The dream of another Triple Crown winner will remain just that for 2017 as Cloud Computing, a colt that skipped the Kentucky Derby, went on to outduel Classic Empire to win the 142nd Preakness Stakes by a head at Pimlico Race Course May 20.
In the process, Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming -- who led from the starting gate to the far turn but faltered badly to finish eighth -- became another Derby winner who was unable to complete the rare feat of winning the Triple Crown.
For awhile, the race shaped up the way many expected.
