Triple Crown series, No Le Hace won the Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He then won the mile and one sixteenth Louisiana Derby at the Fair Grounds Race Course in late March.
Ridden by jockey Phil Rubbicco in his prep races, No Le Hace was listed as the third favorite on the morning line of the Kentucky Derby at 9–2.
Two weeks later on Saturday, May 20, 1972, No Le Hace was entered in the $200,000 Preakness Stakes run at a mile and three sixteenths on dirt at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.
Under Rubbicco, he was aggressively rated back going into Pimlico's famous "Clubhouse Turn.