Betting The Horses

Horse Racing is a sport with a very rich history of tradition and culture and has been around for centuries. Pimlico Race Track, found in Baltimore, Maryland, is one the most well known race tracks in America. Because it is the host of one of the Triple Crown Races, namely the Preakness Stakes, which is one of the reasons it has become so famous.

The Preakness Stakes is actually the home of a variety of other stakes events including The Maryland Juvenile Championship, the Rollicking Stakes, the Challedon Stakes, and The Maryland Million among others and is not only event that is held here. It is highly regarded in the sport of horse racing and is the second oldest track in the United States, the oldest one being Saratoga.

On October 25, 1870, Pimlico was officially opened and the idea of the track was contributed by H. Sanford, John Hunter, and Oden Bowie (who was the Maryland Governor at the time).  On an initial purse of $15,000, they agreed and began the construction of the course.

The Maryland Jockey Club soon purchased it, as the race track was being constructed and it was given the name “Pimlico”. The whole track was completed in time for the 1870 dinner party and it took up about 70 acres. “Preakness” was the horse that won that race and thus the Preakness Stakes was born.

This track has been a renowned course ever since then and has seen the likes of the horse Seabiscuit among others. The Magna Entertainment Corp, who went bankrupt last year, handled the track most recently. What it is today and future events will only add to that culture which has made Pimlico so famous, all of these different events add to that rich history that make Pimlico.

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