Check out the Preakness….going on right now (click the image to watch).
On a late summer evening in 1868, an agreement among sportsmen to stage a special race to commemorate a memorable occasion became the foundation for the middle jewel of racing’s Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes.
The Preakness Stakes has remained throughout history a true test of a horse’s ability and class, a race where remarkable horses meet one another in a great classic.
The phrase “Triple Crown” was not coined until the 1930’s, but it is this race on every third Saturday in May where the best Derby horses gather to see if there will be that window of opportunity for a Triple Crown Prospect. Much goes on during this colorful time at Pimlico, but it has always been the horse that draws the fans. As poet Ogden Nash wrote:
“The Derby is a race of aristocratic sleekness, for horses of birth to prove their worth to run in the Preakness.”
