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1899 Preakness Stakes
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24th running of the Preakness Stakes
August 2023
24th Preakness Stakes Preakness Stakes Gravesend Race Track, Coney Island, New YorkUnited States 1899 5 30 Half Time 1:47.00 Richard Clawson Frank McCabe Philip J. Dwyer Dirt Fast 1898 1900
The 1899 Preakness Stakes was the 24th running of the $1,000 added Preakness Stakes, a horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run on May 30, 1899, at the Gravesend Race Track on Coney Island, New York. The mile and a sixteenth race was won by Half Time over runner-up Filigrane. The race was run on a track rated fast in a final time of 1:47 flat that equaled the Gravesend track record for the distance.https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1890s/drf1899053101/drf1899053101_1_4 Brooklyn Form Chart - Preakness Stakes Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives 1899-05-31 2018-11-14
The 1899 Kentucky Derby was run on May 4 and the 1899 Belmont Stakes on May 25, five days before the Preakness.https://www.kentuckyderby.com/history/year/1899 1899 Kentucky Derby Churchill Downs Incorporated 1899-05-04 2018-11-14https://www.belmontstakes.com/uploads/historical_races/history_pdf_1899.pdf 1899 Belmont NYRA Belmont Stakes 1899-05-25 2018-11-14 For jockey Richard Clawson, the win aboard Half Time was his second in the 1899 Classics having won the Belmont aboard Jean Bereaud in which he had defeated Half Time.https://www.belmontstakes.com/uploads/historical_races/history_pdf_1899.pdf 1899 Belmont NYRA Belmont Stakes 1899-05-25 2018-11-14
The 1919 Preakness Stakes would mark the first time the race would be recognized as the second leg of a U.S. Triple Crown series.Bennett Liebman The Rail: The Race for the Triple Crown - Origins of Triple Crown http://therail.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/origins-of-triple-crown/ The New York Times New York, NY April 24, 2008 May 9, 2009
Finished Post Horse Jockey Trainer Owner Time / behind 1 1 Half Time Richard Clawson Frank McCabe Philip J. Dwyer 1:47.00 2 2 Filigrane Fred Littlefield R. Wyndham Walden A. H. & D. H. Morris 3/4 3 3 Lackland Henry Spencer A. Jack Joyner August Belmont Jr. 5
Winning Breeder: Walter Showalter (KY)
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http://www.preakness.com/
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