Photo: Hollywood Park
A baseball cap saluting Kentucky
Derby winner I’ll Have Another will be given away Preakness Stakes Day
(Saturday, May 19) at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Post time will be 11 a.m. Track
gates at Betfair Hollywood Park will open at 8 a.m. and the first simulcast
race from Pimlico will be run at 8:30 a.m.
The 137th Preakness will
be run between the eighth and ninth races at Betfair Hollywood Park. Scheduled
post time for the middle jewel of the Triple Crown is 3:18 p.m. PDT.
The black cap, which features an
insignia of the purple and white silks of J. Paul Reddam, the owner of I’ll
Have Another and the sponsor of Betfair Hollywood Park’s CashCall Futurity,
over the name of the Kentucky Derby winner, will be available one per paid
admission while supplies last.
Betfair Hollywood Park will offer
two graded stakes May 19 – the $150,000 Marjorie L. Everett Handicap – which
was formerly known as the Milady - - and the $100,000 Railbird Stakes.
A Grade II at 1 1/16 miles over
Cushion Track, the Everett is for older fillies and mares. The Railbird is a
Grade III at seven furlongs for 3-year-old fillies.
Trained by Doug O’Neill and ridden
by Mario Gutierrez, I’ll Have Another, who was stabled at Betfair Hollywood
Park prior to his 15-1 surprise at Churchill Downs and broke his maiden here
last July 3, will try to become the first horse to win both the Derby and
Preakness since Big Brown in 2008.