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05-11-2009, 01:07 PM
Preakness notes (source Thoroughbred Record)
This middle jewel is actually two years OLDER than the Kentucky Derby, but due to it's not running in 1891-3
it has had ONE fewer runnings. It has NOT been the same contest since its inception:
1) it has been run at 7 different distances being as hort as one mile in 19009-10 and as long as 1 3/4 in 1889 and 1 3/16 since 1925.
2) from 1910 -16 the Preakness was run as a handicap, from 1895-1907 as an allowance (limiting it to horses
that had not won a race worth a cetain amount)
3) it was NOT always limited to three year olds
4) it was run in divisions in 1918
5) The Preakness preceded the Belmont 11 times between 1888 and 1931
6) The reace was run at Morris Park in New York in 1890 and 15 years it was stage at Gravesend Race Course in Brooklyn
returning to Baltimore in 1909.
7) Unlike the Belmont stakes, which was not run in 1911-12 due to anti-gambling legislation, the Preakness was run during
those years.
8) in 1890, the Preakness and Belmont were run on the same card at Morris Park.
9) NO female trainer has won the race although (just like the Derby) the closest has been Shelly Riley with Casual Lies in 1992 running third
10) Lukas has won it 5 times to lead all trainers, but both Bob Baffert and Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons have each won 4 runnings.Calumet
leads all breeders.
11) surprisingly the SLOWEST Preakness at the modern distance was 1948 Citation on a heavy tack in 2:02 2/5
12) largest margins was the first winner, Survivor by 10 but Funny Cide is second by 9 1/4
13) Gelding have done well, but not recently 03 Funny Cide, 93 Prarie Bayou, 14 Holiday, 13 Buskin, 10 Layminster
07 Don Enrique,1876 Sirley ........but geldings were banned from the race between 1920 and 1934
14) Fillies have done reasonably well with winners Flocarline 1903, Whimsical 1906,Rhine Maiden 1915 Nellie Morse 1924, with seconds by Sadie S in 1901, Kiamesha 1905, Content 1906, Polly Ann 1921 and Genuine Risk 1980.
ORIGINS
"Born out of a party toast and named for a horse who me an unfortunate end, the Preakness is the second jewel of the Triple Crown and the
second oldest American Classic......At a party hosted by Milton H. Sanford in Saratoga 1868, Maryland govern or Oden Bowie promised that a new trace track would open in Baltimore to ply host to the Dinner Party Stakes, to which he pledged a hefty purse.....Pimlico opened on October 25, 1870 and Sanford a new York horseman who had made a fortune selling blankets to the army in the Civil War, sent his three year old colt Preakness to made his only start of that year in the new Dinner Party Stakes. The name PREAKNESS is derived from the language of the Minisi Indians in northern Hew jersey and in their language os "pra-qua-les which meant "quail woods."
Under English jockey Billy Hayward, Preakness won the first Dinner Party stakes (today know nas the Dixie Stakes grade 2, run on the grass).Preakness was late sold to England for stud. The horse became difficult and years later was shot to death by his owner, the Duke of Hamilton.Three years later in 1873, the Maryland Jockey Club staged its first spring meeting and honored the winner of the first Dinner Party Stakes by naming the 1 1/2 mile race for three year olds the Preakness Stakes.......
The black eyed Susan, Maryland's state flower since 1918, blooms each summer and fall in Maryland and other states but NOT in the Spring. Thus, the black eye Susans that adorn the Preakness winner are actually Viking daisies in disguise. They were fist draped across Bimelich withers after the 1940 Preakness
This middle jewel is actually two years OLDER than the Kentucky Derby, but due to it's not running in 1891-3
it has had ONE fewer runnings. It has NOT been the same contest since its inception:
1) it has been run at 7 different distances being as hort as one mile in 19009-10 and as long as 1 3/4 in 1889 and 1 3/16 since 1925.
2) from 1910 -16 the Preakness was run as a handicap, from 1895-1907 as an allowance (limiting it to horses
that had not won a race worth a cetain amount)
3) it was NOT always limited to three year olds
4) it was run in divisions in 1918
5) The Preakness preceded the Belmont 11 times between 1888 and 1931
6) The reace was run at Morris Park in New York in 1890 and 15 years it was stage at Gravesend Race Course in Brooklyn
returning to Baltimore in 1909.
7) Unlike the Belmont stakes, which was not run in 1911-12 due to anti-gambling legislation, the Preakness was run during
those years.
8) in 1890, the Preakness and Belmont were run on the same card at Morris Park.
9) NO female trainer has won the race although (just like the Derby) the closest has been Shelly Riley with Casual Lies in 1992 running third
10) Lukas has won it 5 times to lead all trainers, but both Bob Baffert and Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons have each won 4 runnings.Calumet
leads all breeders.
11) surprisingly the SLOWEST Preakness at the modern distance was 1948 Citation on a heavy tack in 2:02 2/5
12) largest margins was the first winner, Survivor by 10 but Funny Cide is second by 9 1/4
13) Gelding have done well, but not recently 03 Funny Cide, 93 Prarie Bayou, 14 Holiday, 13 Buskin, 10 Layminster
07 Don Enrique,1876 Sirley ........but geldings were banned from the race between 1920 and 1934
14) Fillies have done reasonably well with winners Flocarline 1903, Whimsical 1906,Rhine Maiden 1915 Nellie Morse 1924, with seconds by Sadie S in 1901, Kiamesha 1905, Content 1906, Polly Ann 1921 and Genuine Risk 1980.
ORIGINS
"Born out of a party toast and named for a horse who me an unfortunate end, the Preakness is the second jewel of the Triple Crown and the
second oldest American Classic......At a party hosted by Milton H. Sanford in Saratoga 1868, Maryland govern or Oden Bowie promised that a new trace track would open in Baltimore to ply host to the Dinner Party Stakes, to which he pledged a hefty purse.....Pimlico opened on October 25, 1870 and Sanford a new York horseman who had made a fortune selling blankets to the army in the Civil War, sent his three year old colt Preakness to made his only start of that year in the new Dinner Party Stakes. The name PREAKNESS is derived from the language of the Minisi Indians in northern Hew jersey and in their language os "pra-qua-les which meant "quail woods."
Under English jockey Billy Hayward, Preakness won the first Dinner Party stakes (today know nas the Dixie Stakes grade 2, run on the grass).Preakness was late sold to England for stud. The horse became difficult and years later was shot to death by his owner, the Duke of Hamilton.Three years later in 1873, the Maryland Jockey Club staged its first spring meeting and honored the winner of the first Dinner Party Stakes by naming the 1 1/2 mile race for three year olds the Preakness Stakes.......
The black eyed Susan, Maryland's state flower since 1918, blooms each summer and fall in Maryland and other states but NOT in the Spring. Thus, the black eye Susans that adorn the Preakness winner are actually Viking daisies in disguise. They were fist draped across Bimelich withers after the 1940 Preakness