Background - Preakness Stakes - May 05, 02:36:59 AM 2005

Pimlico Race Course first opened in 1870, organized and built quickly under the direction of Maryland Governor Oden Bowie, to honor the first great horse to race there, Preakness, Governor Bowie proposed a stakes race for three-year-olds at 1-1/2 miles. T...
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