Triple Crown's Preakness to stay at Pimlico

A DISAGREEMENT that threatened to cost Maryland's Pimlico Racecourse its biggest sporting event, the Triple Crown's Preakness Stakes, has been resolved.

"Industry representatives, track owners, horsemen and breeders were able to come together to reach a consensus that will allow for a full season of racing in 2011," Governor Martin O'Malley said in a statement. "Today's agreement not only keeps Maryland's treasured Preakness Stakes where it belongs, but it helps protect the thousands of jobs."

On Tuesday the state's racing commission had rejected a proposed thoroughbred racing calendar for next year, throwing into limbo the running of the Preakness at Pimlico. But the commission a day later approved the O'Malley-brokered plan to keep Pimlico and the Laurel Park open and the Preakness on course.

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The Preakness, run at Pimlico since 1873, is the second leg of the Triple Crown that includes the Kentucky Derby and New York's Belmont Stakes. Past winners of the Preakness have included legends like Man O'War (1920), War Admiral (1937) and Secretariat (1973)

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