Baltimore’s nickname is Charm City, and the charm of its signature race is that if the Kentucky Derby (G1) winner shows up, there’s a chance for a Triple Crown. Times change, and no longer is the Preakness an automatic destination for the Derby champion. As expected, Derby favorite is the one to...
Each year, the winner of the Preakness Stakes is adorned with a blanket of Black-Eyed Susans across the withers and in front of the jockey. The Black-Eyed Susan blanket is created shortly before Preakness Day and it takes about eight hours for four people to construct it. It’s made up of black m...
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert is the Preakness Stakes’ most successful active trainer with eight wins, including Triple Crown winners American Pharoah (2015) and Justify (2018). His other Preakness winners were Silver Charm (1997), Real Quiet (1998), Point Given (2001), War Emblem (2002), Looki...
Baltimore’s nickname is Charm City, and the charm of its signature race is that if the Kentucky Derby (G1) winner shows up, there’s a chance for a Triple Crown. Times change, and no longer is the Preakness an automatic destination for the Derby champion. As expected, Derby favorite is the one to...
Moments after the finish of the Preakness Stakes is declared official, a hydraulic lift hoists a painter, his paints (lots of them) and his ladder a couple of dozen feet into the air, whereupon he will meticulously apply the colors of the winning owner and the winning horse’s number to the weather...
With regular rider Jose Ortiz booked to ride Clever Again in the 150th Preakness Stakes (G1) on Saturday, Mark Casse found himself a Hall of Famer to climb aboard Sandman – John Velazquez. Sandman gets Hall of Fame service in the saddle for Preakness “Johnny is a strong rider, and Sandman needs...
The trophy presented to the winning connections of the Preakness Stakes is known as the Woodlawn Vase and is considered to be the most valuable trophy in sports, and the current appraised value is reported to be in excess of $4 million. Standing 36 inches tall and weighing 400 ounces of solid sterli...
The distance of the Preakness Stakes is 1 3⁄16 miles, or 9 1⁄2 furlongs or 1.88 kilometers, compared to the 1 ¼-mile Kentucky Derby, which is contested two weeks before the Preakness. It is followed by the third leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, three weeks later and typ...
Attendance at the Preakness Stakes usually ranks second in North America behind the Kentucky Derby and usually surpasses the attendance of all other stakes races, including the Belmont Stakes, the Breeders' Cup Saturday program, and Kentucky Oaks Day. Unfortunately, in 2020, there were no spectat...
In 1873, two years before the first Kentucky Derby, Pimlico outside of Baltimore, Maryland, ran a stakes race for 3-year-olds during its first-ever spring race meet. Then-governor Oden Bowie named the race, which was set at a distance of 1 ½ miles, in honor of a horse named Preakness who was bre...
He’s in, he’s happy, and he’s the favorite. Any questions? Journalism joined the field for the 150th Preakness Stakes (G1) and was made the 8-5 morning-line favorite Monday in a field of nine 3-year-olds going 1 3/16 miles in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown. Derby ...
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