[1] The Deputed Testamony Stakes is also one of Maryland's Triple Crown prep races.
[2] The race was named in honor of Deputed Testamony, the 1983 Preakness Stakes winner and the last Maryland-bred champion three-year-old colt.
On Preakness Day 1984, Deputed Testamony won the City of Baltimore Handicap and set a new track record for 1+1⁄16 miles in 1:40.40.
He made twenty trips to the post in his career and won eleven times with four seconds and earnings of $674,324.
He was pensioned from stud duty after the 2004 breeding season and died at Bonita Farm on September 18, 2012 at 32 years of age.