My Favorite Past Winners of the Preakness Stakes - Photos

The Preakness Stakes post positions will be drawn, and morning-line betting odds

will be announced a short time after 5 p.m. EDT; that means three here...

So, while we're waiting, here are photos of my 

favorite past winners of the Preakness:

Survivor won the first Preakness by 10 lengths in 1873;

his winning distance stood until Smarty Jones won by 10 1/2 lengths

Man o'War, 1920

His owner didn't believe in racing until the second half of May,

so the original Big Red did not run in the Kentucky Derby.

Gallant Fox, 1930

Bimelech, 1940

Tim Tam, 1958

Affirmed, 1978

Risen Star, 1988

under the ride of the great Eddie Delahoussaye