On May 17th, the Pimlico Race Course will organize the second jewel of the Triple Crown by North American Horse Racing as a talented group of 3-year-olds, including Kentucky Derby, which is presented by Woodford Reserve winner sovereignty, will contest the Preakness Stakes. This year the route, the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland are celebrating the 150th edition of this signature race.
Historically speaking, the race was one of the most essential in the decision about the 3-year male honor of the championship at the end of the year, and the prevalence determined whether a triple crown was at stake three weeks later in the Belmont Stakes. Get ready for this year's run with some humorous statistics and facts below.
0 – The frequency with which the prevalence was held on a Sunday. The race has been taking place at least four times every second day of the week since its foundation in 1873. Preakness has been taking place on a Saturday every year since 1931. Tuesday takes second place with 14 issues of the prevention on this day of the week.
1 3/16 miles – The removal of the prevention since 1925. It is a sixteenth miles shorter than the Kentucky Derby.
1:53 – Secretariat time in the issue of The Preakness from 1973, a record record. The race was originally coordinated in 1:54 2/5, but this error was corrected in 2012, which resulted in “Substantial Red” the Stakes record for all three triple crown races. Read more about the 39-year-old controversy.
2 – The number of people who have both dangers and trained. Louis J. Schaefer won the 1929 edition as a jockey on board Dr. Freeland and trained Challengeon in 1939. Johnny Longden duplicated the performance with the winning of the preakness on Count Fleet from 1943, before he trained the winner Majestic Prince in 1969.
6 – The number of stut foals (women) who have won the prevention: Flocarline, 1903; Bizarre, 1906; Rhein Maiden, 1915; Nellie Morse, 1924; And then an 85-year-old gap in front of the later horse of the year won Rachel Alexandra in 2009. Swiss parachute jump became sixth in 2020 when she overdone Kentucky Derby winner Original to win an unforgettable checkness for coach Kenny McPeek. Learn more about these six magnificent futkmale.
7 – 7 – The number of Walldings that won the preakness missions with the youngest being in 2003. From 1920 to 1934, moneyings were not allowed to compete at the prevention.
8 -The number of 3-year-olds bred in Maryland has won Maryland's characteristic races: Cloverbrook (1877), Dunboyne (1887), reimbursement (1888), Sly Fox (1898), Challedon (1939), Kauai King (1966), Bee Bee Bee (1972) and Deput Testay (1983).
8 – 8 – The record number of preakness victories for the Hall of Fame coach Bob Baffert, who gave the race with Silver Charm (1997), Real Tranquil (2001), was Emblem (2002), Lookin at Lucky (2010) Triple Crown Winner American Pharoah (2015), Triple Crown winner (2018) and national treasure (2023). The Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas won his seventh victory in the race with the Gray last year.
10 -The number of preakness winners who were generated by a preakness winner, including the winner in 2016, by preakness Victor Curlin until 2007.
11 – The frequency in its famed story that the prevalance missions were operated before the Kentucky Derby, and two races were on the same day twice in 1917 and 1922.
11 ½ lengths – Smarty Jones' profit margin in Preakness 2004, a record record. The previous brand was 10 lengths from Survivor in 1873. Read more about the Buzz smarty Jones in the middle Atlantic area in spring.
12 -The number of cases in which the Belmont Stakes was held before the checkness, most recently in 2020 due to the Covid 19 pandemic, when the Belmont Stakes took place in June with the Kentucky Derby in September and Preakness in October. Before 2020, the standard order of the derby followed two weeks later through the prevention, which had existed three weeks later by the Belmont Stakes since 1969.
16 – The number of preakness winners, whose name began with the letter 'S'. These include the very first winner, Survivor (1873), the Triple Crown winner Sir Barton (1919), the secretariat (1973) and Seattle Slew (1977) and the Dual -Classic winner Smarty Jones (2004). Another famed “Sunday Silence” is the latest practical winner who prevails through the slimest edges of a nose. He defeated Simple Goer through a nose in her classic rivalry in 1989. Take the Gray in 2024 the youngest winner, whose name began with the letter 'S'.
17 – The frequency with which a horse breaks from postposition No. 6 has won the prevention. Rombauer was the last one who did this21 in 2021. The gray achieved the No. 6 Saddlecloth in 2024, but started after the Muth scripts after position five.
19 – The race was decided by a head or less in 19 cases, the last of the last event when the National Treasure landed by a head of a head in 2023.
22 -The number of the prevention winners, who are called Horse of the Year and the highest award of Racing Racing in the same year. The Triple Crown winner Justify (2018) is the youngest of such horse.
36 – Total number of horses who won the prevalence after a victory in Kentucky Derby. Only 13 of them won the Belmont Stakes and swept the triple crown.
$ 48.80 -The biggest victory payment of all time in the race when the 23: 1 Master derby in 1975 won.
73 – In 150 races (the preak was operated in two divisions in 1918), 73 winners started the race as a betting favorite. The last favorite that won the prevention was justified, which intended in 2018 with 2 to 5 chances of winning. Quote in 1948 and a spectacular offer from 1979 with 1:10 chances that were bound to the winner of the shortest prize in the history of preakness history.
105 -The number of the preakness winners who were bred in Kentucky, including the last nine since the California California Chrome 2014.
150 – This year the milestone is 150. As already mentioned, it was first contested in 1873, but was not carried out from 1891 to 1893.
$ 2.050 – Washbear of the first prevalance in 1873.
140.237 – – The record system for the preciscation, which plays in 2017 when cloud computing achieved a surprise, while the winner of Kentucky Derby always faded eighth as the 6-to-5 favorite.
$ 2 million – The overall support of the race in 2025. The winner receives 60% of it.
112,504,509 USD -Dollar bets on the prececious day in 2021, the highest all-sources that are ever led to the preakness card. The last year for the preakness day was more than 101.6 million dollars.
