The Mac Diarmida Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

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 held annually at Gulfstream Park

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 in Hallandale Beach, Florida

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. A Grade II

Graded stakes race

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 event since 2007, it is open to horses age four and older and is contested on turf

Grass

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 over a distance of one-and-three-eighth miles (11 furlong

Furlong

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s). Raced at the end of January, in 2009 it will run during the third week of February.

Inaugurated in 1995, for the first two years at a distance of one-and-one-sixteenth miles. In 1997, wet weather forced the race to be moved from the turf course to the main dirt track and set at a distance of one-and-one-quarter miles. In 1998 the race was set at its presnt distance of one-and-three-eighths miles.

For 2001, the race was put on hiatus.

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 1⅜ miles on turf)

• 2:10.87 - Stream of Gold (2008)

Most wins:

• 2 - Presious Passion
  Presious Passion
  Presious Passion is a multiple Grade I winning Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in the United States, he is a gelded son of multiple Grade I winner Royal Anthem and the unraced mare, Princesa's Passion, who comes from an extended family of stakes winning horses. Presious Passion's career has included...
  
   (2009, 2010)

Most wins by an owner:

• No owner has won this race more than once.

Most wins by a jockey

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:

• 4 - Jerry Bailey (1997, 1998, 1999, 2002)

Most wins by a trainer

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:

• No trainer has won this race more than once.

Winners of the Mac Diarmida Handicap since 1995

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Distance	Time	Purse	Grade
2011	Prince Will I Am	4	John R. Velazquez	Michelle Nihei	Casa Farms I, LLC	1-3/8	2:13.04	$150,000	II
2010	Presious Passion Presious Passion Presious Passion is a multiple Grade I winning Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in the United States, he is a gelded son of multiple Grade I winner Royal Anthem and the unraced mare, Princesa's Passion, who comes from an extended family of stakes winning horses. Presious Passion's career has included...	7	Elvis Trujillo Elvis Trujillo Elvis Raúl Trujillo is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing best known for riding Maryfield to victory in the 2007 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint which that year was his big break. He is one of two jockeys in American racing whose mother was an Elvis Presley fan and who named their...	Mary Hartmann	Patricia Generazio	1-3/8	2:13.49	$150,000	II
2009	Presious Passion Presious Passion Presious Passion is a multiple Grade I winning Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in the United States, he is a gelded son of multiple Grade I winner Royal Anthem and the unraced mare, Princesa's Passion, who comes from an extended family of stakes winning horses. Presious Passion's career has included...	6	Elvis Trujillo Elvis Trujillo Elvis Raúl Trujillo is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing best known for riding Maryfield to victory in the 2007 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint which that year was his big break. He is one of two jockeys in American racing whose mother was an Elvis Presley fan and who named their...	Mary Hartmann	Patricia Generazio	1-3/8	2:12.10	$150,000	II
2008	Stream of Gold	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...	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...	Zabeel Racing	1-3/8	2:10.87	$150,000	II
2007	Ramazutti	5	John Velazquez	Anthony Sciametta, Jr.	Anstu Stable	1-3/8	2:11.86	$150,000	II
2006	Hotstufanthensome	6	Rajiv Maragh Rajiv Maragh Rajiv Maragh is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. An Indo-Jamaican, he is the son of a jockey who rode in Jamaica before relocating to Florida where he began a career as a horse trainer....	Nathan Sinclair	Running Horse Farm	1-3/8	2:10.90	$100,000	II
2005	Host	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...	John C. Kimmel John C. Kimmel John C. Kimmel is an American thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He holds a pre-med undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School in 1980.-References:**...	C. Kimmel/P. Solondz	1-3/8	2:12.83	$100,000	II
2004	Request For Parole	5	Jose Santos	Stanley M. Hough Stanley M. Hough Stanley M. Hough Stanley M. Hough Stanley M. Hough (born February 20, 1948 in Palatine, Illinois is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer. The son of Chicago-based Thoroughbred owner/trainer Joseph Hough, he embarked on a training career of his own in 1969....	Jeri & Sam Knighton	1-3/8	2:12.58	$100,000	II
2003	Riddlesdown	6	Roger Velez	Niall O'Callaghan	Gary A. Tanaka	1-3/8	2:14.75	$100,000	II
2002	Crash Course	6	Jerry Bailey	Warren A. Croll, Jr. Warren A. Croll, Jr. Warren A. "Jimmy" Croll, Jr. was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred race horse trainer.Croll was born in 1920 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. After finishing high school, he attended the University of Pennsylvania with the intention of becoming a veterinarian but left to pursue his passion for...	Mack Robinson	1-3/8	2:16.27	$100,000	II
2001	No Race	-	No Race	No Race	No Race	no race	no race	no race	II
2000	Unite's Big Red	6	Jorge Chavez Jorge F. Chavez Jorge F. Chavez is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Chavez began his career in horse racing in 1982 in his native Peru and by 1987 was his country's leading rider. In April 1988 he emigrated to the United States where he raced with a great deal of success at Florida race tracks...	Randy Mills	Breakaway Racing Stable	1-3/8	2:12.14	$100,000	II
1999	Panama City	5	Jerry Bailey	William I. Mott	R. Sangster Robert Sangster Robert Edmund Sangster was a British businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder. He was British flat racing Champion Owner five times and his horses won many major races, including two Epsom Derbys, four Irish Derbys, two French Derbys, three Prix de l'Arc de Triomphes and a Melbourne... /J. LaCombe Joseph LaCombe Joseph P. LaCombe is a retired American businessman and owner of Joseph LaCombe Stable Inc., a Thoroughbred horse racing stable...	1-3/8	2:20.65	$100,000	II
1998	Copy Editor	6	Jerry Bailey	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...	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,...	1-3/8	2:16.72	$100,000	III
1997	Mecke	5	Jerry Bailey	Emanuel Tortora	James Lewis, Jr.	1-1/4	2:05.80	$75,000	III
1996	A Real Zipper	3	Aaron Gryder Aaron Gryder Aaron Tod Gryder is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.Growing up fifteen minutes away from the Santa Anita racetrack, as a boy Gryder had no contact with horses other than his father and his grandparents' interest in attending the nearby races...	Ronald Spatz	Not found	1-1/16	1:42.66	$50,000
1995	Kings Fiction	3	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....	H. Allen Jerkens H. Allen Jerkens Harry Allen Jerkens is an American Thoroughbred race horse Hall of Fame trainer.Jerkens' father owned a riding academy on Long Island that led to his interest in horse racing and in 1950 he trained his first winner. Sometimes called the "Giant Killer", he is best known for his upsets...	Hardwicke Stables	1m 70y	1:43.12	$50,000