Sunny's Halo was coming into the race as the Derby champion. Surely he was the one to beat in the race. Somebody forgot to tell that to the local Deputed Testamony. Trained by Bill Boniface, the Traffic Cop colt entered the Preakness off a win in the Keystone Stakes, and had won the Tesio over the Pimlico Before he was 6th in the Bluegrass and won the Tesio Stakes which is Pimlico's prep for the race. Deputed Testamony would not disappoint the hometown crowd as he won over Desert Wine and High Honors with Sunny's Halo finishing in sixth. Here is the video of that:
Deputed Testamony would go onto finish 6th in the Belmont and come back to win the Haskell two starts later. He would end his career with two wins at Pimlico with his final stakes win the City of Baltimore Handicap his final race as well. He would stand his entire stallion career in Maryland where he would sire Hurry Home Hillary, the dam of G1 winner Bellamy Road, stakes winners Under Oath and Donald's Pride as well as G3 placed Churchbell Chimes. He is also the broodmare sire of G1 winner Whitmore's Conn. Deputed Testamony passed away in September of 2012 at Bonita Farm where he was born and stood. He was 32.
Fun Fact: As a 2yo, Deputed Testamony would finish second to Dixieland Band (who would become the grandsire of Union Rags and Broodmare Sire of Street Sense) in the Maryland Juvenile Championship the 3rd place finisher Caveat would win the Belmont in 1983.
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