Preakness 2025: Pimlico Chapter Ends with Another Sparse Crowd

Pimlico pickings: State selling off pieces of historic racetrack as relics before demolition

Rows of Pimlico grandstand seats are being auctioned off by the state before the old racetrack is torn down to make way for a new complex. (Photo courtesy Department of General Services)By Kate Ryan Maybe you don’t know Secretariat from Seattle Slew, but you do have a chance at owning a piece of horse racing history. After the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes last week, Pimlico, the storied racetrack in Baltimore, was shuttered for good. Th…

Preakness 2025: Pimlico chapter ends with another sparse crowd

Before Journalism sped down the final stretch to earn a narrow victory in the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes, longtime spectators noted the track’s many empty seats and vacant infield plots, which in previous years were active with revellers. While Saturday’s feature race was one to remember, officials who pushed for the planned rebuild of Pimlico Race Course may want to forget the flagging attendance record in recent years at the second …

Preakness attendance on par with recent low turnouts at Pimlico’s final hurrah

Crowds this weekend at the swan song for Pimlico Race Course were on par with the last three years — but less than a third as large as the roughly 190,000 who attended the weekend during a record-setting 2017.

Rispoli Defends His Preakness Ride

After he crossed the wire first aboard Journalism (Curlin) in the GI Preakness Stakes, jockey Umberto Rispoli planned to take a few days off and bask in what was the biggest win of his career. Instead, he has found himself in the middle of an ugly controversy involving his ride and the bumping incident with Flavien Prat, who was aboard 'TDN Rising Star' Goal Oriented (Not This Time). The two banged into each other in upper stretch and impeded th…

Walsh weighs his top 3-year-olds' options after big Preakness weekend

Kentucky-based trainer Brendan Walsh came home without the hardware from Pimlico's major 3-year-old stakes, but with a hefty check, as his barn's consistency through the weekend earned him top placing in the trainer bonus system offered by 1/ST Racing to horsemen in stakes races over Preakness weekend, May 16-17.

What happens after horses wheel back in Preakness?

Never mind wheeling back two weeks after the Kentucky Derby to go in the Preakness Stakes. What about afterward? Journalism, Sandman and Goal Oriented made up three-fourths of the superfecta Saturday in the Preakness after racing only two weeks earlier on Derby day. The landscape beyond that is full of horses who tried both and had limited success afterward when they have stayed on the racetrack.Belmont Stakes 2025: Ed DeRosa’s fair odds. Since …