1899_Preakness_Stakes

1899 Preakness Stakes

1899 Preakness Stakes

24th running of the Preakness Stakes

The 1899 Preakness Stakes was the 24th running of the $1,000 added Preakness Stakes, a horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run on May 30, 1899, at the Gravesend Race Track on Coney Island, New York. The mile and a sixteenth race was won by Half Time over runner-up Filigrane. The race was run on a track rated fast in a final time of 1:47 flat that equaled the Gravesend track record for the distance.[1]

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The 1899 Kentucky Derby was run on May 4 and the 1899 Belmont Stakes on May 25, five days before the Preakness.[2][3] For jockey Richard Clawson, the win aboard Half Time was his second in the 1899 Classics having won the Belmont aboard Jean Bereaud in which he had defeated Half Time.[4]

The 1919 Preakness Stakes would mark the first time the race would be recognized as the second leg of a U.S. Triple Crown series.[5]

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  • Winning Breeder: Walter Showalter (KY)

References

  1. [1]
    "Brooklyn Form Chart - Preakness Stakes". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. May 31, 1899. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  2. [2]
    "1899 Kentucky Derby". Churchill Downs Incorporated. May 4, 1899. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  3. [3]
    "1899 Belmont" (PDF). NYRA Belmont Stakes. May 25, 1899. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  4. [4]
    "1899 Belmont" (PDF). NYRA Belmont Stakes. May 25, 1899. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  5. [5]
    Liebman, Bennett (April 24, 2008). "The Rail: The Race for the Triple Crown - Origins of Triple Crown". The New York Times. New York, NY. Retrieved May 9, 2009.
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