PIMLICO RACE COURSE

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! style="font-size:110%;text-align:center;;background:#DACAA5;" colspan="2" | ''Horse Racetrack''
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! colspan="2" style="font-size:125%;text-align:center;"| Pimlico Race Course
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| 'Location'
| Baltimore, Maryland
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| 'Owned by'
| Magna Entertainment Corp.
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'Year opened'
1870
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| 'Race type'
| Thoroughbred
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'Website'
www.pimlico.com
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! style="background:#DACAA5;" colspan="2" | Principal Races
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| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;width:25em; padding:0px; border:none;" | Preakness Stakes (G1)
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| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;width:25em; padding:0px; border:none;" | Dixie Stakes (G2)
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| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;width:25em; padding:0px; border:none;" | Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (G2)
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'Pimlico Race Course' is a horse racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland, most famous for hosting the Preakness Stakes.
Pimlico officially opened in the fall of 1870, with the colt Preakness winning the first running of the Dinner Party Stakes. Three years later the horse would have the 1873 Preakness Stakes named in his honor. The track is also noted as the home for the match race in which Seabiscuit beat War Admiral in the second Pimlico Special, on November 1, 1938, before a crowd of 43,000. It is currently owned by Magna Entertainment Corp.
The Preakness Stakes and the Pimlico Special are run at a distance of 1 3/16 miles. The Pimlico track record for that distance is held by Farma Way, who set it while winning the Pimlico Special in 1991.

Contents

Physical attributes

Racing

Non-Racing Events

External links

Physical attributes

The track has a one-mile dirt oval and a seven furlong turf oval. There is stabling for about 1,000 horses, and the attendance capacity, including the infield, is over 120,000.

Racing

The following graded stakes are run at Pimlico:

★ Grade 1 Pimlico Special ''not carded in 2007''

★ Grade 1 Preakness Stakes

★ Grade 2 Dixie Stakes

★ Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes

★ Grade 3 Adena Stallions' Miss Preakness Stakes

★ Grade 3 Gallorette Handicap

★ Grade 3 Hirsch Jacobs Stakes

★ Grade 3 Maryland Breeders' Cup Handicap

★ Grade 3 Pimlico Breeders' Cup Distaff Handicap

★ Grade 3 Safely Kept Breeders' Cup Stakes

★ Grade 3 William Donald Schaefer Handicap

Non-Racing Events

Pimlico Race Course was the only United States site for Virgin Festival 2006. Virgin Festival 2007 is also scheduled to be hosted by Pimlico, as a two-day festival August 4–5.

External links

★ Pimlico Race Course Web Site

★ Pimlico