The Preakness Stakes is an American flat thoroughbred horse race held on the third Saturday in May each year at
Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs 1 ³⁄₁₆ miles on dirt. It is the second jewel of the Triple Crown, held two weeks after the Kentucky Derby and three weeks before the Belmont