2014 Preakness Stakes
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"The Second Jewel of the Triple Crown"
"The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans" |
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Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
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| Date | May 17, 2014 |
| Winning horse | California Chrome |
| Jockey | Victor Espinoza |
| Conditions | Fast |
| Surface | Dirt |
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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 attendance was a record: 123,469.
The payout to the winning horses in the 2014 Stakes was US$1,500,000, an increase of half a million dollars from the previous year.
The 2014 Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome was the morning line favorite at 3–5 and drew the number three post position. Only two horses who ran in the Kentucky Derby entered the Preakness, General a Rod and Ride on Curlin, both with new jockeys.
The other entrants included Pablo Del Monte, whose owners opted not to run in the Kentucky Derby after he was made eligible by the scratch of Hoppertunity; Federico Tesio winner Kid Cruz; Illinois Derby winner Dynamic Impact; Bayern, trained by Bob Baffert; Social Inclusion, who ran third in the Wood Memorial and was second favorite on the morning line at 5–1; and the filly Ria Antonia, winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (via disqualification of first-place finisher She's a Tiger) and sixth in the Kentucky Oaks.
The addition of Ria Antonia marked the first time that a female horse, a woman jockey, and a woman trainer had all competed in the Preakness in the same year; Rosie Napravnik rode Bayern, and Kid Cruz was trained by Linda Rice.
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