Big Brown won the 2008 Preakness Stakes on Saturday, winning in great fashion at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.
Big Brown defeated runner-up Macho Again by 5¼ lengths at the 133rd Preakness Stakes. His final time was 1:54.80 for 1 3/16 miles on a fast track.
Big Brown earned $600,000 for the win and increased his earnings to $2,714,500 for Iavarone and Schiavo, co-owners of IEAH Stables, and Paul Pompa Jr.
Big Brown is one step closer to becoming thoroughbred racing's 12th Triple Crown winner. The last horse to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes was Affirmed in 1978.
Big Brown became the first horse to win the first two legs of the Triple Crown since Smarty Jones in 2004.
Smarty Jones won the 2004 Preakness by 11½ lengths, one year after Funny Cide was a 10½-length winner. Both were overtaken by late surges of the Belmont, at 1½ miles the longest of the three Triple Crown races.
The Belmont Stakes will take place on June 7 in Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.
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