The field for the 2008 Preakness Stakes has been set at 13 (see below list), including Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown, and the post positions will be drawn later this afternoon. Pimlico handicapper Frank Carulli will release the morning line after today’s post position draw.

“It will be in the 3-5 range,” Carulli said of the morning line on Big Brown.

A winner at final odds of 3-5 pays $3.20 or $3.40. It’s interesting to note that Post-time favorites have won 68 of the 133 runnings of the Preakness. Will Big Brown make it 69? If he does, can he take on a bigger and more challenging field at the Belmont Stakes? Questions like those make for great horse racing props and leave it to the oddsmakers over at Bodog Racebook to come up with these Preakness props:

• How many lengths will the winner of the Preakness Stakes win by?
• What will the winning saddlecloth number of the 133nd Preakness Stakes be?
• Will the winner of the 133rd Preakness Stakes complete the race faster than the 1:53.46 time of Curlin last year?

Here is the field for the 2008 Preakness Stakes, including jockey name/trainer name:

Big Brown Desormeaux/Dutrow
Behindatthebar Flores/Pletcher
Gayego Smith/Lobo
Giant Moon Dominguez/Schosberg
Hey Byrn Lopez/Plesa
Icabad Crane Rose/Motion
Kentucky Bear Theriot/Baker
Macho Again Leparoux/Stewart
Racecar Rhapsody Albarado/McPeek
Riley Tucker Prado/Mott
Stevil Velazquez/Zito
Tres Borrachos T. Baze/Greely
Yankee Bravo Solis/Gallagher

Get all your Preakness Stakes odds here.