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2025 Preakness Stakes: Latest News, Notes, Videos, History & Key Facts
- Location: Pimlico Race Course
- Inaugural Race: 1873
- Current Distance: 1 & 3/16 miles (9.5 furlongs)
- Track Type: Left-Handed Dirt
- Age Qualification: Three-year-olds
- 2025 Purse: $2 million
- 2025Race Date: May 17th
Preakness Probables, Previews & More
The Preakness is traditionally the second jewel among the Triple Crown of horse racing, taking place in mid May following the Kentucky Derby. Find useful links and contender profiles for the Preakness Stakes below:
- Preakness Stakes Odds
- Preakness Stakes Betting Guide
- Preakness Stakes Contenders
- Preakness Stakes Trivia
Preakness Stakes Weather Forecast
Preakness Stakes Entries, Odds & Results
| PROGRAM NUMBER | HORSE | JOCKEY / TRAINER | ODDS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goal Oriented | Flavien Prat / Bob Baffert | 6-1 |
| 2 | Journalism | Umberto Rispoli/ Michael McCarthy | 8-5 |
| 3 | American Promise | Nik Juarez / D. Wayne Lukas | 15-1 |
| 4 | Heart Of Honor | Saffie Osborne / Jamie Osborne | 12-1 |
| 5 | Pay Billy | Raul Mena / Michael Gorham | 20-1 |
| 6 | River Thames | Irad Ortiz, Jr. / Todd Pletcher | 9-2 |
| 7 | Sandman | John Velazquez / Mark Casse | 4-1 |
| 8 | Clever Again | Jose Ortiz / Steve Asmussen | 5-1 |
| 9 | Gosger | Luis Saez / Brendan Walsh | 20-1 |
Preakness Stakes Video Replays
Watch Past Preakness Stakes Races
Video of the 2020 Preakness Stakes
Video of the 2019 Preakness Stakes
Video of the 2018 Preakness Stakes
Watch as Justify prevails over Good Magic following a wire-to-wire battle to capture the 2nd leg of the 2018 Triple Crown at Pimilico Race Course in Maryland.
Video of the 2017 Preakness Stakes
Watch the 2017 Preakness Stakes, as Kentucky Derby champion Always Dreaming battled with Classic Empire for the majority of the race, before Cloud Computing pulled ahead for an upset win.
Video of the 2016 Preakness Stakes
Check out footage of the 2016 Preakness Stakes, as jockey Kent Desormeaux notches sought revenge with Exaggerator, finally getting the wet track he loved!
The Preakness Stakes – Race Records
Find notable historical records for the Preakness Stakes below:
Fastest Time
1.53.00
Secretariat- 1973
Most Wins by a Jockey
6
Eddie Arcaro (1941, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1957)
Most Wins by a Trainer
7
R. Wyndham Walden (1875, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1888)
Bob Baffert (1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2010, 2015, 2018)
Most Wins by an Owner
7
Calumet Farm (1941, 1944, 1947, 1948, 1956, 1958, 1968, 2013)
Biggest Winning Margin
11 1/2 lengths
Smarty Jones (2004)
A Brief History of the Preakness Stakes
The Preakness Stakes, also known as the second leg of the Triple Crown, is one of the most important and attended horse race in the sport’s history. Run every year on the third Saturday in May, the historic race is regularly the second most heavily attended race of year, typically only trailing the Kentucky Derby. In fact, 2016 was a record setting year for the Preakness Stakes, with 135,256 people came to the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore to watch the pulse-pounding race.
The first running of the Preakness Stakes took place all the way back in 1873. Oden Bowie, the former governor of Maryland, named the race after the colt Preakness, who as a major underdog won the Dinner Party Stakes on the day Pimlico opened its doors in 1870. In it's infancy, the race struggled to succeed and moved multiple times in the early years. In 1890 the race moved to Morris Race Course in the Bronx, New York. It failed to run for the following three years. The next race was held in 1894 at Gravesend Race Track on Coney Island, where it ran for a total of fifteen years. In 1909, the Preakness was brought home to Pimlico and it has been run here ever since.Originally run at 1 ½ miles, the race has been run at several different lengths before being set at 1 3/16th miles, where it has stayed since 1925.
Winners of the Preakness Stakes are honored by having their silks painted on the jockey and horse weather vane atop a replica of the Old Clubhouse cupola. Winning jockeys are presented with the famed Woodlawn Vase, and take home a half-sized replica for themselves (the original trophy is stored at the Baltimore Museum of Art). The winning horses are draped in a blanket of replica black-eyed Susans, the state flower of Maryland. The race is forced to use replicas because the race is run a full two months before the flower blooms naturally. Ironically, actual black-eyed Susans have never been used in the race fondly known as “The Run for the Black Eyed Susans"
Notable entries in the Preakness Stakes include past Triple Crown winners like American Pharoah, Secretariat and Affirmed as well as horses like California Chrome, Smarty Jones and Real Quiet. You can bet on the Preakness Stakes legally at TwinSpires.