The 1899 Preakness Stakes was the 24th running of the $1,000 added

Preakness Stakes The Preakness Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race held on Armed Forces Day which is also the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs () on ...

, a horse race for three-year-old

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s run on May 30, 1899 at the

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. The mile and a sixteenth race was won by

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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. The 1899 Kentucky Derby was run on May 4 and the 1899 Belmont Stakes on May 25, five days before the Preakness. For jockey

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, the win aboard Half Time was his second in the 1899 Classics having won the Belmont aboard

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in which he had defeated Half Time. 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. * Winning Breeder: Walter Showalter ( KY)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Preakness Stakes 1899 1899 Gravesend Race Track 1899 in horse racing 1899 in American sports 1899 in sports in New York City Horse races in New York City