{"id":11381,"date":"2013-12-12T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/preakness-to-receive-purse-boost\/"},"modified":"2013-12-12T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T14:33:00","slug":"preakness-to-receive-purse-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/preakness-to-receive-purse-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Preakness to receive purse boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore, MD (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The 2014 Preakness Stakes, second leg of racing&#8217;s Triple Crown, will receive a 50 percent purse bump to $1.5 million. The 139th Preakness will be conducted at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday, May 17.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Preakness Stakes is the centerpiece of a terrific stakes program that weekend,&#8221; said Maryland Jockey Club president Tom Chuckas. &#8220;Seventeen of the twenty-six races on Preakness and Black-Eyed Susan days are stakes. With this increase the total value of our stakes program over the two-day period is nearly $4 million.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Run at the distance of 1 3\/16 miles, the Preakness last received a purse increase in 1998 when it was doubled to $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I support the move,&#8221; said Maryland Racing Commission chairman Bruce Quade. &#8220;It is another step in bringing Maryland racing back to a preeminent spot in the racing landscape.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 Preakness was won by Oxbow, trained by Hall of Fame member D. Wayne Lukas and ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens for Calumet Farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore, MD (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The 2014 Preakness Stakes, second leg of racing&#8217;s Triple Crown, will receive a 50 percent purse bump to $1.5 million. The 139th Preakness will be conducted at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday, May 17. &#8220;The Preakness Stakes is the centerpiece of a terrific stakes program that weekend,&#8221; said Maryland Jockey Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}