The Preakness Stakes is an American Grade I flat horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds held yearly at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It’s the second leg of the Triple Crown sequence, following the Kentucky Derby and previous the Belmont Stakes. The Preakness Stakes was first run in 1873 and is known as after Preakness, a well-known trotting horse who received the inaugural race.
The Preakness Stakes is likely one of the most prestigious horse races on the earth and is called “The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans” because of the blanket of black-eyed susans draped over the winner. The race is 1 3/16 miles lengthy and is run on a mud observe. The Preakness Stakes has an extended and storied historical past, and lots of the biggest horses in historical past have received the race, together with Seabiscuit, Secretariat, and American Pharoah.
