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Background - Preakness Stakes
The Preakness stayed at Pimlico throughout the 1870s and `80s, but financial problems struck the track and the Maryland Jockey Club, and the race was moved to New York in 1890, when it was run at Morris Park. The Preakness continued to be run there off and on for nearly two decades, with Gravesend race track in Brooklyn hosting the race 15 times.
In 1909, with the Maryland Jockey Club emerging from its financial difficulties, the Preakness came back home and has never left. That year's renewal was contested at one mile. The race was stretched out to 1-1/8 miles in 1911. The race was established at its current length of 1-3/16 miles in 1925. For most of the 1920s and early `30s, the race was contested in early May, before the Kentucky Derby. In 1930, Gallant Fox's Triple Crown-winning effort required him winning the Preakness on May 9 and the Kentucky Derby eight days later. In the mid-1930s, the race was moved to mid-May, putting it one week after the Kentucky Derby. The current spacing of two weeks between races was established by the late 1940s.
The Preakness Stakes is a classic 1 3/16 mile thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds, held on the third Saturday in May of each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds; fillies 121.
The Preakness is the second and shortest leg in thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, and almost always attracts the Kentucky Derby winner, some of the other horses that ran in the Derby, and often a few horses that did not start in the Derby. (The phrase "Triple Crown" was not applied to this series of races until the 1930s.) It is followed by the third leg, the Belmont Stakes.
Two years before the Kentucky Derby was run for the first time, Pimlico introduced its new stakes race for three-year-olds, the Preakness, during its first-ever spring race meet in 1873. Governor Bowie had named the then mile and one-half race in honor of Dinner Party Stakes-winner, Preakness.
The first Preakness drew seven starters; John Chamberlain's three-year-old, Survivor, galloped home easily by ten lengths--the largest margin of victory until 2004--winning a purse of $2,050.
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 In 1889, George "Spider" Anderson became the first African-American jockey to win the Preakness. Between 1890 and 1908, the Preakness was run at Morris Park Racetrack in the Bronx, New York and at the Gravestand track in Brooklyn, New York.
As soon as the Preakness winner has been declared official, a painter climbs a ladder to the top of a replica of the Old Clubhouse cupola. He applies the colors of the victorious owner's silks on the jockey and horse which are part of the weather vane atop the infield structure.
The practice started in 1909 at Pimlico when a horse and rider weather vane sat at the top of the old Members' Clubhouse, which was constructed when Pimlico opened in 1870. The Victorian building was destroyed by fire in June, 1966. A replica of the old building's cupola was built to stand in the Preakness winner's circle in the infield.
In 1917, the first "Woodlawn Vase" was awarded to the Preakness winner which he was not allowed to keep. Eventually a half-size reproduction of the trophy was given winners to hold on to permanently. The original trophy is kept at the Baltimore Museum of Art and brought to the Preakness race each year for the winner's presentation ceremony.
In 1918, twenty six horses entered the race and it was run in two divisions providing for two winners that year.
In 1948, the Preakness was televised for the first time by CBS.
The Preakness has been run at seven different distances:
1 1/2 miles -- 1873 to 1888 and 1890
1 1/4 miles -- 1889
1 1/16 miles -- 1894 to 1900 and 1908
1 mile 70 yards -- 1901 to 1907
1 mile -- 1909 and 1910
1 1/8 miles -- 1911 to 1924
1 3/16 miles -- 1925 to present
The leading Preakness winning jockeys are:
Eddie Arcaro : 6 - including 2 consecutive wins in 1950-51
Pat Day : 5 - including 3 consecutive wins in 1994-96
George Barbee, Bill Hartack and Lloyd Hughes : 3
The leading Preakness winning trainers are:
Robert W. Walden : 7
Thomas J. Healey : 5
D. Wayne Lukas : 5
"Sunny" Jim Fitzsimmons : 4
H. A. "Jimmy" Jones : 4
Bob Baffert and John Whalen : 3
Calumet Farm is both the leading breeder and owner of Preakness winners with 7 each.
Set by Tank's Prospect in 1985 and equaled by Louis Quatorze in 1996, the speed record for the current 1 3/16 miles Preakness is 1 minute 53 2/5 seconds. The record victory margin is 11½ lengths, by Smarty Jones in 2004.
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