The La Prevoyante Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

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 run annually at Calder Race Course

Calder Race Course

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 in Miami Gardens, Florida

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. The race is open to filles

Filly

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 and mares

Mare (horse)

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, age three and up, willing to race one and one-half miles on turf

Grass

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. The Grade II

Graded stakes race

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 race carries a purse of $200,000.

The La Prevoyante Handicap is named for the Hall of Fame

National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

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 filly

Filly

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 La Prevoyante

La Prevoyante

La Prevoyante was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred race horse elected to the Racing Halls of Fame in the United States and Canada. A filly, she was bred and owned by Jean-Louis Lévesque...

 who collapsed and died in the unsaddling area at Calder Race Course after a December 28, 1974 race.

First run in 1976, the following year there was no race but it returned permanently in 1978. It has been competed at various distances:

• 8.5 furlongs (1 ¹/16 miles) : 1976
• 9 furlongs (1⅛ miles) : 1978–1983
• 12 furlongs (1 ½ miles) : 1984 to present

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 1 ½ miles)

• 2:26.10 - Rigamajig (1991)

Most wins:

• 2 - Coretta (1998, 1999)

Winners of the La Prevoyante Handicap since 1998

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2011	Changing Skies	6	Kent J. Desormeaux	William I. Mott	Swettenham Stud	2:27.04
2010	no race
2009	Criticism	5	Javier Castellano Javier Castellano Javier Castellano is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Castellano began his riding career in his native Venezuela in 1996 and in June 1997 moved to the United States where rode at race tracks in southern Florida until 2001 when he moved to race on the New York State racing circuit.In...	Thomas Albertrani	Darley Racing Darley Racing Darley Racing is a one of the world's preeminent thoroughbred horse racing operations. It is controlled by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and vice-president of the United Arab Emirates....	2:29.33
2008	Herboriste	5	Julien Leparoux Julien Leparoux Julien R. Leparoux is a Champion jockey currently racing in the United States.Leparoux, grew up in a racing family, the son of a jockey turned assistant trainer. He worked at the Chantilly Racecourse as a stable hand and in January 2003 emigrated to California to work as an exercise rider for...	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...	Ehrnooth Amelie	2:25.47
2007	Redaspen	5	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...	Rebecca Maker	Equivine Farm	2:26.63
2006	Safari Queen *	4	John Velazquez	Todd Pletcher	Arindel Farm	2:38.57
2005	Film Maker	5	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...	Courtlandt Farms	2:27.75
2004	Arvada	4	Edgar Prado	Robert J. Frankel	Giles W. Pritchard-Gordon	2:27.19
2003	Volga	5	Richard Migliore	Kiaran McLaughlin Kiaran McLaughlin Kiaran P. McLaughlin is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He currently has a blog website, at http://kiaranmclaughlin.com where he updates what horses he has racing for that particular day...	H. Joseph Allen H. Joseph Allen H. Joseph Allen is an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.A graduate of the University of Michigan, Allen is a partner with his cousin Peter M. Brant in the privately owned newsprint company, Brant-Allen Industries, Inc...	2:26.13
2002	New Economy	4	Rosemary Homeister, Jr. Rosemary Homeister, Jr. Rosemary Homeister, Jr. is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. Both of Homeister's parents were jockeys and as a result she grew up riding horses. Her mother is now a horse trainer at the Calder Race Course where Rosemary won her first race as an apprentice jockey...	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...	Robert S. Evans	2:28.55
2001	Krisada	5	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...	C. R. McGaughey III	Stonerside Stable Stonerside Stable Stonerside Stable is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding farm and horse racing operation in Paris, Kentucky. Until September 2008 it was owned by Robert and Janice McNair, who also own the National Football League team, the Houston Texans...	2:26.63
2000	Prospectress	5	Jerry D. Bailey	Tom Skiffington, Jr.	Susan Thomas	2:26.97
1999	Coretta Coretta Coretta is a Thoroughbred racemare who competed in the United States. She was bred and raced by Gerald Leigh, proprietor of England's Eydon Hall Stud. Leigh owned and bred her dam, Free At Last, who was a daughter of the 1978 Epsom and Irish Derby winner, Shirley Heights...	5	Jose A. Santos	Christophe Clement Christophe Clement Christophe Clement is a Thoroughbred horse trainer in the United States.- Racing background :Christophe Clement initially acquired his training skills from father Miguel, a leading trainer in France, Christophe later worked for the prominent French racing family of trainer Alec Head...	Gerald W. Leigh	2:27.27
1998	Coretta Coretta Coretta is a Thoroughbred racemare who competed in the United States. She was bred and raced by Gerald Leigh, proprietor of England's Eydon Hall Stud. Leigh owned and bred her dam, Free At Last, who was a daughter of the 1978 Epsom and Irish Derby winner, Shirley Heights...	4	Jose A. Santos	Christophe Clement Christophe Clement Christophe Clement is a Thoroughbred horse trainer in the United States.- Racing background :Christophe Clement initially acquired his training skills from father Miguel, a leading trainer in France, Christophe later worked for the prominent French racing family of trainer Alec Head...	Gerald W. Leigh	2:26.60

*Weather conditions resulted in the 2006 race being switched from the turf to what was a sloppy dirt track.