Baltimore's Historic Pimlico Race Course will be demolished after the 150th Preakness Stakes in May as state leaders move forward with a restoration project. Renderings of the new facility were unveiled Wednesday.

Six of the nine contending horses arrived Monday and Tuesday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore for the 150th Preakness Stakes, the middle jewel of the Triple Crown. With Kentucky Derby-winner Sovereignty out of the picture,

Trainer Michael McCarthy was on hand at Pimlico to greet his Kentucky Derby (G1) runner-up. “I guess he's a complete package,” McCarthy said. “He's got the looks, he's got the ability, wonderful disposition.

Saturday will mark the last time the Preakness Stakes will run at the original Old Hilltop. So, what will the new Pimlico look like?

Mitole registered three wins over the winter and spring at Oaklawn Park before his Chick Lang triumph, and would go on to win four Grade 1 stakes including the Met Mile and Breeders’ Cup Sprint and earn the 2019 Eclipse Award as male sprint champion.

American Promise endured a troubled trip in the Kentucky Derby on the way to a 16th-place finish in a field of 19 horses.

Through 150 years, the race has produced some zany antics, memorable moments and some devastating losses. Here are 10 standout mileposts in Preakness Day history. 2024: Before the big race, a pony on the track bit off the fingertip of a 90-year-old woman as she tried to feed it carrots.

Preakness 150 will be the last time the annual horse race will be held with the existing structures in place before the track is rebuilt on the same site.

The post positions and early odds are available for Saturday’s 150th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, with Journalism as the early favorite.

It was a relatively quiet May 13 morning at a soggy Pimlico Race Course as two of nine starters in the May 17 $2 million Preakness Stakes (G1) jogged around the wet, sealed racetrack.