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The race was downgraded to Grade III status for 2011. [7] Since 2013 the event has been the last race with qualification points for the Road to the Kentucky Derby as a Wild Card event. The event was not held 2020 during Keeneland's spring meeting which was moved to July and shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [8]
The 2024 Preakness Stakes was the 149th Preakness Stakes, a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1 + 3 ⁄ 16 miles (9 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs; 1,911 metres). The race is one leg of the American Triple Crown and is held annually at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland .
The Derby City Distaff Stakes is a Grade I American thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares aged three and older over a distance of seven furlongs on the dirt held annually in early May on the Kentucky Derby day meeting at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky during the spring meeting. The current purse is US$1,000,000.
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In the first race, the horse Vinaigrette won the then 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) mile race in a time of 2: 39 + 3 ⁄ 4, winning a purse of $1,175. Since that race, the Kentucky Oaks has been held each year. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kentucky Oaks was rescheduled from May 1 to September 4. [4]
In 2017 the race was run once in February, and then again on December 26 (opening day of the Santa Anita winter-spring meet) to serve as a prep race for the Pegasus World Cup. [ 2 ] In November 2024 Santa Anita renamed the race in honor of Hall of Fame jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. , who won the San Antonio five times over three decades.
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