Hall of Fame trainer Woody Stephens liked to “run ’em when they’re doin’ good.” Five days after crushing the 1982 Met Mile by 7¼ lengths with speedy Conquistador Cielo, he saddled “the Con-kwistador,” as he called him, in the Belmont Stakes. Woody’s peaking colt bolted to a 14-lengt...
Forty-four years after Codex gave him his first of six Preakness victories, D. Wayne Lukas is back with longshots Just Steel and Seize the Grey. They would give him 48 entries in the race, a record that will last forever, and the 88-year-old Hall of Famer keeps his enthusiasm for the Pimlico classic...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 mat...
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...
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). Baffert Seeks a ninth Preakness win this year His other Preakness winners were Silver Charm (1997), Real Quiet (1998)...
If you’re looking for a longshot to come through with monster odds in the Preakness, you can all but forget about it. Who will be the longest shot on the board in this year's Preakness Stakes? At first, it seems hard to believe: Since 1911, when pari-mutuel wagering began at Pimlico, there have be...
The post-position draw for the $2 million Preakness (G1) is over. For the most part -- unlike the Kentucky Derby (G1) -- where a horse starts is unlikely to affect how a horse finishes. What is the most successful Preakness post position? The Preakness, at 1 3/16 miles, is a sixteenth of a mile shor...
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