Why is it called The Preakness?

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The Preakness Stakes isn't named after the location the race takes place and it isn't named after a person. So where did that name come from?
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And people from in and around Wayne, NJ know it's actually pronounced as Prake-ness, the first part of the word rhyming with brake.

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