A three year old colt named "I'll have another" won the 2012 Preakness. This same colt won the Kentucky Derby two weeks previous to that making it a good possible triple crown winner.
The winner of Preakness stakes 2014 was California Chrome.
The winner of the Preakness in 2014 was none other than California Chrome. California Chromes next race is the Belmont Stakes.
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No. He won the Kentucky Derby, but lost in the Preakness and the Belmont.
They are referred to as the Triple Crown. If a horse wins all three races in one year, he is called the Triple Crown winner.
I assume by "this year" you mean 2010. The Preakness will be held on May 15, 2010. It is always held 2 weeks from the date of the Kentucky Derby.
The Kentucky Derby is the first leg of the Triple Crown, a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, The Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes becomes the Triple Crown Winner
The Preakness is the second leg in Americanthoroughbred racing's Triple Crown and almost always attracts the Kentucky Derby winner, some of the other horses that ran in the Derby, and often a few horses that did not start in the Derby. Two years before the Kentucky Derby was run for the first time, Pimlico introduced its new stakes race for three-year-olds, the Preakness, during its first-ever spring race meet in 1873 . Joan Cowin.
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Because the winner of the race gets a blanket of roses, which is very well known and connected with the race. The winner of the Preakness gets a blanket of black-eyed susans (actually yellow daisies with their centers dyed brown, as black-eyed susans are not in season at that point in the year) and the winner of the Belmont gets a blanket of white carnations.
Noun 1. Preakness - an annual race for three-year-old horses; held at Pimlico in Baltimore, Maryland thoroughbred race - a race between thoroughbred horses
Preakness Stakes was created in 1873.