Bee Bee Bee shocked the racing world in 1972 with a front-running performance in the Preakness Stakes, upsetting Kentucky Derby winner and overwhelming favorite Riva Ridge over the muddy track. Carrying the silks of William S. Farish III, Bee Bee Bee became the seventh Maryland-bred winner of the Pimlico classic. He was voted that year's Maryland-bred Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old, after a championship season at 2.

The dark bay colt was bred by William S. Miller, a Chicagoan who for many years served on the Illinois racing commission and operated the Balmoral race meeting. Miller maintained a small number of broodmares with Carey Rogers' at Goodwill Farm in Monkton, among them the *Nizami II mare Paula. A standout producer for Miller, Paula was the dam of stakes winners Abe's Hope and Tusi Bella, both by Miller's Kentucky-based multiple stakes winner Better Bee. Bred back to Better Bee in 1968, she produced Bee Bee Bee the following April.

Trained throughout his career by Del Carroll, Bee Bee Bee kicked off his career for Miller at 2, getting his first win at Pimlico in May, followed by scores Aqueduct, Timonium and Hawthorne Park. He won Timonium's All Maryland Handicap over a sloppy track by three lengths under at staggering 128 pounds. In his prior start he set a Timonium track record for seven furlongs while winning by 17 lengths. In his final start of the year, he shipped to Chicago and won the Hawthorne Juvenile Stakes at Hawthorne Park.

Sold to Farish in January 1972, Bee Bee Bee remained in Carroll's barn. After a dismal early campaign in Florida, a return to Pimlico and a win in the Survivor Stakes proved to his trainer to give the Preakness a try. Ridden by Eldon Nelson and sent off at odds of nearly 19-1, Bee Bee Bee led at every call over the sloppy track, at times nearly a half-dozen lengths in front without being full extended, and cruised in one and a half lengths clear of No Le Hace. Key to the Mint was far back in third, a neck in front of Riva Ridge. The final time equaled the fifth fastest Preakness ever run.

Bee Bee Bee made two more starts that season, adding a victory in the Patriot Stakes at Liberty Bell less than a month later and completing his season with a second in that track's Minuteman Stakes in July. He returned the next year to win twice in a dozen starts, with his best stakes performance a second in Penn National's Pennsylvania Governor's Cup.

Retired with a record of 11 wins, eight seconds and two thirds in 31 starts, and $281,098 in earnings, he was exported to Japan to stand at stud.