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2024 Preakness Contenders: SEIZE THE GREY

The 149th Preakness (G1) is this Saturday, May 18, at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The 1 3/16-mile race is the second leg of the Triple Crown. usracing.com is publishing profiles of the contenders. 2024 Preakness Stakes Contender SEIZE THE GREY The Pat Day Mile was one of the deepest and most c...
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2024 Preakness Contenders: MYSTIK DAN

The 149th Preakness (G1) is this Saturday, May 18, at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The 1 3/16-mile race is the second leg of the Triple Crown. usracing.com is publishing profiles of the contenders. 2024 Preakness Stakes Contender MYSTIK DAN Almost as soon as the ink was dry in the Kentucky Derb...
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The Preakness Stakes: Going the Distance

The distance of the Preakness 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 contested ...
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Preakness Stakes History: How it Started

In 1973 - 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 br...
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Champions and the Preakness Stakes

A total of 16 of the last 26 Preakness Stakes winners have been named champion 3-year-old male at the annual Eclipse Awards, the most recent being Triple Crown winner Justify in 2018. The 2020 Preakness Stakes winner Swiss Skydiver was honored with the Eclipse Award as champion 3-year-old female tha...
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Preakness Favorite Muth Spikes Fever; Scratched

Muth, the morning-line favorite for Saturday’s $2 million Preakness (G1), has been declared out of the race after spiking a fever following his arrival at Pimlico Race Course late Tuesday night. Muth has been scratched from the Preakness leaving stablemate Imagination as Baffert's sole Preakness r...
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