Secretariat worked five furlongs in :57 2/5 at Pimlico Racecourse in preparation for the May 19 Preakness Stakes. He was eased after completing his workout distance, but still ran six furlongs in 1:10.~
1973
Kingman, the only African American-owned horse to win the Derby, did so with jockey
Isaac Murphy in the irons. Kingman was owned and trained by African American Dudley Allen. The win gave jockey Isaac Murphy back-to-back Derby victories and made him the first jockey to win three Derbies.~
1891
The Great Sectional Match, the North versus the South, was run at Union Course in New York. Fashion, representing the North, raced against the South's Peytona in a match race won by Peytona. Three years earlier, Fashion had defeated Boston, who represented the South, in another North-South rivalry.~1845
Louis Schaefer became the first person to have ridden and trained a Preakness Stakes winner after he saddled
Challedon to victory. Schaefer won the 1929 Preakness as a jockey, riding
Dr. Freeland. Schaefer's double was replicated by jockey-turned-trainer
John Longden, who rode
Count Fleet in the 1943 Preakness and trained
Majestic Prince to win the race in 1969.~
1939