Del Mar Handicap
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The Del Mar Handicap is an American
United States
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 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...

 run each year during the third week of August at the Del Mar Racetrack
Del Mar Racetrack
Del Mar Racetrack is an American Thoroughbred horse racing track at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in the seaside city of Del Mar, California, 20 miles north of San Diego. Operated by the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, it is known for the slogan: "Where The Turf Meets The Surf." It was built by a partnership...

 in Del Mar, California
Del Mar, California
Del Mar is an upscale beach town in San Diego County, California. The population was 4,161 at the 2010 census, down from 4,389 at the 2000 census. The San Diego County Fair is hosted on the Del Mar Fairgrounds every summer. Del Mar is Spanish for "of the sea" or "by the sea", because it is located...

. The Grade II
Graded stakes race
A graded stakes race is a term applied since 1973 by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay...

 race is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race one and three-eighths miles on the Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante
James Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s...

 turf
Grass
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 course.

Since inception, the Del Mar Handicap has been contested at various distances:
  • 11/16 miles : 1937-1948
  • 1⅛ miles : 1949-1969
  • about 1¼ miles on dirt : 1976-1985
  • 1⅜ miles : 1970-1975, 1986–present


The Del Mar Handicap was run in two divisions in 1972.

In 1969, Figonero
Figonero
Figonero was a Thoroughbred racehorse who is best known for racing in the United States where he set a world record for 1⅛ miles in winning the 1969 Del Mar Handicap at Del Mar Racetrack in California....

 won the race in a world record
World record
A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and verified in a specific skill or sport. The book Guinness World Records collates and publishes notable records of all types, from first and best to worst human achievements, to extremes in the natural world and beyond...

 time of 1:46.20 for 1⅛ miles.

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 1⅜ miles)
  • 2:11.14 - Spring House (2008)


Most wins:
  • 2 - Frankly (1948, 1950)
  • 2 - Arrogate (1955, 1956)
  • 2 - How Now (1957, 1960)
  • 2 - Navarone (1992, 1994)
  • 2 - Spring House (2008, 2009)


Most wins by an owner:
  • 3 - Robert E. Hibbert (1966, 1992, 1994)
  • 3 - Edmund A. Gann
    Edmund A. Gann
    Edmund A. Gann is an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner.-Early life and career:...

     (1981, 1993, 2001)


Most wins by a jockey
Jockey
A jockey is an athlete who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing.-Etymology:...

:
  • 8 - Bill Shoemaker (1950, 1953, 1954, 1971, 1976, 1982, 1983, 1987)


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...

:
  • 7 - Charles Whittingham (1961, 1970, 1971, 1976, 1987, 1989, 1990)

Winners

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
2011 Celtic New Year 4 Victor Espinoza
Victor Espinoza
Victor Espinoza is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He began riding in his native Mexico and earned his first win there in 1992 before moving the following year to compete at racetracks in California....

John W. Sadler
John W. Sadler
John W. Sadler is an American horse trainer in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing.Sadler got his first win in 1979 at Golden Gate Fields racetrack in the San Francisco Bay Area...

Michael Jawl 2:14.92
2010 Champ Pegasus 4 Joel Rosario
Joel Rosario
Joel Rosario is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Raised on a farm where he regularly road horses, Joel Rosario attended jockey school for six months. He obtained his professional license at age fourteen and began riding at Hipódromo V Centenario in Santo Domingo where he earned his...

Richard Mandella
Richard Mandella
Richard Eugene Mandella is a Thoroughbred horse trainer and a member of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame....

Diamond A Racing/Vargas 2:11.93
2009 Spring House 7 Alex Solis
Alex Solis
Alex O. Solis is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California...

Julio C. Canani R.D. Hubbard 2:12.61
2008 Spring House 6 Corey Nakatani
Corey Nakatani
Corey S. Nakatani is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He got his big break in 1990 when he rode Itsallgreektome to win big stakes races.Nakatani currently resides at Belmont Park...

Julio C. Canani Randall D. Hubbard 2:11.14
2007 After Market 4 Alex Solis
Alex Solis
Alex O. Solis is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California...

John Shirreffs
John Shirreffs
John A. Shirreffs is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Based in California, Vietnam War veteran John Shirreffs began training Thoroughbreds in 1978. He has won a number of stakes races with his most important coming in the 2005 Kentucky Derby when Giacomo scored a major upset...

Pam & Martin Wygod
Martin J. Wygod
Martin J. Wygod is an American businessman and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder. A business administration graduate from New York University, he joined a Wall Street stock brokerage firm before becoming a managing partner in a similar firm.In 1964, Wygod became involved with...

2:13.01
2006 T.H. Approval 5 Alex Solis
Alex Solis
Alex O. Solis is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California...

Eduardo Inda Tadahiro Hotehama 2:12.34
2005 Leprechaun Kid 6 Tyler Baze
Tyler Baze
Tyler Baze is an American Champion jockey. Born into a racing family, both of his parents were jockeys as is his uncle, Gary Baze. His second cousin is U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey, Russell Baze....

Mike R. Mitchell Anastasi, Ukegawa, et al. 2:12.81
2004 Star Over The Bay
Star Over The Bay
Star Over The Bay was a Thoroughbred racehorse who rose from the claimer ranks for $80,000. Once he began winning his races, he earned more than $700,000...

6 Tyler Baze
Tyler Baze
Tyler Baze is an American Champion jockey. Born into a racing family, both of his parents were jockeys as is his uncle, Gary Baze. His second cousin is U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey, Russell Baze....

Mike R. Mitchell G. Racing et al. 2:12.71
2003 Irish Warrior 5 Alex Solis
Alex Solis
Alex O. Solis is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California...

Wallace Dollase
Wallace Dollase
Wallace A. "Wally" Dollase is an American trainer and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses.Among his numerous Graded stakes race wins, Dollase won the 1996 Breeders' Cup Distaff with Jewel Princess who was voted that year's Eclipse Award as the American Champion Older Female Horse.Wally Dollase and...

Coleman, Dasaro, et al. 2:12.28
2002 Delta Form 6 Goncalino Almeida
Goncalino Almeida
Gonçalino Feijó de Almeida is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. A riding champion in his native Brazil, he has been racing in the United States since 1990...

Jenine Sahadi Team Valor
Team Valor
Team Valor Stable LLC is an American Thoroughbred horse racing stable based in Versailles, Kentucky. It was founded by Barry Irwin and Jeff Siegel who create partnerships with racing enthusiasts to race Thoroughbred horses at major racing venues, primarily in North America.In early July 2007,...

2:12.15
2001 Timboroa 5 Laffit Pincay, Jr.
Laffit Pincay, Jr.
Laffit Alejandro Pincay, Jr. is a flat racing's all-time winningest jockey. He competed primarily in the United States.-Career:...

Robert J. Frankel Edmund A. Gann
Edmund A. Gann
Edmund A. Gann is an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner.-Early life and career:...

2:12.59
2000 Northern Quest 5 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....

Robert J. Frankel 3 Plus U Stable 2:12.65
1999 Sayarshan 4 Brice Blanc
Brice Blanc
Brice Blanc is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Blanc attended a jockey's apprentice school in his native France then, encouraged by trainer Ben Cecil, in October 1993 emigrated to the United States where he settled in Southern California and began racing at area tracks...

Nick Canani Dehaven/Prestonwood 2:14.20
1998 Bonapartiste 4 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....

Ron McAnally
Ron McAnally
Ronald L. McAnally is an American Hall of Fame trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. Called "one of the most honored and respected of North American trainers" by Thoroughbred Times Co., Inc, as a child, he and his four siblings were placed in an orphanage following the death of their mother...

Ecurie Fabien Ouaki 2:14.00
1997 Rainbow Dancer 6 Alex Solis
Alex Solis
Alex O. Solis is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California...

Jenine Sahadi Evergreen Farm 2:13.60
1996 Dernier Empereur 6 Pat Valenzuela
Pat Valenzuela
Patrick Angel Valenzuela is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born into a racing family, his father plus three of his uncles, including Ismael Valenzuela, were jockeys. He rode his first career winner on November 10, 1978, at Sunland Park Racetrack in Sunland Park, New Mexico...

Ben D.A. Cecil Gary A. Tanaka 2:13.80
1995 Royal Chariot 5 Laffit Pincay, Jr.
Laffit Pincay, Jr.
Laffit Alejandro Pincay, Jr. is a flat racing's all-time winningest jockey. He competed primarily in the United States.-Career:...

Edwin J. Gregson D&V Enterprises, Inc. 2:13.60
1994 Navarone 6 Pat Valenzuela
Pat Valenzuela
Patrick Angel Valenzuela is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born into a racing family, his father plus three of his uncles, including Ismael Valenzuela, were jockeys. He rode his first career winner on November 10, 1978, at Sunland Park Racetrack in Sunland Park, New Mexico...

Rodney Rash
Rodney Rash
Rodney R. Rash was an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses.Born in Frederick, Maryland, Rash grew up on a dairy farm and was exposed to the sights and sounds of Thoroughbred horse racing when he helped his father deliver hay to horse farms and racetracks...

Robert E. Hibbert 2:14.20
1993 Luazur 4 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...

Robert J. Frankel Edmund A. Gann
Edmund A. Gann
Edmund A. Gann is an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner.-Early life and career:...

2:15.00
1992 Navarone 4 Pat Valenzuela
Pat Valenzuela
Patrick Angel Valenzuela is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born into a racing family, his father plus three of his uncles, including Ismael Valenzuela, were jockeys. He rode his first career winner on November 10, 1978, at Sunland Park Racetrack in Sunland Park, New Mexico...

Rodney Rash
Rodney Rash
Rodney R. Rash was an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses.Born in Frederick, Maryland, Rash grew up on a dairy farm and was exposed to the sights and sounds of Thoroughbred horse racing when he helped his father deliver hay to horse farms and racetracks...

Robert E. Hibbert 2:15.00
1991 My Style 4 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:...

Darrell Vienna David Milch
David Milch
David S. Milch is an American writer and producer of television series. He has created several television shows, including NYPD Blue and Deadwood.-Biography:...

2:13.20
1990 Live The Dream 4 Alex Solis
Alex Solis
Alex O. Solis is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California...

Charles Whittingham Bradley/Bradley/Chandler 2:13.00
1989 Payant 5 Robbie Davis
Robbie Davis
Robbie Glen Davis is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.-Early life:Davis grew up in a single parent household forced onto welfare, something that would impact him for the rest of his life....

Charles Whittingham Correas, Seabaugh et al. 2:15.20
1988 Sword Dance 4 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....

John Gosden
John Gosden
John Gosden is a racehorse trainer. Having trained over 2,000 winners since his return to England in 1989, including winners of the Breeders' Cup Classic, the Derby, the King George, the 1,000 Guineas and the St. Leger, he is generally considered one of the most successful racehorse trainers of...

Daniel Schwartz 2:15.80
1987 Swink 4 Bill Shoemaker Charles Whittingham Nelson Bunker Hunt
Nelson Bunker Hunt
Nelson Bunker Hunt is an American oil company executive. He is best known as a former billionaire whose fortune collapsed after he and his brother William Herbert Hunt tried but failed to corner the world market in silver. He is also a successful thoroughbred horse breeder.-Personal:Hunt was born...

2:13.80
1986 Raipillan 4 Russell Baze
Russell Baze
Russell Avery Baze is a horse racing jockey. He holds the record for the most race wins in North American horse racing history, and is a member of the United States Racing Hall of Fame....

Warren Stute Clement L. Hirsch
Clement L. Hirsch
Clement Lang Hirsch was an American businessman and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner who co-founded Oak Tree Racing Association....

2:14.60
1985 Barberstown 5 Fernando Toro John Gosden
John Gosden
John Gosden is a racehorse trainer. Having trained over 2,000 winners since his return to England in 1989, including winners of the Breeders' Cup Classic, the Derby, the King George, the 1,000 Guineas and the St. Leger, he is generally considered one of the most successful racehorse trainers of...

Bell Bloodstock/McDermott 1:58.00
1984 Precisionist
Precisionist
Precisionist was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. In 1985, Precisionist won the Strub Series at Santa Anita Park becoming only the fifth horse to win the Malibu Stakes, the San Fernando Stakes and the Charles H. Strub Stakes...

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....

L.R. Fenstermaker Fred W. Hooper
Fred W. Hooper
Fred William Hooper was an American Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder. He was a member of The Jockey Club, an honorary director of the Breeders' Cup, and one of the founders of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and one of its first presidents.Born in Cleveland, Georgia, ...

1:56.80
1983 Bel Bolide 5 Bill Shoemaker John Gosden
John Gosden
John Gosden is a racehorse trainer. Having trained over 2,000 winners since his return to England in 1989, including winners of the Breeders' Cup Classic, the Derby, the King George, the 1,000 Guineas and the St. Leger, he is generally considered one of the most successful racehorse trainers of...

Stonechurch Stable 1:58.20
1982 Muttering 3 Bill Shoemaker D. Wayne Lukas
D. Wayne Lukas
Darrell Wayne Lukas is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S...

Tartan Stable 1:57.00
1981 Wickerr 6 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....

Robert J. Frankel Edmund A. Gann
Edmund A. Gann
Edmund A. Gann is an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner.-Early life and career:...

1:57.60
1980 Go West Young Man 5 Ed Delahoussaye
Eddie Delahoussaye
Edward J. Delahoussaye is a retired American Thoroughbred jockey from New Iberia, Louisiana.He began his career in 1968 and ten years later became the top American jockey with 384 wins...

Mary Lou Tuck Wild Plum Farm 1:58.20
1979 Ardiente 4 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....

Edwin J. Gregson Jan Siegel 1:56.80
1978 Palton 5 Henry Moreno
Henry Moreno
Henry Moreno was a Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.Moreno's most important win for Harry F. Guggenheim's stable came in the 1953 Kentucky Derby when he rode Dark Star to victory over future the Hall of Fame colt, Native Dancer....

Henry Moreno
Henry Moreno
Henry Moreno was a Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.Moreno's most important win for Harry F. Guggenheim's stable came in the 1953 Kentucky Derby when he rode Dark Star to victory over future the Hall of Fame colt, Native Dancer....

Pinetree Stable 1:57.60
1977 Ancient Title
Ancient Title
Ancient Title was an American Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. Foaled in California, he was bred by William and Ethel Kirkland and raced under Ethel Kirkland's name following her husband's death in 1972...

7 Darrel McHargue
Darrel McHargue
Darrel G. McHargue is a retired American Champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. One of five children from a family not connected to horse racing, he was first introduced to riding as a teeneage boy when he rode a neighbor's Quarter Horse...

Keith L. Stucki Kirkland Stable 1:55.60
1976 Riot in Paris 5 Bill Shoemaker Charles Whittingham M. J. Bradley & Whittingham 1:57.60
1975 Cruiser II 6 Frank Olivares Ron McAnally
Ron McAnally
Ronald L. McAnally is an American Hall of Fame trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. Called "one of the most honored and respected of North American trainers" by Thoroughbred Times Co., Inc, as a child, he and his four siblings were placed in an orphanage following the death of their mother...

Contreras/Mamakos/Stubrin 2:14.60
1974 Redtop III 5 Fernando Toro Evan S. Jackson Daniel Schwartz 2:16.00
1973 Red Reality 7 Braulio Baeza
Braulio Baeza
Braulio Baeza is an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He began racing in 1955 and in 1960, at the urging of agent Camilo Marin, moved to compete in the United States where at the Keeneland Race Course he won the very first he competed in.Braulio Baeza's success in America was...

MacKenzie Miller
MacKenzie Miller
Mackenzie Todd Miller was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and owner/breeder. During his forty-six year career, he conditioned seventy-two stakes winners, including four Eclipse Award champions....

Cragwood Stables 2:17.00
1972 Hill Circus 4 Fernando Toro John H. Adams El Peco Ranch 2:16.00
1972 Chrisaway 4 Robert Howard Paul R. Fout Beverly R. Steinman 2:16.20
1971 Pinjara 6 Bill Shoemaker Charles Whittingham Howard B. Keck 2:15.60
1970 Daryl's Joy 4 Johnny Sellers
Johnny Sellers
Johnny Sellers was an American jockey. Born in Los Angeles, but raised in Oklahoma, he began his professional career in 1955 and between 1959 and 1968 rode in six Kentucky Derbys. He won the prestigious race aboard Carry Back in 1961 then riding the colt to victory in the Preakness Stakes...

Charles Whittingham Robert K. C. Goh 2:15.60
1969 Figonero
Figonero
Figonero was a Thoroughbred racehorse who is best known for racing in the United States where he set a world record for 1⅛ miles in winning the 1969 Del Mar Handicap at Del Mar Racetrack in California....

4 Alvaro Pineda
Alvaro Pineda
Alvaro Pineda was a Mexican jockey who competed in Thoroughbred horse racing in the United States.A top jockey in California, in 1966 Álvaro Pineda finished second in wins at Del Mar Racetrack to Donald Pierce then was the track's leading rider in 1968. He made one one appearance in the Kentucky...

Warren Stute Clement L. Hirsch
Clement L. Hirsch
Clement Lang Hirsch was an American businessman and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner who co-founded Oak Tree Racing Association....

1:46.20
1968 Quicken Tree
Quicken Tree (horse)
Quicken Tree was an American Thoroughbred racehorse known for his dramatic come-from-behind style of running and his ability to win at classic and marathon distances...

5 Bill Hartack
Bill Hartack
William John Hartack Jr. was a Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania.Referred to by the media as both "Bill" and "Willie" during his racing career, Hartack grew up on his widowed father's farm in the Blacklick...

Clyde Turk
Clyde Turk
Clyde Turk was an American jockey and trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. He began riding horses in the 1920s and in 1929 was riding at the new Agua Caliente Racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico...

Rowan
Louis R. Rowan
Louis R. Rowan was an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.A native of California, Rowan was educated in England. In 1968, along with Clement L. Hirsch and Dr. Jack Robbins, he co-founded the Oak Tree Racing Association at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California...

 & Whitney
Wheelock Whitney, Jr.
Wheelock "Whee" Whitney, Jr. is a Minneapolis businessman, educator, sports team executive and owner, philanthropist and politician who attended Phillips Andover and Yale University with George H.W. Bush. He and Bush were both members of Delta Kappa Epsilon at Yale...

1:46.60
1967 Native Diver
Native Diver
Native Diver was an American Thoroughbred racehorse bred and owned by Mr. and Mrs. Louis K. Shapiro who had claimed his dam, Fleet Diver, the daughter of Devil Diver out of Our Fleet by Count Fleet. Despite the fact that her immediate lineage included members of Blood-Horse magazine List of the...

8 Jerry Lambert
Jerry Lambert (jockey)
Jerry Lambert is a retired American jockey in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing best known as the jockey of Hall of Fame inductee, Native Diver.Jerry Lambert accomplished what Breeders' Cup Inc...

Buster Millerick
Buster Millerick
Michael E. "Buster" Millerick was an American Hall of Fame racehorse trainer.Universally known by the nickname, "Buster," Millerick was born in Petaluma, California and learned his trade at his cousins ranch in Sonoma Valley Michael E. "Buster" Millerick (November 30, 1905 - September 30, 1986)...

M/M Louis K. Shapiro 1:46.60
1966 Old Mose 4 Donald Pierce
Donald R. Pierce
Donald R. Pierce is a retired U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.Based in California, Pierce earned his first win in 1954 and went on to become a leading jockey in the 1960s and 1970s...

Joseph Manzi Robert E. Hibbert 1:47.20
1965 Terry's Secret 3 Alex Maese Carl A. Roles
Carl A. Roles
Carlton A. Roles was an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer who served for a time as the President of the California Thoroughbred Trainers Association....

Poltex Stable 1:47.00
1964 Viking Spirit 4 Kenneth Church
Kenneth Church
Kenneth Church is a retired jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.In his early teens, Church began riding ponies and in 1946 got a job as an exercise rider at Old Woodbine Race Course in Toronto, Ontario. The following year, he was offered a chance to apprentice for future U.S...

Jim Nazworthy
James I. Nazworthy
James I. "Jim" Nazworthy was an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Jim Nazworthy began training horses at age twenty-one. Based in California, among his successful runners, he conditioned horses for owners such as Fannie Hertz, Travis Kerr, as well for his wife's Sledge Stable...

Thomas E. Brittingham III 1:48.00
1963 Mr. Consistency
Mr. Consistency
Mr. Consistency was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was a multiple stakes winner including the Santa Anita Handicap, California's richest race and most important for older horses. He was bred and raced by Travis M. Kerr, best known as the owner of Hall of Fame inductee Round Table. He was...

5 Kenneth Church
Kenneth Church
Kenneth Church is a retired jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.In his early teens, Church began riding ponies and in 1946 got a job as an exercise rider at Old Woodbine Race Course in Toronto, Ontario. The following year, he was offered a chance to apprentice for future U.S...

Jim Nazworthy
James I. Nazworthy
James I. "Jim" Nazworthy was an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Jim Nazworthy began training horses at age twenty-one. Based in California, among his successful runners, he conditioned horses for owners such as Fannie Hertz, Travis Kerr, as well for his wife's Sledge Stable...

Mrs. Ann Peppers 1:47.00
1962 Crazy Kid 4 Alex Maese John G. Canty
John G. Canty
John G. Canty was an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.A native of Ireland, his father and grandfather were racehorse trainers. He emigrated to the United States in 1953 and settled in California. After working in the horse racing industry, in 1959 he became a professional trainer...

Vista Hermosa Stable 1:47.60
1961 Scotland 5 Merlin Volzke
Merlin Volzke
Merlin Paul Volzke is a retired American jockey who raced primarily on the West Coast of the United States. He began his professional career in the 1940s and in 1948 won the riding title at Longacres Racetrack in Renton, Washington....

Charles Whittingham W. M. Ingram 1:46.80
1960 How Now 7 Edward Burns Cecil Jolly George C. Newell 1:46.60
1959 Twentyone Guns 4 George Taniguchi Fred M. Smith M/M John Eyraud 1:47.20
1958 Noredski 5 Donald Pierce
Donald R. Pierce
Donald R. Pierce is a retired U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.Based in California, Pierce earned his first win in 1954 and went on to become a leading jockey in the 1960s and 1970s...

Reggie Cornell
Reggie Cornell
Reginald "Reggie" Cornell was a Thoroughbred horse racing trainer who competed in his native Canada before working for many years in the United States....

Jacques Braunstein 1:47.60
1957 How Now 4 Raymond York
Raymond York
Raymond York is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who rode in a record seven consecutive decades.During his long career, Ray York rode primarily in California where he won the 1964 Hollywood Gold Cup and twice won the West Coast's most important race for three-year-old horses,...

Cecil Jolly George C. Newell 1:47.60
1956 Arrogate 5 Johnny Longden
Johnny Longden
John Eric Longden was an American Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England but his father wanted to build a better life for his family so in 1909 emigrated to Canada, settling in Taber, Alberta. By 1912 Longden Sr. had saved enough money to send for his wife and young son...

Reggie Cornell
Reggie Cornell
Reginald "Reggie" Cornell was a Thoroughbred horse racing trainer who competed in his native Canada before working for many years in the United States....

M/M Dick Griegorian 1:47.00
1955 Arrogate 4 Johnny Longden
Johnny Longden
John Eric Longden was an American Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England but his father wanted to build a better life for his family so in 1909 emigrated to Canada, settling in Taber, Alberta. By 1912 Longden Sr. had saved enough money to send for his wife and young son...

Reggie Cornell
Reggie Cornell
Reginald "Reggie" Cornell was a Thoroughbred horse racing trainer who competed in his native Canada before working for many years in the United States....

M/M Dick Griegorian 1:47.60
1954 Stranglehold 5 Bill Shoemaker Red McDaniel M/M N. Gordon Phillips 1:48.60
1953 Goose Khal 4 Bill Shoemaker Willie F. Alvarado Harry Brown 1:48.60
1952 Grantor 4 Johnny Longden
Johnny Longden
John Eric Longden was an American Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England but his father wanted to build a better life for his family so in 1909 emigrated to Canada, settling in Taber, Alberta. By 1912 Longden Sr. had saved enough money to send for his wife and young son...

William B. Finnegan
William B. Finnegan
William B. "Bill" Finnegan was an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.A native of New York City, Finnegan spent more than fifty years as a trainer primarily on the West Coast of the United States. During his career he conditioned horses for major stable owners such as Vera S. Bragg, movie...

Louis B. Mayer
Louis B. Mayer
Louis Burt Mayer born Lazar Meir was an American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Known always as Louis B...

1:47.60
1951 Blue Reading 4 Bill Pearson Red McDaniel M/M Clement L. Hirsch
Clement L. Hirsch
Clement Lang Hirsch was an American businessman and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner who co-founded Oak Tree Racing Association....

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1950 Frankly 5 Bill Shoemaker Buster Millerick
Buster Millerick
Michael E. "Buster" Millerick was an American Hall of Fame racehorse trainer.Universally known by the nickname, "Buster," Millerick was born in Petaluma, California and learned his trade at his cousins ranch in Sonoma Valley Michael E. "Buster" Millerick (November 30, 1905 - September 30, 1986)...

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1949 Top's Boy 5 Ralph Neves
Ralph Neves
Ralph P. Neves was an American Hall of Fame jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. Born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Neves won 3,772 races, including 173 stakes, and was elected to the Racing Hall of Fame in 1960...

William Molter
William Molter
William "Willie" Molter was an American Hall of Fame horse trainer in the sport of Thoroughbred racing.A native of Fredericksburg, Texas, Willie Molter began his career in horse racing as a jockey at racetracks across the Texas border in Mexico...

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1948 Frankly 3 Jack Westrope
Jack Westrope
Jack Gordon Westrope was an American Hall of Fame jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.Born in Baker, Montana, Westrope was the son of racehorse owner/trainer W. T. Westrope. Jack was only 12 years old when he rode his first winner on a small track in Lemmon, South Dakota...

Buster Millerick
Buster Millerick
Michael E. "Buster" Millerick was an American Hall of Fame racehorse trainer.Universally known by the nickname, "Buster," Millerick was born in Petaluma, California and learned his trade at his cousins ranch in Sonoma Valley Michael E. "Buster" Millerick (November 30, 1905 - September 30, 1986)...

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1947 Iron Maiden 6 William Parnell Charles T. Leavitt Elwood B. Johnston 1:43.20
1946 Olhaverry 7 Melvin Peterson Anthony E. Silver Pan de Azucar Stable 1:43.20
1945 Texas Sandman 4 Melvin Peterson Earl H. Sorrell W. David Rorex 1:43.20
1941 Royal Crusader 4 Lester Balaski Paul Meredith R. C. Stable 1:43.60
1940 Big Flash 3 Eugene Rodriguez
Eugene A. Rodriguez
Eugene A. Rodriguez was a Cuban-born jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Born in Matanzas, Cuba, Rodriguez began his career in racing at Oriental Park in Havana, a racetrack which in 1980 would induct him in their Hall of Fame...

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1939 Wedding Call 3 Willis Ward Charles E. McClain W. C. Gaffers & J. H. Sattler 1:44.00
1938 Ligaroti 6 Willie Moran Lindsay C. Howard
Lindsay C. Howard
Lindsay Coleman Howard was an American sportsman. The son of the prominent businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner, Charles S. Howard, Lindsay Howard began riding horses at a young age and by the early 1930s had developed into a top class polo player...

Binglin Stable
Binglin Stable
Binglin Stable in Moorpark, Ventura County, California was a stock farm established during the latter part of the 1930s to race and breed Thoroughbred horses. The stable was owned by entertainer Bing Crosby and close friend, Lindsay Howard...

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1937 Sally's Booter 5 Tim Sena Joe Luddy Anthony Puccinelli 1:44.80
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