Barbaro Stakes at Pimlico Race Course

The Barbaro Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies. There are two forms of the sport: Flat racing and National Hunt racing...

for three-year-olds held annually at Pimlico Race Course

Pimlico Race Course

Pimlico Race Course is a horse racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland, most famous for hosting the Preakness Stakes. Its name is derived from the 1660s when English settlers named the area where the facility currently stands in honor of Olde Ben Pimlico's Tavern in London...

in Baltimore, Maryland. It is run as part of the undercard for the Preakness Stakes

Preakness Stakes

The Preakness Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs on dirt. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds ; fillies 121 lb...

, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series. The race offers a purse of $100,000.

Originally known as the Sir Barton

Sir Barton

Sir Barton, , was a chestnut thoroughbred colt who in 1919 became the first winner of the American Triple Crown.He was sired by leading stud Star Shoot out of the Hanover mare Lady Sterling. His grandsire was the 1893 English Triple Crown champion, Isinglass.Sir Barton was bred in Kentucky by...

Stakes and run near the third week of May, the 8.5 furlong ungraded stakes race was renamed for the 2006 Kentucky Derby

Kentucky Derby

The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter mile at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry...

winner, Barbaro

Barbaro

Barbaro was an American thoroughbred who decisively won the 2006 Kentucky Derby, but shattered his leg two weeks later in the 2006 Preakness Stakes, ending his racing career and eventually leading to his death....

, who suffered an injury in the 2006 Preakness Stakes that ultimately cost him his life.

This race was previously run on the Preakness undercard as the Sir Barton Stakes from 1993 through 2006.

Records

Speed record:

1-1/16 miles - 1:42 3/5 - Star Trace (1995) & Mighty Magee (1995)

Most wins by an owner:

2 - R. Larry Johnson (1995 & 1997)
2 - Paraneck Stable (1996 & 2009)

Most wins by a jockey
Jockey
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3 - Edgar Prado (1997, 2002 & 2003)

Most wins by a trainer
Horse trainer
In horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter...

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3 - Nick Zito
Nick Zito
Nicholas Philip "Nick" Zito is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.Zito began his career as a hot walker and worked his way up to a groom, to an assistant trainer, and to a trainer...

(1996, 2004 & 2005)
3 - H. Graham Motion
H. Graham Motion
H. Graham Motion is an American horse trainer, notable for his work with 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom and Better Talk Now. Motion started out training and winning with his own Thoroughbred horses at age 29, his first win was with Bounding Daisy in March 1993 at Laurel Park...

(1995, 1997 & 2000)

Winners of the Barbaro Stakes since 1993

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Distance	Time	Purse	Grade
2011	No Race	-	No Race	No Race	No Race	no race	0:00.00	no race
2010	No Race	-	No Race	No Race	No Race	no race	0:00.00	no race
2009	Our Edge	3	Alan Garcia Alan Garcia (jockey) Alan Garcia is a thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He was Peru's leading apprentice jockey in 2003 and in that same year he began racing in the United States at the Meadowlands Racetrack where he was also the leading apprentice. His father and grandfather were both jockeys in Peru...	Nicholas P. Zito	Robert V. LaPenta	1-1/16	1:43.70	$100,000
2008	Roman Emperor	3	Jeremy Rose Jeremy Rose Jeremy Rose is an American Thoroughbred racehorse jockey. He began his career as a professional rider at Delaware Park in Wilmington, Delaware and in 2001 was his breakout year and he was voted the United States' Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey.In 2005, Rose guided Afleet Alex, to...	Steve Klesaris	Puglisi Stables	1-1/16	1:45.60	$100,000
2007	Chelokee Chelokee Chelokee is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by Foley Farms Bloodstock, he was sired by multiple stakes winner Cherokee Run...	3	Ramon Dominguez	Michael Matz Michael Matz Michael Ray Matz is an American Olympic equestrian rider and horse trainer. He is perhaps most well known for having trained the ill-fated Barbaro to win the 132nd Kentucky Derby in 2006. The previously undefeated colt suffered a career and life ending injury after the start of the Preakness Stakes...	Centennial Farms	1-1/16	1:43.40	$100,000
2006	High Cotton	3	Garrett Gomez	Todd A. Pletcher	Peachtree Stable	1-1/16	1:42.80	$100,000
2005	Pinpoint	3	Rafael Bejarano	Nick Zito Nick Zito Nicholas Philip "Nick" Zito is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.Zito began his career as a hot walker and worked his way up to a groom, to an assistant trainer, and to a trainer...	Smoke & Mirrors Racing LLC	1-1/16	1:44.40	$100,000
2004	Royal Assault	3	Pat Day Pat Day Patrick Alan "Pat" Day is an American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991...	Nick Zito Nick Zito Nicholas Philip "Nick" Zito is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.Zito began his career as a hot walker and worked his way up to a groom, to an assistant trainer, and to a trainer...	Tracy Farmer	1-1/16	1:45.60	$100,000
2003	Best Minister	3	Edgar Prado	Kenneth G. McPeek	Dinesh Maniar	1-1/16	1:43.80	$100,000
2002	Sarava Sarava Sarava is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2002 Belmont Stakes. Sired by the 1984 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Wild Again, he was out of the mare Rhythm of Life, a daughter of Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee and two-time Leading sire in North America,...	3	Edgar Prado	Kenneth G. McPeek	Gary Drake	1-1/16	1:44.00	$100,000
2001	Burning Roma	3	Rick Wilson	Anthony W. Dutrow Anthony W. Dutrow Anthony W. "Tony" Dutrow is an American horse trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing.The eldest of three brothers involved in Thoroughbred racing, he is the son of the late well-known Maryland trainer Richard E. Dutrow, Sr...	Harold L. Queen	1-1/16	1:44.00	$100,000
2000	Broken Vow	3	Shane Sellers Shane Sellers Shane Jude Sellers is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. At age eleven, he began working around horses and in 1983 rode his first winner at Evangeline Downs....	H. Graham Motion H. Graham Motion H. Graham Motion is an American horse trainer, notable for his work with 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom and Better Talk Now. Motion started out training and winning with his own Thoroughbred horses at age 29, his first win was with Bounding Daisy in March 1993 at Laurel Park...	Pin Oak Stud	1-1/16	1:43.20	$100,000
1999	Lead Em Home	3	Kent Desormeaux Kent Desormeaux Kent Jason Desormeaux is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who holds the U.S. record for most races won in a single year, 1989.-Brief biography:...	Phil Marino	Sandi L. Kleeman	1-1/16	1:43.20	$100,000
1998	Thomas Jo	3	Steve Hamilton Steve Hamilton Steven Absher Hamilton was a Major League Baseball and NBA player....	James A. Jerkins	Earle I. Mack	1-1/16	1:43.00	$100,000
1997	Two Smart	3	Edgar Prado	H. Graham Motion H. Graham Motion H. Graham Motion is an American horse trainer, notable for his work with 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom and Better Talk Now. Motion started out training and winning with his own Thoroughbred horses at age 29, his first win was with Bounding Daisy in March 1993 at Laurel Park...	R. Larry Johnson	1-1/16	1:43.00	$83,000
1996	Saratoga Dandy	3	Gary Stevens Gary Stevens Gary Michael Stevens is a retired English footballer who is best remembered playing in defence for a successful Everton side of the 1980s, as well as for the England national football team....	Nick Zito Nick Zito Nicholas Philip "Nick" Zito is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.Zito began his career as a hot walker and worked his way up to a groom, to an assistant trainer, and to a trainer...	Paraneck Stable	1-1/16	1:44.20	$56,275
1995 *	Star Trace	3	L. Reynolds	H. Graham Motion H. Graham Motion H. Graham Motion is an American horse trainer, notable for his work with 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom and Better Talk Now. Motion started out training and winning with his own Thoroughbred horses at age 29, his first win was with Bounding Daisy in March 1993 at Laurel Park...	R. Larry Johnson	1-1/16	1:42.60	$50,000
1995 *	Mighty Magee	3	Chris McCarron Chris McCarron Christopher John "Chris" McCarron is a retired American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He is currently working as a racing analyst for TVG Network....	Leon J. Blusiewicz	Waldorf Farm	1-1/16	1:42.60	$50,000
1994	Kayacan	3	Garrett Gomez	John B. Secor	Turkeli Farms	1-1/16	1:45.60	$55,575
1993	Raglan Road	3	Chris McCarron Chris McCarron Christopher John "Chris" McCarron is a retired American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He is currently working as a racing analyst for TVG Network....	Leon J. Blusiewicz	Haras Vista Hermosa	1-1/16	1:43.60	$56,000

A * signifies that race in 1995 ended in a Dead Heat.

Records

Winners of the Barbaro Stakes since 1993

See also