1928 Preakness Stakes

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53rd Preakness Stakes
The Preakness Stakes
Location Pimlico Race Course
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
DateMay 11, 1928 (1928-05-11)
Distance1+3⁄16 mi (9.5 furlongs; 1,900 m)
Winning horse Victorian
Winning time2:00 1/5
Final odds9.35-1
Jockey Raymond Workman
Trainer James G. Rowe Jr.
Owner Harry Payne Whitney
Conditions Fast
SurfaceDirt
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The 1928 Preakness Stakes was the 53rd running of the Preakness. The race took place on Friday, May 11, 1928, eight days before the Kentucky Derby making it the first leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series. A horse race for three-year-old thoroughbreds, it carried a total purse of $71,370. It was run on a track rated fast in a final time of 2:00 1/5. Ridden by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Raymond Workman, Victorian won the race by a nose over runner-up Toro. Nassak, the betting favorite from the powerful Rancocas Stable finished a distant 11th. The fifth-place finisher, Sun Beau, went on to a brilliant racing career and was voted U.S. Champion Older Horse in three straight years culminating with his 1996 induction into the U.S. National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. [1] [2]

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No Triple Crown attempt

The owners of the Preakness winner chose not to send the colt to Louisville, Kentucky to compete in the May 19th Kentucky Derby. The Daily Racing Form reported that Victorian's owner made a statement by telephone saying the colt had gone through a very tough Preakness and did not do well after the race. Plans called for transporting Victorian to Belmont Park where he would run in the Withers Stakes if his trainer thought the colt was healthy. [3] Victorian won the Withers Stakes. [4]

Record crowd

The Daily Racing Form reported there was a record crowd in attendance on Preakness day which included notables such as Belgium's Prince Ernest and Princess Marguerite de Ligne, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., father of a future President of the United States, the British Ambassador Sir Esmé Howard, Bernard Baruch, George Saportas, and James Wood Colt, among others.

Maryland Governor Albert Ritchie presented the Woodlawn Vase to James G. Rowe Jr., the winning trainer who accepted it on behalf of the absent Harry Payne Whitney.

Death of scheduled Preakness rider

Twenty-five-year-old jockey Ovila Bourassa was scheduled to ride Solace in the 1928 Preakness. The colt, who would finish third, was owned by the Seagram Stables for whom jockey Bourassa had ridden Sir Harry to a second-place finish in the 1927 Preakness Stakes. Three weeks prior to the running of the 1928 Preakness, the young jockey died from a fractured skull after the saddle girth slipped on a horse he was breezing in the early morning hours at Havre de Grace Racetrack in Havre de Grace, Maryland.

A champion Canadian jockey, and very popular with his racing fraternity and race fans in the United States, Ovila Bourassa's death received wide coverage in newspapers in both countries. The New York Times wrote that Bourassa "rode winners of many classics" and was "one of the best-known riders in the country". [5] The New York Daily News called him a "rider of great promise" and someone who was "in the first rank of riders." [6] In his native Canada, the Calgary Daily Herald said Ovila Bourassa was "one of the outstanding figures in Canadian racing." [7]

Payout

The 51st Preakness Stakes Payout Schedule

Program
Number		Horse Name
Win
Place
Show
7 Victorian $20.70$10.20$7.50
8Toro-$22.00$14.20
3Solace--$19.50

The full chart

Daily Racing Form Charts [8]

Finish
Position		 Margin
(lengths)		Post
Position		Horse nameJockeyTrainerOwnerPost Time
Odds		Earnings
1st07 Victorian Raymond Workman James G. Rowe Jr. Harry Payne Whitney 9.35-1$60,000
2ndNO8Toro Eddie Ambrose John F. Schorr Edward Beale McLean 21.70-1$5,000
3rd21⁄23SolaceLeslie Pichon William H. Bringloe Seagram Stables 37.25-1$3,000
4th34Strolling PlayerGeorge Fields Robert A. Smith Salubria Stable 4.55-1 †$2,000
5thHD6 Sun Beau John CraigmyleCharles W. Carroll Willis Sharpe Kilmer 17.85-1
6th617PenaloWillie KelsayRobert A. Smith Lawrence Waterbury II 15.55-1 Ŧ
7thHD14Typhoon Louis Schaefer H. Guy Bedwell Kenton Farm stable21.30-1
8th41 Bateau Fred Stevens Scott P. Harlan Walter M. Jeffords, Sr. 25.35-1
9th1⁄212DistractionDanny McAuliffe George Tappen Wheatley Stable 11.35-1
10thNK13Don Q.Pete Walls Joseph H. Stotler Sagamore Stable 61.35-1
11thNK9Nassak Laverne Fator Sam Hildreth Rancocas Stable 2.35-1
12th11⁄211Sortie Clarence Kummer Max Hirsch A. Charles Schwartz15.55-1 Ŧ
13th115Bobashela Herb Fisher S. Miller Henderson Audley Farm Stable 4.55-1 †
14th11⁄210Friar's HopeEdgar BarnesJames S. ButlerMrs. J. Simpson Dean143.95-1
15th116KnapsackSteve O'Donnell William M. Garth Salubria Stable 4.55-1 †
16th11⁄22Oh SayAnthony Pascuma Albert B. Gordon Fair Stable 92.65
17th1⁄218 Petee-Wrack Mack Garner Willie Booth John R. Macomber 18.65
18th85BroomsHarvey Elston Gwyn R. Tompkins Brookmeade Stable 18.85

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