Preakness Stakes 2018: Craziest photos, videos from Pimlico

Tom Gatto

Preakness Stakes 2018: Craziest photos, videos from Pimlico image

The Preakness Stakes brings out the wild side of thousands of attendees. When the weather is bad, as it was Saturday, and the mud piles up at ancient Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, as it did, things get even wilder.

Here, now, a look at some of the craziest images and videos from the 143rd Preakness Stakes:

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Is that Greco-Roman or freestyle, fellas?

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They commissioned a statue for the Common Fan . . . oh, wait, that's just a dude covered in mud:

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"Yeah, I got a tip from a stablemate."

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Come on in, the muck is fine . . . 

Musical act Post Malone destroyed his instrument in trademark fashion . . .

. . . when he wasn't hanging out with Bill Belichick's party:

Sadly, there was no sign of a Running of the Urinals. If you're feeling nostalgic, take this trip down memory lane (or should that be Porta Potty Row?).

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.