Firecracker Breeders' Cup Handicap
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The Firecracker Handicap is an American thoroughbred horse race
run annually on the turf
course at Churchill Downs
. The Grade II
event is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race one mile and currently offers a purse of $232,000.
Thoroughbred horse race
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run annually on the turf
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course at Churchill Downs
Churchill Downs
Churchill Downs, located in Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, is a Thoroughbred racetrack most famous for hosting the Kentucky Derby annually. It officially opened in 1875, and held the first Kentucky Derby and the first Kentucky Oaks in the same year. Churchill Downs...
. The Grade II
Graded stakes race
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event is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race one mile and currently offers a purse of $232,000.
Winners of the Firecracker Breeders' Cup Handicap since 2000
| Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Time |
| 2011 | Wise Dan | 4 | Charles Lopresti | Morton Fink | 1:34.59 | |
| 2010 | Tizdejavu | 5 | Cooper/Ziebarth | 1:35.98 | ||
| 2009 | Mr. Sidney | 5 | 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:... |
William I. Mott | Circle E Racing | 1:37.28 |
| 2008 | Thorn Song | 5 | 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:... |
Dale Romans | Zayat Stables | 1:36.89 |
| 2007 | Remarkable News | 5 | Ramon Dominguez | Angel Penna, Jr. | Holly Rincon | 1:34.74 |
| 2006 | Miesque's Approval | 7 | Eddie Castro Eddie Castro Eddie Castro is a Panamanian-born jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He grew up on a produce farm in Panama where he learned to ride saddle horses. Influenced by the accomplishments of other local jockeys, Castro attended the Panamanian jockey school and began riding in races in... |
Martin D. Wolfson Martin D. Wolfson Martin "Marty" D. Wolfson is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He embarked on a professional training career in the early 1970s. He is the son of Louis Wolfson, owner of Florida's Harbor View Farm who won the U.S... |
Live Oak Plantation | 1:34.52 |
| 2005 | Kitten's Joy Kitten's Joy Kitten's Joy is an American Thoroughbred racehorse by the Sadler's Wells stallion El Prado out of the Lear Fan mare Kitten's First. Kitten's Joy is owned and bred by Ken and Sarah Ramsey... |
4 | Edgar Prado | Dale L. Romans Dale L. Romans Dale L. Romans is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.The son of a trainer, Dale Romans is best known for training the winner of the 2011 Preakness, Shackleford.... |
Ken & Sarah Ramsey | 1:35.25 |
| 2004 | Quantum Merit | 5 | 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.... |
Del Carroll, Jr. | Very Un Stable | 1:34.15 |
| 2003 | Tap The Admiral | 5 | John McKee John McKee John McKee was an American politician who served as the first Representative of Alabama's 2nd District from 1823 to 1829. McKee was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia , and attended Liberty Hall Academy in Lexington... |
Del Carroll, Jr. | Stanley Ettinger | 1:35.48 |
| 2002 | Good Journey | 6 | 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... |
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... |
Flaxman Holdings | 1:34.83 |
| 2001 | Irish Prize | 5 | Gary L. Stevens | Neil Drysdale Neil Drysdale Neil D. Drysdale is an American based thoroughbred race horse trainer.Based in Playa Del Rey, California, he has won two Triple Crown races - the Belmont Stakes with A.P. Indy in 1992 and the Kentucky Derby with Fusaichi Pegasus in 2000... |
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1:34.68 |
| 2000 | Conserve | 4 | 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.... |
Frank L. Brothers Frank L. Brothers Frank L. Brothers is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer who in 1991 won two of the three U.S. Triple Crown races... |
Claiborne Farm Claiborne Farm Claiborne Farm is a thoroughbred Horse breeding operation in near Paris, Kentucky. It was established in 1910, by Arthur B. Hancock, owner of Ellerslie Farm in Albemarle County, Virginia, and has been operated by members of his family ever since.-Owners:... |
1:35.12 |