Preakness favorite Muth scratched, setting up Derby winner Mystik Dan

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Preakness favorite Muth is out of the Saturday race after spiking a fever, trainer Bob Baffert said Wednesday.

Muth won the Arkansas Derby and was favored on the morning line at 8-5 odds ahead of Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan (5-2) and Imagination (5-2), another Baffert-trained horse.

"We are sick about this," Baffert said. "The horse had been doing really well. But we