The Preakness winner is draped with a black-eyed Susan blanket -- except the flowers are fakes because Black-Eyed Susans don't bloom in Maryland until June.

When Aristides won the Kentucky Derby in 1875, it was actually one-quarter of a mile longer, with a purse of $2,850.

Donerail was the upset winner of the 1913 Kentucky Derby. With odds of 91-1, his win stands as the biggest longshot victory in the history of the Kentucky Derby.

The Preakness Stakes has been run on Saturday afternoons since 1931. Previously, it had been run on every day except Sunday.

A Derby win may have eluded Diane Crump, but she scored more than 230 victories on track before leaving the sport in 1985.

A steeplechase is a distance horse race in which competitors are required to jump diverse fence and ditch obstacles.

In harness racing, the last lap of a race is signified by the ringing of the bell.

Owned and bred by Marcus Daly, one of the wealthy Montana Copper Kings, Scottish Chieftain was trained by Matt Byrnes and ridden by jockey J. Scherrer when he won the 1897 Belmont Stakes.

His only loss came at Saratoga Race Course, later nicknamed the Graveyard of Champions, where he lost by a neck to a colt fittingly named Upset.

Secretariat raced in Meadow Stables' blue-and-white-checkered colors.