The Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, was closed forever last weekend. But fans, and everyone who is interested in the history of the state, have the opportunity to score a number of original pieces in an auction.
After the 150th course of the preakness stakes on Saturday, Pimlico was closed forever. (Courtesy Maryland Department of General Services)
Courty Maryland Department of General Services
A poster of the PREAKNESS of 1989 has ended up. (Courtesy Maryland Department of General Services)
Courty Maryland Department of General Services
Original Pimlico chairs are auctioned. (Courtesy Maryland Department of General Services)
Courty Maryland Department of General Services
You may not know Seattle Slew’s secretariat, but you do have a chance to have a piece of horse racing history.
After the 150th course of the preakness stakes on Saturday, Pimlico, the legendary race track in Baltimore, was closed forever.
The aging song is troubled, while a new number and complex are planned to reopen in 2027.
The Ministry of General Services of Maryland is responsible for auctioning items from Pimlico, and assistant secretary of business Enterprise Administration Ronnie Dampier told WTOP that while the online auction started on Saturday, there are still numerous good items about it.
And he said you don’t have to be a racer, you could also be a history lover or someone who just enjoys collecting unique items.
“We have things like banks that are original for Pimlico,” said Dampier. “We have brass finishing handrails, we have photos.”
They also have room for auction where fans who once took the famous Susan cocktails with black eyes or waited to see if their horse came in to win, Place of Show would have looked at the races.
Dampier said that the bittersweet and yet “very exciting” is to see the dismantling of a racing track that Triple Crown winners of Sir Barton organized in 1919 to justify in 2018.
“The new Pimlico that will be created, I really believe, will be good, quite the face to see,” he said, referring to the future of the site.
In the meantime, he said that the auction has a lot to offer.
“This is a piece of history that you own. It is a piece of history that you can keep and that stories can share with your families, your children, your friends.”
In the 2000s, Pimlico not only organized the preakness, the second gem in the triple crown, but the Binnenveld became famous – or notorious – for what became known as ‘running the urinals’. Participants who were then allowed to take their own drinks with them, climb on top of the portable toilets that were set up and jumped from the top from one to the next, while some members of the crowd looked on their way.
Chichi Nyagah-Nash, Deputy Secretary of the Department of General Services, said items from those days would not be auctioned.
“They would not be for sale; as with most event locations, those urinals were rented from suppliers. So unfortunately no.
But Nyagah-Nash said that the Department of General Services regularly makes surplus articles that are for sale to the public, and that there are happy Ravens fans somewhere with memorabilia in their houses. She said that the department recently carried out an auction of the inventory of the M&T Bank Stadium.
“We make items available that go beyond things such as copy devices and desk and furniture from the state,” she said. “For example, a high-top table with a Ravens logo on it is in someone’s living room because we post it.”
The current Auction of items from Pimlico Continue until Friday.
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