Get Your Preak On

Get your Black-Eyed Susan right here.
CDW and Melissa.
CDW, JAS, Melissa, Chris, ??
Kate and JAS.
CDW and JAS.
CDW kicking off the BES action.
Reporter interviewing the Chrises about their fashion decisions for the day. You can't see it in this photo, but Chris has on very buffy pants. They are green with little crabs on them. He also has on a bow tie.

Yesterday was the 135th running of the Preakness Stakes, and we were there. For all of you non-horse people (really I'm included in that group - I only know this because now I am a Baltimorean), the Preakness is the second race in the Triple Crown series. The Kentucky Derby is race 1, Preakness, then the Belmont Stakes up in New York. A Triple Crown Winner is a horse that wins all three races. The last one was Affirmed in 1978. Interesting to also note is that the Triple Crown Winner in 1935 was a horse called Omaha. This year there will not be a Triple Crown Winner. There was a lot of hype about the Derby winner, Super Saver, but yesterday Lookin at Lucky won the Preakness. Too bad for the Belmont Stakes, right? At least at the Preakness we have the hope of the possibility of a Triple Crown.

For the Preakness Baltimore does it's best to be hoity-toity for the day, but we're still a pretty gritty city, so this looks nothing like Foxfield or the Derby. The official drink of the Preakness is the Black-Eyed Susan. Ingredients are something like Whiskey, Vodka, sours mix . . . and I don't know what.