1899 Preakness Stakes

{{short description|24th running of the Preakness Stakes}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Infobox horse race

| name = 24th Preakness Stakes

| horse race = Preakness Stakes

| image =

| caption =

| location = Gravesend Race Track,
Coney Island, New York
United States

| date = {{start date|1899|5|30}}

| winning horse = Half Time

| winning time = 1:47.00

| winning jockey = Richard Clawson

| winning trainer = Frank McCabe

| winning owner = Philip J. Dwyer

| surface = Dirt

| attendance =

| conditions = Fast

| previous = 1898

| next = 1900

}}

The 1899 Preakness Stakes was the 24th running of the $1,000 added Preakness Stakes, a horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run on May 30, 1899, at the Gravesend Race Track on Coney Island, New York. The mile and a sixteenth race was won by Half Time over runner-up Filigrane. The race was run on a track rated fast in a final time of 1:47 flat that equaled the Gravesend track record for the distance.{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1890s/drf1899053101/drf1899053101_1_4 |title=Brooklyn Form Chart - Preakness Stakes |publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1899-05-31 |accessdate=2018-11-14}}

The 1899 Kentucky Derby was run on May 4 and the 1899 Belmont Stakes on May 25, five days before the Preakness.{{cite web|url=https://www.kentuckyderby.com/history/year/1899 |title=1899 Kentucky Derby |publisher=Churchill Downs Incorporated |date=1899-05-04 |accessdate=2018-11-14}}{{cite web|url=https://www.belmontstakes.com/uploads/historical_races/history_pdf_1899.pdf |title=1899 Belmont |publisher=NYRA Belmont Stakes |date=1899-05-25 |accessdate=2018-11-14}} For jockey Richard Clawson, the win aboard Half Time was his second in the 1899 Classics having won the Belmont aboard Jean Bereaud in which he had defeated Half Time.{{cite web|url=https://www.belmontstakes.com/uploads/historical_races/history_pdf_1899.pdf |title=1899 Belmont |publisher=NYRA Belmont Stakes |date=1899-05-25 |accessdate=2018-11-14}}

The 1919 Preakness Stakes would mark the first time the race would be recognized as the second leg of a U.S. Triple Crown series.{{cite news |first=Bennett |last=Liebman |title=The Rail: The Race for the Triple Crown - Origins of Triple Crown |url=http://therail.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/origins-of-triple-crown/ |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York, NY |date=April 24, 2008 |accessdate=May 9, 2009}}

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Finished ! Post ! Horse ! Jockey ! Trainer ! Owner ! Time / behind
1 | 1 | Half Time | Richard Clawson | Frank McCabe | Philip J. Dwyer | 1:47.00
2 | 2 | Filigrane | Fred Littlefield | R. Wyndham Walden | A. H. & D. H. Morris | 3/4
3 | 3 | Lackland | Henry Spencer | A. Jack Joyner | August Belmont Jr. | 5

• Winning Breeder: Walter Showalter (KY)