When today's Preakness Stakes ends, Lawrence Jones's work begins. He quickly paints the winning jockey's colors on a weather vane at Pimlico Race Course.
BALTIMORE—Since 1988, Lawrence Jones has been the keeper of a Preakness Stakes tradition. Every year, moments after the race ends, he paints the winning jockey’s colors on a horse-and-rider weather vane at the Pimlico Race Course winner’s circle.
He has painted in drizzle and in sunshine, atop a rickety ladder and from a hydraulic lift known as a cherry picker. He has memorialized wins by two eventual Triple Crown champs, including Justify last year, and the first filly to win in 85 years, Rachel Alexandra, in 2009. He has...
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