Rachel Alexandra's star turn in the Blackberry Preakness Stakes (gr. I) drove TV ratings of the race to their highest overnight ratings in five years.
The race portion (6:00-6:45 p.m. ET) earned an overnight rating of 7.9
and an 18 share, a gain of 27 percent over last year's race (6.2/14)
when Big Brown won to take the first two legs of the Triple Crown. The
overnight rating for yesterday's race portion was the highest since
2004 (9.2/20).
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