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The History Of The Preakness Stakes

Horse Betting – Tradition Doesn’t Take a Back Seat at Preakness

Maryland’s chief executive and several friends visited Saratoga in 1868 several years after America’s oldest track opened. Gov. Oden Bowie and other prominent racing figures attended a dinner party where they pledged to build a track in their state if a special race for 3-year-old colts and fillies was run in two years.