Preakness Stakes Betting 

Where is Preakness Stakes?  Pimlico Race Course
When is Preakness Stakes?   May 17, 2008

The 133rd running of the $1,000,000 Preakness Stakes (Grade I), is set for Saturday, May 17, 2008 at the historic track.

Where can I bet on the Preakness Stakes?

Well, if you want a FREE BET on the Preakness Stakes, then you have found the right place!  All Horse Racing offers a free bet on all the Triple Crown Races.  Did you know tht on May 23, 1873 the first edition of the Preakness took place? Two years before the inaugural Kentucky Derby, the folks at Pimlico were busy working on a new three-year old stakes race of their own. Pimlico, which since its opening in 1870 had conducted all of its racing in the fall, ran its first Spring Meet in the year of 1873, with the initial running of the Preakness held on May 23. The Preakness was founded by then-Maryland governor Oden Bowie. Governor Bowie's term had actually ended in 1872, yet that did not prevent him from naming the then- mile and a half race in honor of the colt who won the Dinner Party Stakes in 1870 on the occasion of Pimlico's opening. At an 1868 Saratoga party hosted by a Milton Sanford, Bowie guaranteed that Maryland would have a track available for a race that was later dubbed the Dinner Party Stakes and had been instantly promoted by Bowie at the party when he offered $15,000 as a purse--no small sum at the time.