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An odds-on favorite is one that's less than even money. Going back to 1890, the first year the Preakness race charts list each horse's odds, here are the odds-on favorites and how they fared. Year Horse Odds to dollar Fin. Winner 1989 Easy Goer .60 2nd Sunday Silence 1984 Swale .80 7th Gate Dancer 1982 Linkage .50 2nd Aloma's Ruler 1979 Spectacular Bid. .10 1st Spectacular Bid 1978 Affirmed .50 1st Affirmed 1977 Seattle Slew .40 1st Seattle Slew 1976 Honest Pleasure .90 5th Elocutionist 1973 Secretariat .30 1st Secretariat 1972 Riva Ridge .30 4th Bee Bee Bee 1969 Majestic Prince.

Bill Donovan no longer has to worry about his horse missing the Preakness field for want of enough earnings."We're in, definitely," the trainer of Dash For Dotty said yesterday morning. "I knew it when they brought over my Preakness jackets."Finally, Dash For Dotty is getting some good fortune after a disappointment in the Blue Grass Stakes and a controversy that kept the gelding out of the Federico Tesio Stakes at Pimlico Race Course, the major prep for the Preakness.Donovan could find easier pickings on the 3-year-old schedule, but the horse's owner, Henry Rosenberg Jr., chairman of the board of Crown Central Petroleum, wanted to take a shot at his hometown's biggest race.

IT DOESN'T GET much better than this.First, there was the Pimlico Special. It took a record-breaking, devastating display of speed by Farma Way to beat the best older horses in training. Rarely has such a collection of animals, in the peak of health, congregated in one race at one time.Now, the momentum from that race has carried over to the 116th Preakness.There is not a great rivalry in the mold of a Sunday Silence-Easy Goer match or the feeling that you are about to witness an awesome display of equine power by a Secretariat or a Spectacular Bid.But the neatly packaged Preakness that will be presented tomorrow (5:32, Ch. 13)

Smarty Jones' connections wanted to be outside of fellow speedster Lion Heart coming out of the gate. Lion Heart's connections wanted to be inside of everybody. Both wishes were granted yesterday at the post position draw for the 129th Preakness Stakes at the ESPN Zone. Their preferences were practically guaranteed earlier in the day when Smarty Jones was second in the lineup to pick, followed immediately by Lion Heart. John Servis, trainer of the undefeated Kentucky Derby winner, picked post 7, the horse's lucky number, after long-shot Little Matth Man - first in the selection order - landed in the No. 3 gate.

Today, The Sun begins a story unusual in content and in form. In 16 concise chapters, "God's Other Plan" will relate the events of Marci Crosby's life much as they unfolded for her. It is a story of love, loss and the bonds of family .July 1995Dear Jessica,"My whole life I wanted to be a mommy to a precious little girl and have a great husband. Boy, did I hit the lotto ..."From the bed in the guest room of her parents' house, Marci Crosby watched her daughter push a toy shopping cart down the hallway.

Reginald "Billy" Edwards, a middleweight boxer who under the pseudonym "El Kadir The Terrible Turk" fought in more than 125 fights in the Baltimore-Washington area and the South during the 1920s, died Saturday of natural causes at his Randallstown home.Mr. Edwards, who was 90, began fighting for pay when he was 13 and fought in many "Battle Royals" at the old New Albert Theatre on Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore. He took on all challengers in "come one, come all" matches for prize money.

William Boskent, a record company and nightclub owner who wrote, produced and arranged songs for the likes of rhythm-and-blues legends Antoine "Fats" Domino and Lloyd Price, died Aug. 4 of a heart attack after a brief illness at the University of Maryland Medical System's University Specialty Hospital in Baltimore. The Hyattsville resident was 77. With a music industry career spanning more than five decades, Mr. Boskent is perhaps best known for co-writing such successful songs as "Georgianna," for his part in Mr. Price's hit "Just Because" and for writing and arranging the popular tunes "There You Go," "Shame" and "Three Fools."

The winner of the Kentucky Derby and the winner of the Preakness may - or may not - meet again June10 in the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. The trainers of Red Bullet, who won Saturday's Preakness, and Fusaichi Pegasus, winner of the Derby, said yesterday that their colts would run in the Belmont only if they're thriving. Otherwise, they said, they'll wait for 3-year-old stakes later in the year.`This horse was perfect for this race," said Joe Orseno, trainer of Red Bullet, referring to the Preakness.

Jockey Javier Castellano was making his move with Bernardini at the 5/16 pole, in the middle of the final turn of the 131st Preakness. He had passed Brother Derek, was moving up on leader Sweetnorthernsaint and had only one worry. Where was Barbaro? Castellano looked back under his arm for the Kentucky Derby winner, who was heavily favored to win the second jewel of the Triple Crown, but he couldn't find him. "As soon as I crossed the finish line, I saw a horse in the middle of the racetrack," said Castellano, who beat Sweetnorthernsaint by 5 1/4 lengths.

Nobody called the exterminator Friday when an influx of insects entered Carrolltowne Elementary School, or even when they paraded around the second-grade suite after lunch.In fact, the six-legged creatures were applauded and given awards.The bugs weren't real, of course. They were models that the second-grade students had created to complete a science unit.The youngsters celebrated their creations at a fall party, where they made more bugs from apple slices, marshmallows, raisins, licorice sticks and toothpicks.