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The 2013 Preakness Stakes was the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race. The race was held on May 18, 2013, and was televised on NBC. [1] The race was won by Oxbow. [2] The post time of the race was 6:18 p.m. EDT. The race was the 12th race on a card of 13 races.
According to live odds on the Kentucky Derby website, more than $4.7 million was wagered on Orb of the $36.6 million gambled on the race, making the horse a 5:1 favorite as betting closed. [ 11 ] Just minutes before, Orb pulled even with Revolutionary as a 6:1 favorite even though more than $4 million was bet on Revolutionary and approximately ...
Four weeks later, on February 23, Orb was moved up in class to contest the Grade II Fountain of Youth Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Gulfstream Park. Ridden by John R. Velazquez, he won the race by half a length, defeating the odds-on favorite Violence. [9] On March 30, Orb started as the 29/10 second favorite for the Grade I Florida Derby. He was ...
The 2013 Road to the Kentucky Derby / ˈ d ɜːr b i / was based on a points system that replaced the previous system which consisted of about 185 graded stakes races worldwide. The series is divided into two phases, the Kentucky Derby Prep Season and the Kentucky Derby Championship Series. [1]
The 2013 Belmont Stakes was the 145th running of the Belmont Stakes, the third jewel in the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.The race was held on June 8, 2013. [1] For the third consecutive year, the race was run without the Triple Crown being at stake as 2013 Kentucky Derby winner Orb was defeated in the 2013 Preakness Stakes by Oxbow.
Oxbow is a dark bay horse, [2] marked with an irregularly shaped white star on his forehead and white on his lower lip. [3] He is 16 hands (64 inches, 163 cm) tall. [4] Oxbow was bred by Richard Santulli's New Jersey–based Colts Neck Stables, [5] [6] [7] and foaled in Kentucky at Burleson Farms. [8]
Don't rely on bloviating pundits to tell you who'll prevail on Hollywood's big night. The Huffington Post crunched the stats on every Oscar nominee of the past 30 years to produce a scientific metric for predicting the winners at the 2013 Academy Awards.
Globus cruciger, an orb-and-cross symbol of Christian authority Sovereign's Orb, a Crown Jewel of the United Kingdom; The trademarked symbol printed on genuine Harris Tweed; O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base, a 2002 computer game; Orb web, a type of spider web; Orb (horse), the winner of the 2013 Kentucky Derby; Orb (optics), an optical artifact ...