1928 Preakness Stakes

53rd running of the Preakness Stakes August 2023 53rd Preakness Stakes Stakes race The Preakness Stakes Pimlico Race CourseBaltimore, Maryland, U.S. 1928 5 11 1+3/16 mi furlong m on Victorian 2:00 1/5 9.35-1 Raymond Workman James G. Rowe Jr. Harry Payne Whitney Fast Dirt 1927 1929 The 1928 Preakness Stakes was the 53rd running of the Preakness. The race took place on Friday, May 11, 1928, eight days before the Kentucky Derby making it the first leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series. A horse race for three-year-old thoroughbreds, it carried a total purse of $71,370. It was run on a track rated fast in a final time of 2:00 1/5. Ridden by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Raymond Workman, Victorian won the race by a nose over runner-up Toro. Nassak, the betting favorite from the powerful Rancocas Stable finished a distant 11th. The fifth-place finisher, Sun Beau, went on to a brilliant racing career and was voted U.S. Champion Older Horse in three straight years culminating with his 1996 induction into the U.S. National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Daily Racing Form May 12, 1928 article titled "Victorian Wins Preakness" Retrieved August 03, 2018Sun Beau at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Retrieved August 15, 2018 No Triple Crown attempt The owners of the Preakness winner chose not to send the colt to Louisville, Kentucky to compete in the May 19th Kentucky Derby. The Daily Racing Form reported that Victorian's owner made a statement by telephone saying the colt had gone through a very tough Preakness and did not do well after the race. Plans called for transporting Victorian to Belmont Park where he would run in the Withers Stakes if his trainer thought the colt was healthy. Daily Racing Form May 15, 1928 article titled "Victorian's Derby Status: Reasons Why Preakness Winner Will Not Be Shipped to Louisville for Famous Race" Retrieved August 03, 2018 Victorian won the Withers Stakes. Daily Racing Form May 21, 1928 article titled "Victorian Triumphs: Preakness Stakes Winner Accounts for Withers Stakes" Retrieved August 03, 2018 Record crowd The Daily Racing Form reported there was a record crowd in attendance on Preakness day which included notables such as Belgium's Prince Ernest and Princess Marguerite de Ligne, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., father of a future President of the United States, the British Ambassador Sir Esmé Howard, Bernard Baruch, George Saportas, and James Wood Colt, among others. Maryland Governor Albert Ritchie presented the Woodlawn Vase to James G. Rowe Jr., the winning trainer who accepted it on behalf of the absent Harry Payne Whitney. Death of scheduled Preakness rider Twenty-five-year-old jockey Ovila Bourassa was scheduled to ride Solace in the 1928 Preakness. The colt, who would finish third, was owned by the Seagram Stables for whom jockey Bourassa had ridden Sir Harry to a second-place finish in the 1927 Preakness Stakes. Three weeks prior to the running of the 1928 Preakness, the young jockey died from a fractured skull after the saddle girth slipped on a horse he was breezing in the early morning hours at Havre de Grace Racetrack in Havre de Grace, Maryland. A champion Canadian jockey, and very popular with his racing fraternity and race fans in the United States, Ovila Bourassa's death received wide coverage in newspapers in both countries. The New York Times wrote that Bourassa "rode winners of many classics" and was "one of the best-known riders in the country".New York Times April 18, 1928 article titled "Jockey Bourassa Dies After Fall" Retrieved July 23, 2018 The New York Daily News called him a "rider of great promise" and someone who was "in the first rank of riders."New York Daily News, April 28, 2018 Retrieved July 20, 2018 In his native Canada, the Calgary Daily Herald said Ovila Bourassa was "one of the outstanding figures in Canadian racing."Calgary Daily Herald – April 18, 1928 Retrieved July 23, 2018 Payout The 51st Preakness Stakes Payout Schedule Program Number Horse Name Win Place Show 7 Victorian $20.70 $10.20 $7.508 Toro - $22.00 $14.203 Solace - - $19.50 The full chart Daily Racing Form Charts Daily Racing Form May 11, 1928 Preakness Stakes results chart Retrieved August 3, 2018 Finish PositionMargin(lengths)Post PositionHorse nameJockeyTrainerOwnerPost Time OddsEarnings1st07VictorianRaymond WorkmanJames G. Rowe Jr.Harry Payne Whitney9.35-1$60,0002ndNO8ToroEddie AmbroseJohn F. SchorrEdward Beale McLean21.70-1$5,0003rd21 23SolaceLeslie PichonWilliam H. BringloeSeagram Stables37.25-1$3,0004th34Strolling PlayerGeorge FieldsRobert A. SmithSalubria Stable4.55-1 †$2,0005thHD6Sun BeauJohn CraigmyleCharles W. CarrollWillis Sharpe Kilmer17.85-16th617PenaloWillie KelsayRobert A. SmithLawrence Waterbury II15.55-1 Ŧ7thHD14TyphoonLouis SchaeferH. Guy BedwellKenton Farm stable21.30-18th41BateauFred StevensScott P. HarlanWalter M. Jeffords, Sr.25.35-19th1 212DistractionDanny McAuliffeGeorge TappenWheatley Stable11.35-110thNK13Don Q.Pete WallsJoseph H. StotlerSagamore Stable61.35-111thNK9NassakLaverne FatorSam HildrethRancocas Stable2.35-112th11 211SortieClarence KummerMax HirschA. Charles Schwartz15.55-1 Ŧ13th115BobashelaHerb FisherS. Miller HendersonAudley Farm Stable4.55-1 †14th11 210Friar's HopeEdgar BarnesJames S. ButlerMrs. J. Simpson Dean143.95-115th116KnapsackSteve O'DonnellWilliam M. GarthSalubria Stable4.55-1 †16th11 22Oh SayAnthony PascumaAlbert B. GordonFair Stable92.6517th1 218Petee-WrackMack GarnerWillie BoothJohn R. Macomber18.6518th85BroomsHarvey ElstonGwyn R. TompkinsBrookmeade Stable18.85 Ŧ coupled and † coupled Winning Breeder: Harry Payne Whitney; (KY) Times: 1/4 mile – 23 2/5; 1/2 mile – 47 2/5; 3/4 mile – 1:13 0/0; mile – 1:38 4/5; 1 3/16 (final) – 2:00 1/5 Track condition: fast References External links http://www.preakness.com/ Montreal La Presse newspaper photo of Ovila Bourassa. Category:1928 in horse racing Category:1928 in American sports Category:1928 in sports in Maryland Category:1920s in Baltimore Category:May 1928 sports events in the United States 1928 Category:Pimlico Race Course