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Click on the sort symbol at the top of the columns to sort on a particular field. Updates and changes for the current 2025 and previous 2024 racing season are noted. Due to the redevelopment plans at Belmont Park the fall meeting in 2024 and all events in 2025 are moved either to Aqueduct Racetrack or Saratoga Racetrack. [6]
Nine 3-year-olds were entered for the 138th Preakness Stakes. The post position draw was held at the International Pavilion in the Pimlico Infield at 6 p.m. on May 15, 2013, and were broadcast live on Horse Racing TV using a blind draw. [8] After the draw Orb was installed as the even money favorite, securing the rail. [9]
The 2020 Preakness Stakes was the 145th Preakness Stakes, a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1 + 3 ⁄ 16 miles (1.9 km). The race is one leg of the American Triple Crown and is held annually at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.
Other tracks offer Quarter Horse racing and Standardbred horse racing, or combinations of these three types of racing surfaces. Racing with other breeds, such as Arabian horse racing, is found on a limited basis. American Thoroughbred races are run at a wide variety of distances, most commonly from 5 to 12 furlongs (0.63 to 1.50 mi; 1.0 to 2.4 km).
The following year the track renamed the event in honor of Risen Star to the Risen Star Stakes. In 1991 the distance of the event was increased to 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles [3] and in 2002 the American Graded Stakes Committee upgraded the race to Grade III. [3] The event was upgraded once more in 2010 to Grade II. [4]
The track hosts Thoroughbred flat racing. It is one of two horse racing venues currently active in Illinois, and the only one outside the Chicago, Illinois metro area. The track also featured Standardbred harness racing, but discontinued it in 1999. [1] View of the spectator stands at Fairmount Park Horse Race Track in Collinsville, Illinois
The rules of racing in Kentucky provide for the disqualification of a horse if it shifts its position in a manner that impedes another horse, costing the other horse a better placing in the race. Although Country House was not materially harmed by Maximum Security's swerve on the far turn, at least three other horses — War of Will, Long Range ...
However, the former Hollywood Park Media Guide management organization [3] and the current Santa Anita management consider the event to have no connection. In 1993 the race was renamed to the Affirmed Handicap in honor of the 1978 U.S. Triple Crown champion, Affirmed. [2] In 1995 the distance of the event was decreased to 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles. [2]