1947 Preakness Stakes

57th Preakness Stakes
Preakness Stakes
LocationPimlico Race Course,
Baltimore, Maryland,
United States
DateMay 10, 1947 (1947-05-10)
Winning horseFaultless
Winning time1:59 0/0
JockeyDouglas Dodson
TrainerJimmy Jones
OwnerCalumet Farm
ConditionsThree-year-olds, 126 lbs.
SurfaceDirt

The 1947 Preakness Stakes was the 57th running of the $100,000 added Preakness Stakes, a horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds. The second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series took place on May 10, 1947, and was run seven days after the 1947 Kentucky Derby. Ridden by Douglas Dodson, who was praised by the Daily Racing Form for a smart ride, Faultless won the mile and three sixteenths race by one and a quarter lengths over runner-up On Trust with the betting favorite Phalanx in third. Jet Pilot, winner of the Kentucky Derby, finished fourth. The race was run on a track rated fast in a final time of 1:59 flat.