149th Preakness Stakes Betting Online
The 149th running of the Preakness Stakes will take place on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. The Preakness Stakes is the second race in horse racing’s Triple Crown, following the Kentucky Derby which is held on the first Saturday in May and three weeks before the Belmont Stakes in early June. The Preakness Stakes almost always has added excitement because the Kentucky Derby winner will be trying to keep his Triple Crown hopes alive. In the last five years, all of the Kentucky Derby winners failed to win the Preakness. One of the main reasons for that happening is that all five Derby winners went off as longshots. It is tough enough for a horse to win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, and even tougher when the horse wasn’t even expected to win the Derby. Early contenders to win the 2024 Preakness Stakes are those horses considered contenders to win the 2024 Kentucky Derby. They are Fierceness, Sierra Leone, Dornoch, Forever Young and Catching Freedom.
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2024 Preakness Stakes At a Glance
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2024
Location: Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, MD
Race Distance: 1 3/16 Miles
Record: 1:53 (Secretariat, 1973)
Purse: $2 million
Qualification: Three-year-old thoroughbreds
Preakness Stakes Winners (2000)
| YEAR |
WINNER |
JOCKEY |
TRAINER |
TIME |
| 2023 |
National Treasure |
John Velazquez |
Bob Baffert |
1:55.12 |
| 2022 |
Early Voting |
José Ortiz |
Chad Brown |
1:54.54 |
| 2021 |
Rombauer |
Flavien Prat |
Michael W. McCarthy |
1:53.62 |
| 2020 |
Swiss Skydiver |
Robbie Albarado |
Kenneth G. McPeek |
1:53.28 |
| 2019 |
War of Will |
Tyler Gaffalione |
Mark Casse |
1:54.34 |
| 2018 |
Justify |
Mike Smith |
Bob Baffert |
1:55.93 |
| 2017 |
Cloud Computing |
Javier Castellano |
Chad C. Brown |
1:55.98 |
| 2016 |
Exaggerator |
Kent Desormeaux |
Keith Desormeaux |
1:58.31 |
| 2015 |
American Pharoah |
Victor Espinoza |
Bob Baffert |
1:58.46 |
| 2014 |
California Chrome |
Victor Espinoza |
Art Sherman |
1:54.84 |
| 2013 |
Oxbow |
Gary Stevens |
D. Wayne Lukas |
1:57.54 |
| 2012 |
I'll Have Another |
Mario Gutierrez |
Doug O'Neill |
1:55.94 |
| 2011 |
Shackleford |
Jesus Castanon |
Dale Romans |
1:56.47 |
| 2010 |
Lookin At Lucky |
Martin Garcia |
Bob Baffert |
1:55.47 |
| 2009 |
Rachel Alexandra |
Calvin Borel |
Steve Asmussen |
1:55.08 |
| 2008 |
Big Brown |
Kent Desormeaux |
Rick Dutrow |
1:54.86 |
| 2007 |
Curlin |
Roberto Albarado Jr. |
Steve Asmussen |
1:53.46 |
| 2006 |
Bernardini |
Javier Castellano |
Thomas Albertrani |
1:54.65 |
| 2005 |
Afleet Alex |
Jeremy Rose |
Timothy F. Ritchey |
1:55.04 |
| 2004 |
Smarty Jones |
Stewart Elliott |
John Servis |
1:55.59 |
| 2003 |
Funny Cide |
Jose Santos |
Barclay Tagg |
1:55.61 |
| 2002 |
War Emblem |
Victor Espinoza |
Bob Baffert |
1:56.40 |
| 2001 |
Point Given |
Gary Stevens |
Bob Baffert |
1:55.40 |
| 2000 |
Red Bullet |
Jerry Bailey |
Joe Orseno |
1:56.00 |
Fastest Times
| YEAR |
HORSE |
TIME |
| 1973 |
Secretariat |
1:53.00 |
| 2020 |
Swiss Skydiver |
1:53.28 |
| 1996 |
Louis Quatorze |
1:53.40 |
| 1985 |
Tank's Prospect |
1:53.40 |
| 2007 |
Curlin |
1:53.46 |
| 1990 |
Summer Squall |
1:53.60 |
The great Secretariat still reigns supreme at the Preakness Stakes, but there have been times where other horses have challenged his record time of 1:53.00. Four horses have finished within a half-second, and filly Swiss Skydiver came the closest yet to breaking Secretariat’s record at this track.
Swiss Skydiver was tied for the third favorite at post time, but she bested Authentic at the wire by a head to win the 2020 Preakness Stakes. She was the first filly to win The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans since Rachel Alexandra in 2009.
Longest Odds To Win
| YEAR |
HORSE |
TIME |
| 1975 |
Master Derby |
23.40 |
| 1925 |
Coventry |
21.80 |
| 1926 |
Display |
19.35 |
| 2013 |
Oxbow |
15.00 |
| 1900 |
Hindus |
15.00 |
| 1909 |
Effendi |
15.00 |
It's hard to believe that there has never been a horse win the Preakness Stakes with a price of even 25 to 1 on his head. Master Derby is the longest shot to ever win the second leg of the Triple Crown at 23.40. Unlike the other legs of the Triple Crown where horses go off the board at 50 to 1 all the time and occasionally win, the Preakness Stakes rarely sees horses go off at those lofty odds. Oxbow, who was 15 to 1 in 2013, is largely considered to have pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Preakness Stakes history. Cloud Computing represented one of the bigger upsets in recent history as well at a price of 13.40 to win the 2017 Preakness Stakes.
Most Jockey Wins
| JOCKEY |
WINS |
YEARS WON |
| Eddie Arcaro |
6 |
1941, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1957 |
| Pat Day |
5 |
1985, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996 |
| George Barbee |
3 |
1873, 1876, 1883 |
| Bill Hartack |
3 |
1956, 1964, 1969 |
| Lloyd Hughes |
3 |
1875, 1879, 1880 |
| Gary Stevens |
3 |
1997, 2001, 2013 |
| Victor Espinoza |
3 |
2002, 2014, 2015 |
| Kent Desormeaux |
3 |
1998, 2002, 2016 |
Most of the jockeys you see on this list won the Preakness Stakes several times back in the day. However, it isn't out of the ordinary to see an active jockey go on a bit of a run. The most famous recent run came from Victor Espinoza, who won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in consecutive years with California Chrome and American Pharoah respectively.
Kent Desormeaux won his third Preakness Stakes aboard Exaggerator in 2016, giving him a span of 18 years from his first Preakness victory until his third.
The record of six Preakness Stakes victories held by Eddie Arcaro figures to stand up for quite some time in the future though, as no active jockey has more than three career Preakness Stakes wins.
Most Trainer Wins
| TRAINER |
WINS |
YEARS WON |
| Bob Baffert |
8 |
1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2010, 2015, 2018, 2023 |
| R. Wyndham Walden |
7 |
1875, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1888 |
| D. Wayne Lukas |
6 |
1980, 1985, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2013 |
| Thomas J. Healey |
5 |
1901, 1922, 1923, 1926, 1929 |
| Jim Fitzsimmons |
4 |
1930, 1935, 1955, 1957 |
| Jimmy Jones |
4 |
1947, 1948, 1956, 1958 |
Bob Baffert holds the record for Preakness Stakes victories with eight. The record of seven by Walden stood for 120 years, but Baffert tied the record in 2018 with Justify’s win and he broke the record with National Treasure winning in 2023. D. Wayne Lukas has six Preakness Stakes wins. It's plausible for him to get his seventh as well, though it's been a while since he's trained a champion three-year old pony, and his options are incredibly limited at the end of his career.
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