Preakness Stakes, an American flat thoroughbred horse race held in Baltimore, Maryland, named for the above horse
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Preakness Range, a range of the Watchung Mountains in northern New Jersey
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Preakness Stables, a former thoroughbred horse racing stable located in the above section
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Preakness, New Jersey, a section of Wayne in Passaic County, New Jersey
The colt Preakness, for whom the Preakness Stakes Thoroughbred horse race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland is named, was owned by Milton H. Sanford's Preakness Stables located at the corner of Valley Road and Preakness Avenue.
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Many consider this race as one of the greatest horse races of all time including Jim McKay of ABC Sports who labeled it "the best race that I have ever witnessed" during the 1995 Preakness telecast.
The neighborhood's boundaries are New Circle Road to the West, Old Paris Pike to the North, and Preakness Drive and Interstate 75 to the East.
Unlike today, the $100,000 added Jersey Derby at Monmouth Park Racetrack was run between the Preakness and the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown.
Although none of those Trial horses won the Preakness, Alydeed, Cherokee Run and Macho Again finished second at Pimlico Race Course and Key to the Mint finished third.
He earned two wins in the American Classic Races, the first coming in 1962 when he rode Greek Money to victory in the Preakness Stakes, A year earlier, he had finished second in the Preakness aboard Globemaster and earned another second place finish in 1968 with King Ranch's Out of the Way.
Seven state-listed endangered plant species call the Preakness Range home, including a globally endangered species, Torrey’s mountain mint (Pycnanthemum torrei).
The Triple Crown — involving the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes — is contested only by three-year-olds who race over distances between 1910 metres (Preakness) and 2400 metres (Belmont).
The perpetual trophy is now on display at The Baltimore Museum of Art under the direction of The Maryland Historical Society and is brought to Pimlico Race Course under guard by Maryland National Guard and Air National Airman in dress uniform for the annual running of the Preakness.
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In 1953, when Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Native Dancer won the trophy and proclaimed, "Due to the historic value of the legendary trophy and Mrs. Vanderbilt preference not to accept responsibility for the vase's safekeeping until the next year's Preakness," that the trophy be permanently kept and protected by the Maryland Jockey Club.