Richard Hughes (jockey) a change in the rules regarding horse welfare. On 13 October 2011, it was announced that Hughes was giving up his racing licence and quitting the sport out of protest at the ban. Hughes did not follow up on this threat and on 15 October 2012 he equaled Frankie Dettori's record of winning seven races in a single meeting by winning seven out of eight races at Windsor Racecourse. The following month, he claimed his first British flat racing Champion Jockey title with 172 winners over the season. In May 2013, after a long wait, he won his first British
Maryland Jockey Club track was the Dinner Party Stakes and it was won by Preakness, a son of Lexington on October 27, 1870. Stakes races also run that year were the "Breakfast Stakes" and the "Bowie Stakes," both were won by Glenelg. In 1873, Pimlico staged the first Preakness Stakes a classic event for three-year-olds. There were seven starters from 21 subscribers to pre-liminary races. Survivor won the inaugural Preakness Stakes which was named for the winner of the first Dinner Party Stakes. In 1876, the Maryland Jockey Club presented nine stakes races (then a record), which attracted 312 nominations. The signature event