Demolition at Baltimore's historic Pimlico Race Course will begin on Thursday, July 24, with the complete redevelopment expected to be finished in time for the 2027 Preakness Stakes.

Zay Flowers, of the Baltimore Ravens, makes a stop at the Afro Preak tent. The 150th running of the Preakness Stakes begins as the horses thunder from the starting gate.

ARBUTUS, Md. — With Kentucky Derby-winner Sovereignty out of the picture for the 150th Preakness Stakes, the field is open for a champion in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown in Baltimore.

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Sovereignty is not running out of that starting gate in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, two weeks after winning the Kentucky Derby. Yet he is still the talk of Pimlico Race Course this week.

Now in its fourth year, AfroPreak is shifting the culture at one of horse racing’s oldest institutions—by making sure Black voices, businesses, and brilliance take the lead.

The gates open Preakness Day at 8 a.m. for the facility. The InfieldFest, Preakness Village and Turfside Terrace gates open at 9 a.m. The first race post on Preakness Day is at 10:30 a.m.

ARBUTUS, Md. — With Kentucky Derby-winner Sovereignty out of the picture for the 150th Preakness Stakes, the field is open for a champion in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown in Baltimore.

ARBUTUS, Md. — With Kentucky Derby-winner Sovereignty out of the picture for the 150th Preakness Stakes, the field is open for a champion in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown in Baltimore.

ARBUTUS, Md. — With Kentucky Derby-winner Sovereignty out of the picture for the 150th Preakness Stakes, the field is open for a champion in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown in Baltimore.

ARBUTUS, Md. — With Kentucky Derby-winner Sovereignty out of the picture for the 150th Preakness Stakes, the field is open for a champion in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown in Baltimore.