Preakness Stakes History & Wagering
As the winner of the Kentucky Derby, Super Saver is only two victories away from becoming a Triple Crown champion, although this is a feat rarely accomplished. If Super Saver can win “The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans,” he will be one step closer.
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The interesting history of the Preakness Stakes began a few months before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. Maryland had the first run for the Woodlawn Vase, what is now the trophy for the Preakness Stakes.
While the first Preakness Stakes was run in 1873 (won by 11-1 long shot, Survivor), the Woodlawn Vase was not given to the winner of the Preakness until Kalitan won in 1917; it has been awarded to the winner ever since.
The winner of the inaugural race was Milton Stanford’s Preakness (out of a seven-horse field). By 1873 Pimlico introduced another stakes race for three-year-olds. The Governor of Baltimore, Maryland decided to name the race after the first winner at Pimlico. The Preakness Stakes was born.
Despite the importance of the Preakness Stakes to Pimlico, the Preakness has not always been run at Pimlico. In 1889 the racing industry changed and the Preakness Stakes moved to Morris Park in Bronx, NY. It then took three years off and was moved to Gravesend in Brooklyn, New York in 1894 until returning to Pimlico in 1909.
It was not until after the end of World War I that the Preakness would host it’s first eventual Triple Crown winner – Sir Barton, who won the then mile and an eighth race.
Preakness Stakes Past Champions
| Year | Horse Name | Jockey |
| 2010 | Lookin At Lucky | Martin Garcia |
| 2009 | Rachel Alexandrea | Calvin Borel |
| 2008 | Big Brown | K. Desormeaux |
| 2007 | Curlin | R. Albarado |
| 2006 | Bernardini | J. Castellano |
| 2005 | Afleet Alex | Jeremy Rose |
| 2004 | Smarty Jones | S. Elliott |
| 2003 | Funny Cide | J. Santos |
| 2002 | War Emblem | V. Espinoza |
| 2001 | Point Given | G. Stevens |
| 2000 | Red Bullet | J. Bailey |
| 1999 | Charismatic | C. Antley |
| 1998 | Real Quiet | K. Desormeaux |
| 1997 | Silver Charm | G. Stevens |
| 1996 | Louis Quatorze | P. Day |
| 1995 | Timber Country | P. Day |
| 1994 | Tabasco Cat | P. Day |
| 1993 | Prairie Bayou | M. Smith |
| 1992 | Pine Bluff | C. McCarron |
| 1991 | Hansel | J. Bailey |
| 1990 | Summer Squall | P. Day |
| 1989 | Sunday Silence | P. Valenzuela |
| 1988 | Risen Star | E. Delahoussaye |
| 1987 | Alysheba | C. McCarron |
| 1986 | Snow Chief | A. Solis |
| 1985 | Tank’s Prospect | P. Day |
| 1984 | Gate Dancer | A. Cordero, Jr. |
| 1983 | Deputed Testamony | D. Miller, Jr. |
| 1982 | Aloma’s Ruler | J. Kaenel |
| 1981 | Pleasant Colony | J. Velasquez |
| 1980 | Codex | A. Cordero, Jr. |
| 1979 | Spectacular Bid | R. Franklin |
| 1978 | Affirmed (T) | S. Cauthen |
| 1977 | Seattle Slew (T) | J. Cruguet |
| 1976 | Elocutionist | J. Lively |
| 1975 | Master Derby | D. McHargue |
| 1974 | Little Current | M. Rivera |
| 1973 | Secretariat (T) | R. Turcotte |
| 1972 | Bee Bee Bee | E. Nelson |
| 1971 | Canonero II | G. Avila |
| 1970 | Personality | E. Belmonte |
| 1969 | Majestic Prince | W. Hartack |
| 1968 | Forward Pass | I. Valenzuela |
| 1967 | Damascus | W. Shoemaker |
| 1966 | Kauai King | D. Brumfield |
| 1965 | Tom Rolfe | R. Turcotte |
| 1964 | Northern Dancer | W. Hartack |
| 1963 | Candy Spots | W. Shoemaker |
| 1962 | Greek Money | J. Rotz |
| 1961 | Carry Back | J. Sellers |
| 1960 | Bally Ache | R. Ussery |
| 1959 | Royal Orbit | W. Harmatz |
| 1958 | Tim Tam | I. Valenzuela |
| 1957 | Bold Ruler | E. Arcaro |
| 1956 | Fabius | W. Hartack |
| 1955 | Nashua | E. Arcaro |
| 1954 | Hasty Road | J. Adams |
| 1953 | Native Dancer | E. Guerin |
| 1952 | Blue Man | C. McCreary |
| 1951 | Bold | E. Arcaro |
| 1950 | Hill Prince | E. Arcaro |
| 1949 | Capot | T. Atkinson |
| 1948 | Citation (T) | E. Arcaro |
| 1947 | Faultless | D. Dodson |
| 1946 | Assault (T) | W. Mehrtens |
| 1945 | Polynesian | W. Wright |
| 1944 | Pensive | C. McCreary |
| 1943 | Count Fleet (T) | J. Longden |
| 1942 | Alsab (T) | B. James |
| 1941 | Whirlaway | E. Arcaro |
| 1940 | Bimelech | F. Smith |
| 1939 | Challedon | G. Seabo |
| 1938 | Dauber | M. Peters |
| 1937 | War Admiral (T) | C. Kurtsinger |
| 1936 | Bold Venture | G. Woolf |
| 1935 | Omaha | W. Saunders |
| 1934 | High Quest | R. Jones |
| 1933 | Head Play | C. Kurtsinger |
| 1932 | Burgoo King | E. James |
| 1931 | Mate | G. Ellis |
| 1930 | Gallant Fox (T) | E. Sande |
| 1929 | Dr. Freeland | L. Schaefer |
| 1928 | Victorian | R. Workman |
| 1927 | Bostonian | A. Abel |
| 1926 | Display | J. Maiben |
| 1925 | Coventry | C. Kummer |
| 1924 | Nellie Morse | J. Merimee |
| 1923 | Vigil | B. Marinelli |
| 1922 | Pillory | L. Morris |
| 1921 | Broomspun | F. Coltiletti |
| 1920 | Man o’ War | C. Kummer |
| 1919 | Sir Barton (T) | J. Loftus |
| 1918 | War Cloud (1st Edition) | J. Loftus |
| 1918 | Jack Hare Jr.(2nd Edition) | C. Peak |
| 1917 | Kalitan | E. Haynes |
| 1916 | Damrosch | I. McAtee |
| 1915 | Rhine Maiden | D. Hoffman |
| 1914 | Holiday | Schuttinger |
| 1913 | Buskin | Butwell |
| 1912 | Col. Holloway | C. Turner |
| 1911 | Watervale | E. Dugan |
| 1910 | Layminster | Estep |
| 1909 | Effendi | W. Doyle |
| 1908 | Royal Tourist | E. Dugan |
| 1907 | Don Enrique | G. Mountain |
| 1906 | Whimsical | W. Miller |
| 1905 | Cairngorm | W. Davis |
| 1904 | Bryn Mawr | Hildebrand |
| 1903 | Flocarline | W. Gannon |
| 1902 | Old England | L. Jackson |
| 1901 | The Parader | Landry |
| 1900 | Hindus | H. Spencer |
| 1899 | Half Time | R. Clawson |
| 1898 | Sly Fox | W. Simms |
| 1897 | Paul Kauvar | Thorpe |
| 1896 | Margrave | H. Griffin |
| 1895 | Belmar | F. Taral |
| 1894 | Assignee | F. Taral |
| 1890 | Montague | W. Martin |
| 1889 | Buddhist | Anderson |
| 1888 | Refund | Littlefield |
| 1887 | Dunboyne | W. Donohue |
| 1886 | The Bard | Fisher |
| 1885 | Tecumseh | J. McLaughlin |
| 1884 | Knight of Ellerslie | Fisher |
| 1883 | Jacobus | G. Barbee |
| 1882 | Vanguard | Costello |
| 1881 | Saunterer | Costello |
| 1880 | Grenada | L. Hughes |
| 1879 | Harold | L. Hughes |
| 1878 | Duke of Magenta | C. Holloway |
| 1877 | Cloverbrook | C. Holloway |
| 1876 | Shirley | G. Barbee |
| 1875 | Tom Ochiltree | L. Hughes |
| 1874 | Culpepper | W. Donohue |
| 1873 | Survivor | G. Barbee |
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