The 2014 Preakness Stakes was the 139th running of the Preakness Stakes. The race was scheduled to start
at 6:18 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on May 17, 2014 at Pimlico Race Course and was run as the twelfth race on a racecard with thirteen races. The race was won by California Chrome, giving him a chance to win the Triple Crown at Belmont. It is the thirty-fourth time a horse has won the first two legs of the Triple Crown. The Maryland Jockey Club reported a track record total attendance of 123,469, the second highest attendance for American thoroughbred racing events in North America during 2014.
Field of the 2014 Preakness Stakes as they first pass the stands. Pablo Del Monte is in front, Winner California Chrome is horse number 3.
The Preakness Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race held annually on Armed Forces Day, the third Saturday in May at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. The Preakness Stakes is a Grade I race run over a distance of 1+3⁄16 miles on dirt. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds (57 kg); fillies 121 pounds (55 kg). It is the second jewel of the Triple Crown, held two weeks after the Kentucky Derby and three weeks before the Belmont Stakes.
"The Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown" "The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans"
Sir Barton, winner in 1919
The weather vane at Pimlico is painted with the winner's colors (pictured: colors of 2021 winner Rombauer)