The Longacres Mile Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

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 held annually in August at Emerald Downs

Emerald Downs

Emerald Downs is a thoroughbred racetrack in Auburn, Washington, located a half mile east of Highway 167. It is named after Seattle, the Emerald City.-History:...

 in Auburn, Washington

Auburn, Washington

-Parks:Auburn has an extensive system of parks, open space and urban trails comprising 29 developed parks, 5 undeveloped sites under planning, 2 skate parks, 2 water roatary parks, and over of trails , and almost of open space for passive and active recreation.-Environmental Park:The Auburn...

. The race is open to horses three years of age and older and is run on dirt over a distance of one mile (eight furlongs). A Grade III

Graded stakes race

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 event, it is the showpiece of the Emerald Downs' race meeting.

Part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge series since 2008, the winner of the Longacres Mile automatically qualifies for the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile

Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile

The Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile is a Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up. As its name implies, it is part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, the de facto year-end championship for North American thoroughbred racing, and is run on a dirt course...

. http://www.breederscup.com/challenge.aspx

First run in 1935 at Longacres Racetrack in Renton

Renton, Washington

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, after the track's closing in September 1992, for the next three years the race was run at Yakima Meadows

Yakima Meadows

Yakima Meadows was a horse racing track located in Yakima, Washington.The track closed in 1998 after 37 years of operation. It is a one mile dirt oval with seating for about 3,500 fans....

. In 1996 it was moved to its present location.

In 2008, Jennifer Whitaker became the first female jockey

Jockey

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 to win the Longacres Mile.

Records

In 2003, Sky Jack

Sky Jack

Sky Jack is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred and raced by Rene and Margie Lambert, he was sired by Jaklin Klugman and out of the mare Sky Captive, a daughter of the 1986 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Skywalker.After a successful season in 2000, Sky Jack incurred a knee injury that...

 set the record for the both the fastest time and widest margin of victory at 1:33.00 and 6 ¼ lengths.

Most wins by a jockey

Jockey

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:

• 5 - Gary Baze
  Gary Baze
  Gary Baze is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. An inductee of the Washington State Racing Hall of Fame, his Hall of Fame profile says of him: "As much as anything, Baze is respected throughout the industry for his honesty, courtesy, sportsmanship and work ethic."A member of the...
  
  
• 3 - 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....
  
  

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...

:

• 5 - Jim Penney
• 4 - Allen Drumheller
• 3 - Robert J. Frankel

Winners of the Longacres Mile since 1978

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2011	Awesome Gem Awesome Gem Awesome Gem is a Thoroughbred racehorse. This son of Awesome Again was sold by Crupi's New Castle Farm to West Point Thoroughbreds for $150,000 in California at the 2005 Barretts March 2-year-old sale. His partnership includes Paul Blavin, Scott Cadwallader and Patrice Arundel of Vista, CA, and...	8	David Flores	Craig Dollase	West Point Thoroughbreds	1:34.80
2010	Noosa Beach	4	Ricky Frazier	Doris Harwood	Harwood	1:34 4/5
2009	Assessment	5	Gallyn Mitchell	Howard Belvoir	Tice Ranch Stables	1:33.40
2008	Wasserman	6	Jennifer Whitaker	Howard Belvoir	Howard Belvoir	1:35.00
2007	The Great Face	5	Juan Gutierrez	Tom Wenzel	Ron Crockett	1:35.40
2006	Flamethrowintexan	5	Ricky Frazier	Jim Penney	Grasshopper Stable	1:34.40
2005	No Giveaway	4	Juan Gutierrez	Grant Forster Grant Forster Grant Forster is a former English cricketer. Forster was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Seaham, County Durham....	Herman Sarkowsky	1:35.60
2004	Adreamisborn	5	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....	Jerry Hollendorfer Jerry Hollendorfer Jerry Hollendorfer is an American Thoroughbred racehorse owner and trainer. He has the most wins in the history of Northern California race horse trainers....	Franks Farm	1:34.80
2003	Sky Jack Sky Jack Sky Jack is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred and raced by Rene and Margie Lambert, he was sired by Jaklin Klugman and out of the mare Sky Captive, a daughter of the 1986 Breeders' Cup Classic winner Skywalker.After a successful season in 2000, Sky Jack incurred a knee injury that...	7	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....	Doug O'Neill Douglas F. O'Neill Douglas F. "Doug" O'Neill is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.In 1986 he began working in Thoroughbred horse racing as a stable hand and eventually a training assistant...	Ren-Mar Thoroughbreds	1:33.00
2002	Sabertooth	4	Nathan Chaves	Jim Penney	Bob and Bruce Sparling	1:34.60
2001	Irisheyesareflying	5	Iggy Puglisi	John K. Dolan	Dolan Racing Stable	1:35.40
2000	Edneator	4	Gallyn Mitchell	Jim Penney	Homestretch Farm	1:33.20
1999	Budroyale	6	Garrett Gomez Garrett K. Gomez Garrett Keith Gomez is an American thoroughbred jockey.-Early career:Gomez learned to ride by watching his father, Louie, who was a jockey at many tracks in the Southwest United States...	Ted H. West	Jeffrey Sengara	1:34.60
1998	Wild Wonder	4	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...	Greg Gilchrist	V H W Stables	1:33.20
1997	Kid Katabatic	4	Chris Loseth Chris Loseth Chris Loseth is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. At age six, Loseth's family moved to Fort Nelson, British Columbia then in the year before he graduated high school they resettled in Grand Forks. As a boy he was inspired by the success of the great Alberta jockey, Johnny Longden...	Shauna VanOostdam	Ferguson, Russell, VanOostdam	1:34.20
1996	Isitingood	5	David R. Flores David R. Flores David Romero Flores is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.His father was a jockey and an exercise rider in Southern California....	Bob Baffert Bob Baffert Robert A. "Bob" Baffert is an American horse owner and trainer, whose horses have won three Kentucky Derbies, five Preakness Stakes, one Belmont Stakes and two Kentucky Oaks. He graduated from the University of Arizona's with a Bachelor of Science degree. -Early career:Bob Baffert began his...	Mike Pegram & Terry Henn	1:35.60
1995	L J Express	5	Mike Allen	Rod Gibson	Homer Gibson / Judy Parrish.	1:34.60
1994	Want A Winner	4	Vann Belvoir	Charles Gibson	Larry & Veralene Hillis	1:35.20
1993	Adventuresome Love	7	Gary Baze Gary Baze Gary Baze is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. An inductee of the Washington State Racing Hall of Fame, his Hall of Fame profile says of him: "As much as anything, Baze is respected throughout the industry for his honesty, courtesy, sportsmanship and work ethic."A member of the...	Janet Wig	Wolf's Hollow Farm	1:34.60
1992	Bolulight	4	Ron Hansen	Peter Gregory	Empire Farms	1:34.00
1991	Louis Cyphre	5	Gary L. Stevens	Robert J. Frankel	Edmund A. Gann Edmund A. Gann Edmund A. Gann is an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner.-Early life and career:...	1:36.00
1990	Snipledo	4	James Corral	Marion Smith	Robert Resoff	1:35.60
1989	Simply Majestic	5	Ron Hansen	John Parisella	Ted Sabarese	1:34.20
1988	Simply Majestic	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....	Robert J. Frankel	Ted Sabarese	1:33.80
1987	Judge Angelucci	4	Gary Baze Gary Baze Gary Baze is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. An inductee of the Washington State Racing Hall of Fame, his Hall of Fame profile says of him: "As much as anything, Baze is respected throughout the industry for his honesty, courtesy, sportsmanship and work ethic."A member of the...	Charlie Whittingham Charlie Whittingham Charles Edward Whittingham was an American thoroughbred race horse trainer who is one of the most acclaimed trainers in U.S. racing history....	Olin B. Gentry	1:34.20
1986	Skywalker Skywalker (horse) Skywalker was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in Kentucky by Thomas T. Tatham's Oak Cliff Thoroughbreds Ltd., who also bred Sunday Silence, he was foaled and raised at Arthur B. Hancock III's Stone Farm...	4	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:...	Michael Whittingham	Oak Cliff Stable	1:34.20
1985	Chum Salmon	5	Gary Baze Gary Baze Gary Baze is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. An inductee of the Washington State Racing Hall of Fame, his Hall of Fame profile says of him: "As much as anything, Baze is respected throughout the industry for his honesty, courtesy, sportsmanship and work ethic."A member of the...	Larry Ross	Chum Salmon Stable	1:34.00
1984	Travelling Victor Travelling Victor Travelling Victor was a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion racehorse bred by Russell and Lois Bennett at their Flying Horse Farm in Westbank, British Columbia...	5	Chris Loseth Chris Loseth Chris Loseth is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. At age six, Loseth's family moved to Fort Nelson, British Columbia then in the year before he graduated high school they resettled in Grand Forks. As a boy he was inspired by the success of the great Alberta jockey, Johnny Longden...	Robert G. Anderson	Russell J. Bennett	1:34.80
1983	Chinook Pass Chinook Pass (horse) Chinook Pass was an American Champion thoroughbred racehorse. He was named for the stunning mile-high mountain pass that takes motorists to the very foot of 14,411 feet Mount Rainier as they travel between Eastern and Western Washington State, USA.Bred and raced by retired Seattle policeman Ed...	4	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:...	Laurie Anderson	Hi Yu Stable	1:35.60
1982	Pompeii Court	5	Sandy Hawley Sandy Hawley Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...	Laurie Anderson	Steve Lewyk/Marcel Crowe	1:35.60
1981	Trooper Seven	5	Gary Baze Gary Baze Gary Baze is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. An inductee of the Washington State Racing Hall of Fame, his Hall of Fame profile says of him: "As much as anything, Baze is respected throughout the industry for his honesty, courtesy, sportsmanship and work ethic."A member of the...	Eugene Zeren	Eugene Zeren	1:35.40
1980	Trooper Seven	4	Gary Baze Gary Baze Gary Baze is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. An inductee of the Washington State Racing Hall of Fame, his Hall of Fame profile says of him: "As much as anything, Baze is respected throughout the industry for his honesty, courtesy, sportsmanship and work ethic."A member of the...	Eugene Zeren	Eugene Zeren	1:34.40
1979	Always Gallant	5	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...	David La Croix	Joseph W. La Croix	1:33.80
1978	Bad 'N Big	4	Bill Shoemaker	Richard Mandella Richard Mandella Richard Eugene Mandella is a Thoroughbred horse trainer and a member of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame....	Mr. & Mrs. B. Wynne, Jr.	1:34.00