Year S Preakness

It started small. It got monumental. Now, although not exactly "small," it has changed once again. Yet, it's still the Preakness Celebration, and it kicks off in all of its glory tomorrow.Although the budget for this year's Preakness Celebration, which runs through May 18, is $300,000 compared with last year's $775,000, acting executive director Terry Romanoli rejects the notion that the festivities were "scaled back.""I have seen the term 'scaled back' used in the media, but it is not," she says.

A year after the Maryland Jockey Club encouraged Baltimore to get its “Preak” on with a feather-ruffling advertising campaign for last year’s Preakness party, event organizers are turning to a spokes-centaur named “Kegasus” to generate interest in the 2011 Preakness InfieldFest , which is May 21 at Pimlico Race Course. The Maryland Jockey Club announced today in a press release the launch of this year’s InfieldFest campaign, “The Legend of Kegasus,” which centers on a mythical creature that is half-horse and half-man -- and a full-on “party manimal,” according to the release.