Great lengths: How largest Preakness winning margins compare

Smarty Jones holds the record for the largest winning margin at Preakness in 2004, winning by 11 1/2 horse-lengths. With horse-lengths measuring about eight feet, Smarty won by a little more than the approximate distance between two bases in Major League Baseball.

Smarty

Jones

2004

Approximate distance between MLB bases — 90 feet

Survivor

1873

Funny Cide

2003

Count Fleet

1943

Buddhist

1889

Bowling lane — 62.86 feet

Preakness winners all tied for 5th largest margin

American

Pharoah

2015

Hansel

1991

Little

Current

1974

Bold

1951

Dauber

1938

Sources: Preakness, Baltimore Sun research

ANNIE JENNEMANN/THE BALTIMORE SUN