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Pimlico Race Course: Home of the Preakness Stakes

Held on the third Saturday in May of each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, the Preakness Stakes is the middle jewel of racing's Triple Crown and almost always attracts the Kentucky Derby winner.

Historic Pimlico Race Course first opened on Oct. 25, 1870, making it the second-oldest racetrack in the United States. Constructed on 70 acres west of Jones Falls, the Maryland Jockey Club purchased the land for $23,500 and built the racetrack for $25,000. "Pimlico" was a name given to the area in Maryland by English settlers during colonial times, while "Preakness" was the name of the colt who won the first race at the track.

Through its storied years, Pimlico has played host to numerous racing icons such as Man o' War, Sir Barton, Citation, Secretariat and Cigar. It is also where Seabiscuit, a small American Thoroughbred, won the hearts of millions of racing fans on November 1, 1937 by beating War Admiral, a fellow American Thoroughbred who a year earlier had won the Triple Crown.

Now a national treasure, Pimlico has earned its place, surviving small and major wars, recessions, depressions, fires, storms and other disasters. Many of the track's earliest traditions continue to take place at the track's infield (Corporate Village at Preakness), where over 5,000 people representing major corporations in the region gather in a modern version of yesteryear's "garden party." Over 60,000 guests crowd additional areas of the infield to celebrate Preakness Day, when the second of the Triple Crown's three races is run.

In 2006, Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro suffered a fall in the first hundred yards of the Preakness Stakes. After months of treatment at the New Bolton Center of the University of Pennsylvania, he was euthanized on January 29, 2007. To honor this brave horse, the 2007 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course featured the debut of the Barbaro Stakes, in place of the Sir Barton Stakes.

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