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BALTIMORE — When Secretariat won the Preakness on the way to his Triple Crown, the news appeared alongside stories about Watergate on The Baltimore Sun’s May 20, 1973, front page. In the half-century since, no horse has finished the 1 3/16-mile track at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore faster than…

BALTIMORE — George Cusimano heard the big, red horse coming more than he saw him.

BALTIMORE — Kevin Liles first attended Preakness, the second leg of the Triple Crown series, as a teenager with his father in the 1980s. But it was years down the line before he fully understood what was happening at the Pimlico Race Course.

NEW YORK — Though they had only a train ride from Baltimore to New York and the convenience of not changing hotels as they faced the Yankees and Mets in consecutive series, the Rays still felt the road was long and seemingly without end.