Betting The Horses

The Preakness Downs is an American thoroughbred horse race held annually in Baltimore, MD.  The Preakness Stakes is held on the third Saturday in May.  It is the second of three races that make up the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.  It is follows the Kentucky Derby and is followed by the Belmont Stakes.

The Preakness Stakes is the second most-attended Thoroughbred horse race in North America and lots of betters turn up to put their stakes in Preakness Stakes Betting, following the Kentucky Derby.  It is a one and a three-sixteenths (1.91 km) race held at the Pimlico Race Course.  It is a race for 3-year-old thoroughbred horses.  The Preakness Stakes is sometimes known as “The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans” because the winner of the race is awarded a blanket of Black-eyed Susans, the state flower of Maryland.

The Preakness Stakes is one of the oldest American Thoroughbred horse races, having been inaugurated in 1873, two years before the Kentucky Derby.   There are many traditions that set the Preakness Stakes apart from other Thoroughbred horse races.   The Woodlawn Vase is awarded to he winner each year, a smaller replica is given to them to keep while the original is kept at the Maryland Historical Society.  The weather vane on top of the old Members’ Clubhouse is painted with the victor’s trainer’s colors.

Records of the Preakness Stakes include:

• Speed Record: 1:53.40 – Tank’s Prospect (1985), Louis Quatorze (1996), Curlin (2007)
• Most wins by a jockey: 6, Eddie Arcaro
• Most wins by a trainer: 7, R. Wyndham Walden
• Most wins by an owner: 7, Calumet Farm