The Maryland Sprint Stakes is a Grade III American

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for three-year-olds and older over a distance of six

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s run annually in mid May on

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 () o ...

day at

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History

The inaugural running of the event was on 13 June 1987 as the Maryland Budweiser Breeders' Cup Handicap at

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over a distance of seven furlongs. Between 1987 and 2006, the

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sponsored the event while

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sponsored the event from 1987 to 1995 which reflected in the name of the event. Since its second running, the race has been run on the

undercard at Pimlico racetrack over a distance of six furlongs.2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 55 on March 3, 2007. The race was first awarded graded status by the by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the

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in 1994. The event was changed to the Maryland Sprint Stakes in 2017 when the conditions of the race were modified to be stakes with allowance weight conditions. The event was the lead off leg of the Mid Atlantic Thoroughbred Championships Sprint Dirt Division or MATCh Races, a series of five races in five separate thoroughbred divisions run throughout four Mid-Atlantic States. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States the Preakness Carnival was moved to October and the event was not scheduled.

Records

Speed record: * 6 furlongs – 1:09.07 - Forest Wildcat (1996) Margins: * lengths – Snow Ridge (2002) Most wins: * No horse has won this race more than once. Most wins by a jockey: * 3 -

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(1993, 1998, 1999) * 3 -

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(1994, 2005, 2008) * 3 - Ricardo Santana Jr. (2017, 2018, 2019) Most wins by a trainer: * 4 - D. Wayne Lukas (1995, 1999, 2002, 2012) Most wins by an owner: * 2 -

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(1995, 2002)

Winners

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External sites

Pimlico Race Course official website

References

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History

Records

Winners

See also

External sites

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