Horse Racing Betting Slip from the Preakness, 1979
date: label: date made
content: 1979
notes: label: Description
content: The Preakness Stakes has been run at Baltimore MD's Pimlico racetrack since 1873. The second leg of horse racing's <i>triple crown, </i> the race is held in May, after the Kentucky Derby and before the Belmont Stakes.
label: Description
content: This betting ticket comes from the 1979 Preakness, won by Kentucky thoroughbred Spectacular Bid, jockeyed by 19-year-old Baltimore native Ronnie Franklin. Spectacular Bid and Franklin also won that year's Kentucky Derby.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Horse Racing
label: level of sport
content: Professional
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Michael R. Harris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0618.08
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0618.08
label: accession number
content: 1979.0618
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Slip, Betting
label: Object Name
content: ticket
label: Object Name
content: ticket, horse racing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 2 in; 7.62 cm x 5.08 cm