The Preakness Stakes – Horse Racing
Posted April 28, 2010 – 11:50 pm in: Horse RacingHorse Racing has been around for centuries and it is a sport with a very rich history of culture and tradition. In America, Pimlico Race Track, found in Baltimore, Maryland, is one the most well known race tracks. Because it is the host of one of the Triple Crown Races, namely the Preakness Stakes, which is one of the reasons it has become so famous in Kentucky Derby Betting.
The Maryland Juvenile Championship, the Rollicking Stakes, the Challedon Stakes, and The Maryland Million among others are the variety of stakes events to which the Preakness Stakes is actually the home. In the sport of horse racing, it is highly regarded sport and it is the second oldest track in the United States, the oldest one being Saratoga.
The idea of the track was contributed by H. Sanford, John Hunter, and Oden Bowie (who was the Maryland Governor at the time) and on October 25, 1870, Pimlico was officially opened. They agreed on an initial purse of $15,000 and began the construction of the course.
The race track was given the name “Pimlico” and the Maryland Jockey Club soon purchased it, as the race track was being constructed. The whole track took up about 70 acres and was completed in time for the 1870 dinner party. The Preakness Stakes was born as the horse who won the first race was “Preakness”, thus the name
Ever since then, this track has seen the likes of the horse Seabiscuit among others and has been a renowned course. The Magna Entertainment Corp handled the track most recently, until it went bankrupt last year. What it is today and future events will only add to that culture which has made Pimlico so famous, all of these different events add to that rich history that make Pimlico.
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