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SUMMARY:Preakness Stakes 2027 - Baltimore\, MD
DESCRIPTION:For a hundred and fifty-one years the middle jewel of the Triple Crown has been run on a Saturday. In 2027 it will not be\, and the reason is the most interesting thing in American racing right now.\n\nThe 152nd Preakness Stakes goes to post at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Sunday\, May 23\, 2027 — eight days after the traditional third Saturday in May\, and the first time any Triple Crown race has ever been run on a Sunday. The move is a deliberate concession to how horses are actually trained now: two weeks between the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness is brutal on a Derby winner\, and the middle leg has spent years watching the best three-year-olds skip it. An extra week is an attempt to make the Triple Crown mean what it used to.\n\nWhat Pimlico is\, in person\, is old. It does not have the manicured Southern theatre of Churchill Downs and it has never pretended to. It sits in a Baltimore residential neighborhood\, the paint is tired\, and the infield on Preakness day is a great democratic mess of people who came to be there rather than to be seen. That is the appeal\, and people who prefer the Preakness to the Derby will tell you so without being asked.\n\nThe traditions are unusually good. The winning owner is presented the Woodlawn Vase\, a piece of Tiffany silver that lives under guard at the Baltimore Museum of Art and travels to the track for the ceremony before going straight back — the owner keeps a half-size replica instead. And the moment the result is official\, a painter climbs the replica clubhouse cupola in the infield and repaints the horse-and-rider weathervane in the winning stable's silks\, where it stays for exactly one year. The practice dates to 1909\, after lightning took down the original arrow-shaped vane.\n\nWho it is for: anyone who would rather watch a sport in a building that has not been renovated into an experience. Be warned that 2027 catches Pimlico mid-surgery. A five-hundred-million-dollar rebuild is not scheduled to finish until ahead of the 2028 race\, the grandstand will not be ready in May\, and temporary seating and hospitality will stand in — which is also why the 2026 running happened at Laurel Park instead. A post time for the feature has not been announced\; the card runs most of the day and the Preakness is the late race.\n\nOne week a year\, a worn-out track in northwest Baltimore holds the only thing standing between a horse and history. Most people watch it on television and still remember where they were.\n\nSunday\, May 23\, 2027. Pimlico Race Course\, 5201 Park Heights Ave\, Baltimore. Tickets through the track.
LOCATION:Pimlico Race Course\, 5201 Park Heights Ave\, Baltimore\, MD 21215
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