For the race of the same name at Monmouth Park Racetrack

Monmouth Park Racetrack

Monmouth Park Racetrack is an American race track for thoroughbred horse racing in Oceanport, New Jersey. It is owned by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority and is operated under a five-year lease as a partnership with Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City.Monmouth Park's marquee event...

, see: Monmouth Regret Stakes

Monmouth Regret Stakes

The Regret Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Raced in early August, it is open to fillies and mares, age three and older...

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The Regret Stakes is a Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

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 horse race for three year old fillies

Filly

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 run on the turf

Grass

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 at Churchill Downs

Churchill Downs

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 in mid-June near the end of the Spring Meet in Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

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. Set at one and one-eighth miles (9 furlong

Furlong

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s), the Grade III

Graded stakes race

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 Regret offers a purse of $200,000 added.

The race is named for Harry Payne Whitney

Harry Payne Whitney

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's 1915 champion filly Regret

Regret (horse)

Regret was a famous American thoroughbred racehorse and the first of three fillies to ever win the Kentucky Derby.-Background:She was foaled at Harry Payne Whitney's Brookdale Farm in Lincroft, New Jersey...

, the first filly to win the 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...

. In the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, she is #71 and in a poll among members of the American Trainers Association, she was voted the third greatest filly in American racing history. Gallorette

Gallorette

Gallorette was a Maryland-bred chestnut thoroughbred filly who became a Hall of Fame race horse. Sired by Challenger II, out of Gallette, Gallorette's damsire was Sir Gallahad III. Even so, her dam, Gallette, had once exchanged hands for $250 and was used as a hack. -Breeding:Trainer Preston M...

 was voted first. Regret was undefeated as a two year-old, she made her three-year old debut in the Derby, winning in wire-to-wire fashion.

It will be in its 40th running in 2009. The race was inaugurated in 1970 and became a graded stakes race

Graded stakes race

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 for the first time in 1999. The Regret Stakes was run at six furlongs for its first twelve years (1970–1981). From 1982-1987 the race was run at a distance of one mile and from 1988-2002 it was run at 1-1/16 miles. From 2003 to present it has been run at its current distance of 1-1/8 miles. In 1977 a filly named Time for Pleasure won the race but was disqualified and placed second.

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 1⅛ miles)

• 1:47.31 - Lady of Venice (2006)

Most wins by a jockey

Jockey

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• 3 - James McKnight (1974, 1983, 1985)
• 3 - Larry Melancon
  Larry Melancon
  Larry J. Melancon is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who rides primarily on the Kentucky-Arkansas circuit....
  
   (1982, 1984, 2001)

Most wins by a trainer

Horse trainer

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• 3 - William I. Mott (1984, 1986, 1991)

Most wins by an owner:

• 2 - Leslie Combs II (1971, 1977)
• 2 - Golden Chance Farm (1974, 1976)
• 2 - H. Polk, Jr. (1984, 1991)

Past winners

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time	Purse	Grade
2011	Bizzy Caroline	Manoel Cruz	Ken McPeek	Runnymeade Farm	1:49.73	$138,125	IIIT
2010	Caminadora	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...	Todd Pletcher Todd Pletcher Todd Pletcher is a leading American thoroughbred horse trainer. He has won four consecutive Eclipse Awards as outstanding Trainer of the Year, while topping the leader board in purse earnings in 2004, 2005, and 2006. His horse Super Saver won the 2010 Kentucky Derby, the first of his 24 horses...	Starlight Partners	1:52.04	$145,250	IIIT
2009	Keertana	Robby Albarado Robby Albarado Robby J. Albarado is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding at the age of 12 at bush tracks in his native Louisiana and after turning professional, earned his first win at Evangeline Downs in 1990...	Thomas F. Proctor Thomas F. Proctor Thomas F. Proctor is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses who won the 1994 edition of the Breeders' Cup Distaff with One Dreamer....	Barbara Hunter	1:52.02	$200,000	III
2008	Pure Clan	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...	Robert E. Holthus Robert E. Holthus Robert E. "Bob" Holthus was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. As a second generation trainer, Holthus learned the profession from his father, Paul Holthus....	Lewis Lakin, et al.	1:49.86	$217,000	III
2007	Good Mood	Edgar Prado	Patrick Biancone Patrick Biancone Patrick Louis Biancone is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He is currently based in the United States, but enjoyed success in both Europe and Hong Kong earlier in his career...	Flying Zee Stable	1:47.57	$228,600	III
2006	Lady of Venice	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...	Patrick Biancone Patrick Biancone Patrick Louis Biancone is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He is currently based in the United States, but enjoyed success in both Europe and Hong Kong earlier in his career...	Martin S. Schwartz	1:47.31	$229,000	III
2005	Rich In Spirit	Gary Stevens	Thomas F. Proctor Thomas F. Proctor Thomas F. Proctor is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses who won the 1994 edition of the Breeders' Cup Distaff with One Dreamer....	Glen Hill Farm	1:49.76	$225,000	III
2004	Sister Star	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...	Kenneth McPeek Kenneth McPeek Kenneth G. McPeek is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Kenneth G. McPeek was born August 2, 1962 in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. He graduated from Tates Creek High School and then the University of Kentucky with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration...	John & Julie Marker	1:51.40	$221,800	III
2003	Sand Springs	Mark Guidry Mark Guidry Mark Guidry is a retired American jockey.He began his riding career in Thoroughbred horse racing in his native Louisiana in 1974 where he remained until 1986 when he went to race in Illinois. He was the leading jockey at Hawthorne Race Course seven times, Sportsman's Park nine times, and two...	Anthony L. Reinstedler	Willmott Stables	1:48.78	$231,000	III
2002	Distant Valley	Jerry Bailey	Niall O'Callaghan	Gary A. Tanaka	1:42.71	$169,050	III
2001	Casual Feat	Larry Melancon Larry Melancon Larry J. Melancon is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who rides primarily on the Kentucky-Arkansas circuit....	Steve Penrod Steve Penrod Steve Penrod is a distinguished professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His education and career have led him to become an expert in the areas of psychology and law. He has contributed heavily to the field of psychology in the area of eyewitness memory, specifically the...	Hidaway Farm	1:42.75	$167,250	III
2000	Solvig	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...	Carl Nafzger Carl Nafzger Carl A. Nafzger is an American Hall of Fame horse trainer. Before he was involved in horseracing he was a championship Rodeo bullrider....	Bentley Smith Revocable Trust	1:42.95	$168,450	III
1999	Nani Rose	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....	Patrick B. Byrne Patrick B. Byrne Patrick B. Byrne is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer who has won three Breeders' Cup races and who in 1997 conditioned Favorite Trick to American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and American Horse of the Year honors and Countess Diana to American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly honors.A native of...	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...	1:42.40	$168,450	III
1998	Formal Tango	Charles R. Woods, Jr.	Albert Stall, Jr.	David J. Hulkewicz	1:48.73	$170,850
1997	Starry Dreamer	Willie Martinez Willie Martinez (jockey) Willie Martinez is a jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing.Martinez was born in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, but emigrated to the United States in 1988 to work as a hotwalker and groom for his sister's godfather at Finger Lakes Race Track in Farmington, New York...	C. R. McGaughey III	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...	1:42.77	$111,900
1996	Daylight Come	Curt Bourque Curt Bourque Curt C. Bourque is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He began his riding career in 1984 at Evangeline Downs in Lafayette, Louisiana and won his first race later that year at Jefferson Downs Racetrack....	Daniel J. Vella Daniel J. Vella Daniel J. "Dan" Vella is a Canadian Champion Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Dan Vella was introduced to Thoroughbred horse racing by an uncle who owned horses and, after graduating from High School, went to work at a racetrack in his native Toronto...	Frank Stronach Frank Stronach Frank Stronach, CM is an Austrian-Canadian businessman. He is the founder of Magna International, an international automotive parts company based in Aurora, Ontario, Canada, and Magna Entertainment Corp., which specializes in horse-racing entertainment...	1:45.72	$85,425
1995	Christmas Gift	Charles R. Woods, Jr.	Mark A. Hennig Mark A. Hennig Mark A. Hennig is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Born into a horse racing family, his father, John Hennig, was also a trainer. After working with his father, Mark Hennig became an assistant to Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas before going out on his own in 1991.-References:*...	Edward P. Evans	1:45.00	$83,400
1994	Packet	J. M. Johnson	Gary Hartlage	Upson Downs Farm	1:42.14	$83,925
1993	Lovats Lady	B. D. Peck	Peter Perkins	Wimborne Farm	1:42.95	$56,300
1992	Tiney Toast	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...	John G. Locke	Delwin Locke	1:44.40	$57,600
1991	Maria Balastiere	S. Payton	William I. Mott	David Richardson & Hiram Polk, Jr.	1:44.40	$54,950
1990	Secret Advice	B. E. Bartram	W. Elliott Walden W. Elliott Walden W. Elliott Walden is the President and CEO of racing operations for WinStar Farm near Versailles, Kentucky and a former Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.From a racing family, Walden grew up in the industry...	Golden Oak Farm	1:44.40	$55,100
1989	Justice Will Come	Steve H. Bass	Herbert Stevens	J. H. Gallagher	1:46.20	$56,450
1988	Lets Do Lunch	K. K. Allen	Lou M. Goldfine	Richard Duchossois	1:45.60	$70,550
1987	Jonowo	M. McDowell	Burk Kessinger, Jr.	R. Leniham	1:39.20	$57,100
1986	Rosemont Risk	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...	William I. Mott	Rosemont Farm	1:36.80	$38,600
1985	Weekend Delight	James McKnight	Neil J. Howard Neil J. Howard Neil J. Howard is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Howard began working for a racing stable in 1969 and went on to spend seven years as an assistant and stable foreman to future Hall of Fame trainer MacKenzie Miller before going out on his own in 1979.With Summer Squall, in 1990 Neil...	William S. Farish William S. Farish William Stamps Farish III is an American businessman and a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom .-Family and Early Life:...	1:35.60	$32,350
1984	Mrs. Revere	Larry Melancon Larry Melancon Larry J. Melancon is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who rides primarily on the Kentucky-Arkansas circuit....	William I. Mott	Hiram Polk, Jr.	1:36.60	$33,650
1983	Rosy Specttre	James McKnight	Eduardo Inda	Tom Gentry	1:37.80	$30,800
1982 #	Amazing Love	Larry Melancon Larry Melancon Larry J. Melancon is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who rides primarily on the Kentucky-Arkansas circuit....	A. J. Foyt III	A. J. Foyt, Jr.	1:37.00	$29675
1982 #	Sefa's Beauty	Mark Sellers	Larry Edwards	Farid Sefa	1:37.60	$29,450
1981	Contrefaire	Tommy Barrow	Robert S. DuBois	Herbert H. Hill	1:11.60	$25,700
1980 #	Forever Cordial	Richard DePass	John T. Ward, Jr. John T. Ward, Jr. John T. Ward, Jr. is an American racehorse trainer. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky with a degree in Agricultural Economics, where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He is a third generation horseman on both sides of his family...	John Oxley John Oxley John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley was an explorer and surveyor of Australia in the early period of English colonisation.October 1802 he was engaged in coastal survey work including an expedition to Western Port in 1804-05...	1:12.00	$24,563
1980 #	No No Nona	Melvin A. Holland	T. J. Walker	Carl Swan	1:12.00	$23,692
1979	Fearless Dame	Richard DePass	Stanley M. Rieser	Robert Courtney	1:10.80	$16,120
1978	Unconscious Doll	Eddie 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...	Ray Lawrence, Jr.	C. C. Green	1:10.60	$14,853
1977	Shady Lou	Eddie 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...	R. J. Fischer	Leslie Combs II	1:10.60	$14,528
1976 #	Carmelita Gibbs	Robert Breen	D. M. Davis	Don Sucher	1:12.80	$14,502
1976 #	Confort Zone	J. C. Espinoza	Smiley Adams	Golden Chance Farm	1:12.80	$14,113
1975	Red Cross	Don Brumfield Don Brumfield Donald Alan Brumfield is a retired American jockey from Kentucky.During his thirty-five year career, Brumfield won 4,573 races in 33,222 rides. He retired from racing in 1989. Brumfield was the "track all-time leading rider in terms of races won " at Churchill Downs, where he won 16 riding titles...	C. R. Werstler	Dixiana Stable	1:09.60	$15,242
1974 #	Clemanna	J. C. Espinoza	Smiley Adams	Golden Chance Farm	1:11.20	$14,763
1974 #	Mary Dugan	James McKnight	Johnnie Johnson, Jr.	Jackson, Trick, Bayne	1:10.40	$15,153
1973	Juke Joint	W. Soirez	Anthony Basile Anthony Basile Anthony Saul Basile is a professional football Forward who last played for Once Municipal-External links:* *...	Bwamazon Farm	1:11.80	$15,535
1972	Nalees Folly	Robert Breen	Stanley M. Rieser	Mr. S. Fairman, Jr.	1:11.80	$15,064
1971	Peninsula Princess	M. Mangello	R. J. Fischer	Leslie Combs II	1:11.20	$15,778
1970	Three Pigeons	Tommy Barrow	P. B. Devereaux	J. W. Greathouse	1:10.80	$15,778

a # signifies that the race was run in two divisions (1982, 1980, 1976, 1974)