Eleven Fun Facts for the Preakness Stakes

The Preakness Stakes is on May 20 at Pimlico Race Course. Always Dreaming is the favorite. The Preaks is older than the Kentucky Derby. It was first run in 1873. Preakers have won the race 72 times. Five Preaker's have been named Horse of the Year. American Pharoah completed the Triple Crown at Belmont three weeks later. The purse of first Preaking was $2,050. In 1890 the Preakes was held at Morris Park in the Bronx, N.Y. From 1894 to 1908 it was at Gravesend Race Track on Coney Island, NY.