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th running of the $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) and Saturday s 146
th Preakness Stakes (G1), the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown.
Preakness Weekend – the richest and most visible on the Maryland racing calendar which this year features 16 stakes, 10 graded, worth $3.25 million in purses over the two-day span – returns to its traditional spot in mid-May after being pushed back to early October 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, the latest in its history.
Black-Eyed Susan Day gets under way at 11:30 a.m. and will have six stakes, four graded, worth $1 million in purses anchored by the prestigious 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-old fillies that has produced seven Hall of Famers and four other divisional champions including one Preakness winner (Nellie Morse, 1924) since first run as the Pimlico Oaks in 1919.