No Politics, Just Our Preakness Picks The Rail's contributors welcome this year's Preakness Stakes guest picker, Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake, who became Baltimore's 49th mayor in 2010 and in November 2011 was elected to her first full term, receiving 87 percent of the vote in the mayoral general election. There's a similar level of consensus surrounding who will win on Saturday. See how we did in the Derby, where four of eight handicappers correctly chose Orb as the winner. And make your picks along with us in the comment section below.