There’s an obvious strategy to saving the Preakness that no one is talking about. Make it affordable.

The only thing at full capacity were the prices. Looking at $220 parking and $22 cocktails, you would have never known this was the off-brand year for the Preakness.

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But a mostly empty grandstand for the Preakness — on a weekend when locals had much more appealing and affordable options — might be the loudest signal yet that racing will need a shock to its way of doing things if it ever hopes to see a packed house again.

Baltimore Banner -Kyle Goon: There’s an obvious strategy to saving the Preakness that no one is talking about. Make it affordable.

Phil has a question:

Does the Intellectual Property for the Preakness include the Running of The Urinals.

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Phil M. Stockmen