Procedure: The present worth of each system was taken using the installation cost per linear foot. Added to that was the remove and dispose cost for concrete (with the interest calculated over the. expected useful life of the curbing) or the remove, stockpile and reset cost of the granite, also per. linear foot.
The numbers never change, and the variable hurdles are always the same. Kentucky Derby length - 1 1/4 mile dirt track at Churchill Downs. --->>> 10 furlongs. Preakness Stakes length - 1 3/16 dirt track at Pimlico Race Course.
It is the second jewel of the Triple Crown, held two weeks after the Kentucky Derby and three weeks before the Belmont Stakes. First run in 1873, the Preakness Stakes was named by a former Maryland governor after a winning colt at Pimlico. The race has been termed The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans because a blanket of yellow flowers altered to resemble Maryland's state flower is placed around the winner's neck.