,000) and three percent to fifth place ($45,000), according to TheTripleCrown.com.

Here's a list of the field, post positions and betting lines:

Post	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Odds
1	Cherry Wine	Dale Romans	Robby Albarado	20-1
2	Uncle Lino	Gary Sherlock	Fernando Perez	20-1
3	Nyquist	Doug O'Neill	Mario Gutierrez	3-5
4	Awesome Speed	Alan Goldberg	Jevian Toledo	30-1
5	Exaggerator	Keith Desormeaux	Kent Desormeaux	3-1
6	Lani	Mikio Matsunaga	Yutaka Take	30-1
7	Collected	Bob Baffert	Javier Castellano	10-1
8	Laoban	Eric Guillot	Ricardo Santana Jr.	30-1
9	Abiding Star	Ned Allard	J.D. Acosta	30-1
10	Fellowship	Mark Casse	Jose Lezcano	30-1
11	Stradivari	Todd Pletcher	John Velazquez	8-1

At this point, calling Nyquist the front-runner is about as exciting as trying to find new ways to praise two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry, so let's focus on some of the contenders instead.

Exaggerator would be the horse everyone was toasting were it not for Nyquist. He has lost to Nyquist four times now, including finishing second at the Kentucky Derby when his impressive late push wasn't enough to catch up to Nyquist.

Exaggerator's change in style to a late finisher has made the horse far more formidable, however, as he has strong endurance and blew past the field—sans Nyquist—at the Derby. In fact, had the horse had a better line at the Derby, he may have had the late speed to overcome Nyquist.

Would've, could've, should've. But Exaggerator certainly is a threat.

Another strength for Exaggerator is he is excellent in mud, having won twice in sloppy conditions. If it rains Saturday, Exaggerator could benefit from a muddy track.

"Obviously, numbers-wise, horse for horse-wise, it's tough to think we can beat him, right?" said Exaggerator's trainer, Keith Desormeaux, per Ed Gray of the Boston Herald. "But the strongest attribute Exaggerator has is his ability to recover. As you know, this Preakness is run back in two weeks. That's not normal in this day and age to run a horse back that quickly."

The other advantages for Exaggerator?

Well, he's more experienced than Nyquist, having run 10 races to Nyquist's eight, as Pia Catton of the Wall Street Journal wrote. And Catton also noted Exaggerator has run on three weeks' rest several times, whereas Nyquist has done so just once.

"The strongest attribute that Exaggerator has is his ability to recover," Desormeaux told Catton. "I think I have the fitter horse and the fresher horse."

The counterargument, of course, is Nyquist has never lost in eight races, and the one time he did race on short rest, he still won. But Exaggerator is more than capable of stealing this race.

Beyond that, keep an eye on Stradivari and Collected, winners of their last two races, and Lani, an absolute wild card.

But in a field full of shooters and a fair amount of early speed, there don't appear to be many legitimate threats to Nyquist and Exaggerator. This feels like a two-horse race, and if history repeats itself, Nyquist will be one step closer to a Triple Crown.

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