2011 Preakness Stakes 2011 Preakness Stakes The 2011 Preakness Stakes was the 136th running of the Preakness Stakes and was won by Shackleford. The race took place on May 21, 2011, and was televised in the United States on the NBC television network. The post time was EDT ( UTC). The race was the 12th race on a card of 13 races. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 118,356, this is recorded as second highest on the list of American thoroughbred racing top attended events for North America in 2011. The 136th Preakness Stakes Payout Schedule A full field of 14
Preakness Stables plus Preakness Stakes winner, Vanguard, and the champion 2-year-old colt, Tremont. In 1881, the sixty-eight-year-old Milton Sanford sold the Kentucky Preakness Stud to Daniel Swigert who renamed it Elmendorf Farm. Under trainer Edward Feakes, Preakness Stables won the Preakness Stakes twice. Their first victory came in 1890 with Montague and in 1895 with Belmar who also won the Belmont Stakes. Preakness Stables Preakness Stables was a Thoroughbred horse racing stable established by Massachusetts businessman Milton H. Sanford in the Preakness section of Wayne, New Jersey at what today is the corner of Valley Road and Preakness Avenue. Milton Sanford named