Bet Preakness Stakes: 2008 Preakness Stakes Betting OddsThe 2008 Preakness Stakes betting odds have finally been posted! The ultimate online sports, casino and poker betting and gaming giant Sportsbook.com has put out the betting odds on the Preakness Stakes! The 133rd running of the Preakness Stakes will take place at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland on Saturday, May 17th at 6PM. Only America's top 3-year old thorough-breds come out to race for the $1 million US purse.The Preakness Stakes is a Grade 1 stakes race held on the third Saturday in May each year. The Preakness has been termed "The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans" because a horseshoe of black-eyed susans (Rudbeckia hirta), the state flower of Maryland, is traditionally placed around the winner's neck. The Preakness is the second and shortest leg in thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. The Derby winner usually always races in the Preakness along side many of the other Derby contestants, only a few horses that did not start in the Derby race in the Preakness Stakes. Join the Millions of Americans who bet on Sports, Horses, play Poker and Blackjack at the World's largest online sportsbook and casino, Sportsbook.com! Enjoy thoroughbred and harness racing from over 90 of the finest tracks in North America and their 3% cash back rebate! At the NEW Sportsbook.com Casino, Get Massive Progressive Jackpots and choose from over 120 Games! And always receive a 10% Cash Bonus, 21% Referal Bonus and tons of other great promotions! Join Sportsbook.com Today! The Preakness Stakes began in the year 1873, two years before the first Kentucky Derby was run for the first time. Former Maryland Governor Oden Bowie named the then mile and one-half (2.41 km) race in honor of the colt Preakness from Milton Holbrook Sanford's Preakness Stables in Preakness, Wayne Township, New Jersey who won the Dinner Party Stakes on the day Pimlico Race Course opened on October 25, 1870. The first Preakness drew seven starters; John Chamberlain's three-year-old, Survivor, galloped home easily by ten lengths, the largest margin of victory until 2004, winning a purse of $2,050. Receive free Preakness Stakes predictions Today!! 2008 Preakness Stakes Betting Odds sponsored by Sportsbook.com - May 17th, 2008
--- by Bones McCoy at 1800-sports.com on May 09, 2008
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