Trainer Doug O’Neill said Rock Your World, who finished 17th at the Kentucky Derby, would skip the Preakness and focus on the Belmont Stakes on June 5. Todd Pletcher, who had four horses in the Kentucky Derby field, seemed to be leaning toward keeping all of them out of the Preakness. Brad Cox, whose two entries finished in the top four (second-place Mandaloun and fourth-place Essential Quality), was noncommittal about sending either horse to Baltimore.