Ready for the 2011 Preakness Stakes from Pimlico? With the first leg of this year’s Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby in the books we’re now onto race 2. Here’s a look at the top horses in this year’s Preakness Field.
Ready for the 2010 Preakness Stakes from Pimlico? With the first leg of this year’s Triple Crown, the 136th Kentucky Derby in the books we’re now onto race 2. Here’s a look at the top horses in this year’s Preakness Field.
Maryland’s chief executive and several friends visited Saratoga in 1868 several years after America’s oldest track opened. Gov. Oden Bowie and other prominent racing figures attended a dinner party where they pledged to build a track in their state if a special race for 3-year-old colts and fillies was run in two years.
The 2009 Kentucky Derby was the second-biggest upset in Derby history, and easily the biggest in modern times. The 50-1 longshot Mine That Bird rallied from 19th place to win the Derby by 6 ¾ lengths, also the second-longest margin of victory in Derby history. Only two horses in the field had longer odds than him, Atomic Rain at 55-1 and Join in the Dance at 51-1.
Event: The 134th Running Of The $1,000,000 Preakness Stakes – The Miiddle Jewel Of The Triple Crown
Date: Saturday May 16th, 2009
Location: Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, MD
Post Time: 6:15PM (EST)
TV Network: NBC, 5:00PM (EST)
After watching one of the greatest upsets in Kentucky Derby history as 50-1 shot, Mine That Bird won going away, it is hard to know what to expect in next Saturday’s 134th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico race track in Baltimore.
