Modesty Handicap
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The Modesty Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race
Thoroughbred horse race
Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies. There are two forms of the sport: Flat racing and National Hunt racing...

 run annually at Arlington Park Racetrack
Arlington Park
Arlington Park is a horse race track in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois. Horse racing in the Chicago region has been a popular sport since the early days of the city in the 1830s, and at one time Chicago had more horse racing tracks than any other major metropolitan area...

 in Arlington Heights, Illinois
Arlington Heights, Illinois
Arlington Heights is a village in Cook and Lake counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. A suburb of Chicago, it lies about 25 miles northwest of the city's downtown. The population was 75,101 at the 2010 census....

 near Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

.

A Grade III
Graded stakes race
A graded stakes race is a term applied since 1973 by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay...

 race contested over a distance of 1 3/16 miles on turf
Grass
Grasses, or more technically graminoids, are monocotyledonous, usually herbaceous plants with narrow leaves growing from the base. They include the "true grasses", of the Poaceae family, as well as the sedges and the rushes . The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns ...

, it is open to fillies
Filly
A filly is a young female horse too young to be called a mare. There are several specific definitions in use.*In most cases filly is a female horse under the age of four years old....

 and mares
Mare (horse)
A mare is an adult female horse or other equine.In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse age three and younger. However, in Thoroughbred horse racing, a mare is defined as a female horse more than four years old; in harness racing a mare is a...

 aged three and older. Run during the third week of July, the event currently offers a purse of $150,000.

Inaugurated in 1942 at the old Washington Park Race Track
Washington Park Race Track
Washington Park Race Track was a popular horse racing venue in the Chicago metropolitan area from 1884 until 1977. It had two locations during its existence. It was first situated in what is the current location of the Washington Park Subdivision of the Woodlawn community area of Chicago in Cook...

 as a race for For three-year-old fillies , the following year it was made open to both fillies and older mares. Until 1951, it was run as the Modesty Stakes. It was raced on dirt from 1942 through1955, 1958 through 1965, and again in 1996.

It has been run at various distances:
  • 1 mile : 1942, 1944-1946, 1952, 1966
  • 3/4 mile (6 furlongs) : 1947-1951, 1953-1954, 1958-1962
  • 7/8 mile (7 furlongs) : 1943, 1963-1965
  • 1 1/16 miles (8.5 furlongs) : 1955-1957, 1967-1968,1986
  • 1 1/8 miles (9 furlongs) : 1987
  • 1 3/16 miles (9.5 furlongs) : 1980-1985, 1989-present


The race was hosted by Washington Park Race Track
Washington Park Race Track
Washington Park Race Track was a popular horse racing venue in the Chicago metropolitan area from 1884 until 1977. It had two locations during its existence. It was first situated in what is the current location of the Washington Park Subdivision of the Woodlawn community area of Chicago in Cook...

 from 1942 throgh 1945 and from 1968 through 1961. Hawthorne Race Course
Hawthorne Race Course
Hawthorne Race Course is a race track for horse racing in Stickney/Cicero, Illinois, near Chicago.The oldest continually-run family-owned racetrack in North America, in 2009 the Horseplayers Association of North America introduced a rating system for 65 Thoroughbred racetracks in North America...

 hosted it in 1985. The race was named in honor of Modesty, a filly who beat her male
Colt (horse)
A colt is a young male horse, under the age of four. The term "colt" is often confused with foal, which refers to a horse of either sex under one year of age....

 counterparts to win the 1884 inaugural running of the American Derby
American Derby
The American Derby is a Thoroughbred horse race in the United States run annually at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The inaugural American Derby was held at the city's old Washington Park race track and raced there until 1905 when the facility was closed and the track demolished....

 at Washington Park Race Track under African-American U.S. Racing Hall of Fame
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers...

 jockey, Isaac Burns Murphy
Isaac Burns Murphy
Isaac Burns Murphy was an African-American Hall of Fame jockey, who is considered one of the greatest riders in American Thoroughbred horse racing history. Murphy won three Kentucky Derbies.-Early life:...

.

In 1966, the Modesty Handicap was run in two divisions.There was no race from 1969 through 1979 inclusive, nor in 1988, 1995, 1998 and 1999.

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 1 3/16 miles)
  • 1:53.80 - Fantasia (GB) (2011)


Most wins:
  • 2 - Sickle's Image (1951, 1954)
  • 2 - Indian Maid
    Indian Maid
    Indian Maid was an American Thoroughbred filly racehorse who won three consecutive editions of the Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs....

     (1960, 1961)
  • 2 - Gaily Gaily (1989, 1990)


Most wins by an owner:
  • 3 - Calumet Farm
    Calumet Farm
    Calumet Farm is a Thoroughbred breeding and training farm established in 1924 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States by William Monroe Wright, founding owner of the Calumet Baking Powder Company. Calumet is located in the heart of Lexington's blue grass country, the finest horse breeding region in...

     (1948, 1952, 1959)


Most wins by a jockey
Jockey
A jockey is an athlete who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing.-Etymology:...

:
  • 3 - Rene Douglas (2002, 2003, 2008)
  • 3 - Earlie Fires
    Earlie Fires
    Earlie Stancel Fires is a retired United States' Racing Hall of Fame jockey.Fires began riding professionally in 1964 and led all American apprentices in wins that year with 224. He retired on September 21, 2008 having won 6,470 races at racetracks across North America...

     (1982, 1986, 1993)


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...

:
  • 3 - Harry Trotsek (1953, 1956, 1958)
  • 3 - William I. Mott (1989, 1990, 2005)

Winners

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Distance
(Miles)
Time
2011 Fantasia 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....

Jonathan E. Sheppard
Jonathan E. Sheppard
Jonathan E. Sheppard is a Hall of Fame trainer in American Thoroughbred horse racing....

Augustin Stable 1-3/16 1:53.80
2010 Tuscan Evening 5 Rafael Bejarano 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....

William de Burgh 1-3/16 1:55.11
2009 Pure Clan 4 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 1-3/16 1:55.27
2008 Communique 4 Rene Douglas George R. Arnold II G. Watts Humphrey, Jr. 1-3/16 1:58.89
2007 Bridge Game 4 Jeremy Rose
Jeremy Rose
Jeremy Rose is an American Thoroughbred racehorse jockey. He began his career as a professional rider at Delaware Park in Wilmington, Delaware and in 2001 was his breakout year and he was voted the United States' Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey.In 2005, Rose guided Afleet Alex, to...

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...

Elizabeth H. Alexander 1-3/16 1:54.62
2006 Chic Dancer 5 Christopher Emigh
Christopher Emigh
Christopher Alan Emigh is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He earned his first win as a professional at Evangeline Downs in 1989. The winner of more than 3,000 career races, he has won a riding title at Hawthorne Race Course seven times and at Arlington Park in 2006...

Christine K. Janks S.D. Brilie Ltd. Partnership 1-3/16 1:57.48
2005 Noisettes 5 Cornelio Velasquez
Cornelio Velásquez
Cornelio H. Velásquez is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He was introduced to horse racing at age fifteen by trainer Carlos Salazar Guardia in his native Panama and enrolled in the national jockey school...

William I. Mott Haras Santa Maria Aras S.A. 1-3/16 1:57.30
2004 Bedanken 5 Donald Pettinger Donnie K. Von Hemel Pin Oak Stable LLC 1-3/16 1:57.00
2003 Owsley 5 Rene Douglas Randy Schulhofer Arthur B. Hancock III
Arthur B. Hancock III
Arthur Boyd Hancock III is an American owner of Thoroughbred racehorses, the owner of Stone Farm, a 2,000 acre horse breeding operation in Paris, Kentucky, and a composer of Bluegrass music....

1-3/16 1:55.06
2002 England's Legend 5 Rene Douglas 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...

Edouard de Rothschild
Edouard de Rothschild
Edouard de Rothschild may refer to:* Édouard Alphonse de Rothschild , French banker* Édouard Etienne de Rothschild , French financier & horseman...

1-3/16 1:55.69
2001 Ioya Two 6 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...

Chris M. Block Team Block 1-3/16 1:55.47
2000 Wade For Me 5 Christopher Emigh
Christopher Emigh
Christopher Alan Emigh is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He earned his first win as a professional at Evangeline Downs in 1989. The winner of more than 3,000 career races, he has won a riding title at Hawthorne Race Course seven times and at Arlington Park in 2006...

Harvey L. Vanier
Harvey L. Vanier
Harvey L. Vanier is a trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. With his wife Nancy Aiken-Vanier, they own and breed racehorses on their Fairberry Farm in Waterloo, Illinois.-References:* *...

Nancy A. Vanier 1-3/16 1:57.06
1999 no race
1998 no race
1997 War Thief 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....

Clinton Stuart Lane Thoroughbreds 1-3/16 1:57.47
1996 Belle of Cozzene 4 Donald Pettinger Steve Hobby B. & J. Smicklas 1-3/16 1:58.24
1995 no race
1994 Assert Oneself 4 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...

Mike Chambers Three Sisters Stable 1-3/16 1:56.01
1993 Hero's Love 5 Earlie Fires
Earlie Fires
Earlie Stancel Fires is a retired United States' Racing Hall of Fame jockey.Fires began riding professionally in 1964 and led all American apprentices in wins that year with 224. He retired on September 21, 2008 having won 6,470 races at racetracks across North America...

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...

1-3/16 1:55.31
1992 Tango Charlie 3 Abner G. Sorrows, Jr. Kenneth Hoffman T. Canonie, Jr. 1-3/16 1:58.79
1991 Lady Shirl 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....

P. Noel Hickey Irish Acres Farm 1-3/16 1:56.53
1990 Gaily Gaily 7 Mike E. Smith William I. Mott Diana M. Firestone 1-3/16 1:55.40
1989 Gaily Gaily 6 Julie Krone
Julie Krone
Julie Krone , is a retired American jockey. In 1993, she became the first female jockey to win a Triple Crown race when she captured the Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair...

William I. Mott Diana M. Firestone 1-3/16 1:58.20
1988 no race
1987 Spruce Luck 6 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...

Doug Tribert C. Kenimer 1-1/8 1:51.60
1986 Zenobia Empress 5 Earlie Fires
Earlie Fires
Earlie Stancel Fires is a retired United States' Racing Hall of Fame jockey.Fires began riding professionally in 1964 and led all American apprentices in wins that year with 224. He retired on September 21, 2008 having won 6,470 races at racetracks across North America...

Joseph M. Bollero R. Fortune, Jr. 1-1/16 1:44.00
1985 Kapalua Butterfly 4 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...

Harvey L. Vanier
Harvey L. Vanier
Harvey L. Vanier is a trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. With his wife Nancy Aiken-Vanier, they own and breed racehorses on their Fairberry Farm in Waterloo, Illinois.-References:* *...

Tom Gentry 1-3/16 1:55.00
1984 Jay's Sue 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...

Jerry Calvin C. P. Blake 1-3/16 2:01.20
1983 Dana Calqui 5 Frank Lovato, Jr.
Frank Lovato, Jr.
Frank Lovato, Jr. is a retired American Thoroughbred jockey.- Career :During a career that spanned 25 years Lovato rode a total of 15,603 mounts, winning on 1,686 of them and finishing in the money on another 3,506. The horses he rode earned a total of $41,795,267...

Stephen L. DiMauro Dogwood Farm 1-3/16 2:01.40
1982 Office Wife 5 Earlie Fires
Earlie Fires
Earlie Stancel Fires is a retired United States' Racing Hall of Fame jockey.Fires began riding professionally in 1964 and led all American apprentices in wins that year with 224. He retired on September 21, 2008 having won 6,470 races at racetracks across North America...

Willard C. Freeman Helen Hertz Hexter
John D. Hertz
John Daniel Hertz, Sr. was an American businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and philanthropist.-Biography:...

1-3/16 1:58.20
1981 Innocent Victim 3 Roger Cox
Roger Cox
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George J. Getz Friedman & P. Teinowitz 1-3/16 1:59.00
1980 Allison's Gal 4 Michael Morgan Steve Morguelan Adrienne Krumhorn 1-3/16 2:01.20
1968 Ludham 4 Jacinto Vasquez
Jacinto Vásquez
Jacinto Vásquez is a retired Hall of Fame thoroughbred jockey. He rode two Kentucky Derby winners, Foolish Pleasure in 1975 and Genuine Risk in 1980, but may be best known as the regular jockey for the great filly Ruffian.-Biography:...

Frank I. Wright Happy Hill Farm 1-1/16 1:44.40
1967 Amerivan 5 Ron Turcotte
Ron Turcotte
Ron Joseph Morel Turcotte, CM is a Hall of Fame thoroughbred race horse jockey best known as the rider of Secretariat, winner of the U.S. Triple Crown in 1973....

Joseph H. Pierce, Jr. William S. Woodside 1-1/16 1:46.20
1966 Margarethen 4 James Nichols Charles P. Sanborn Ernest H. Woods 1 1:37.40
1966 Treasure Chest 3 John Beebe
John Beebe
John Beebe is a Jungian analyst in practice in San Francisco. He received degrees from Harvard College and the University of Chicago medical school. He is a past President of the C.G...

Joseph H. Pierce, Jr. David Shaer 1 1:37.20
1965 Isaduchess 4 Kennard Knapp Edward I. Kelly, Sr.
Edward I. Kelly, Sr.
Edward Ignatius "Eddie" Kelly, Sr. was a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.-Biography:Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the younger brother, by two years, of Thomas J. Kelly. In the mid 1930s, the brothers went to work for J.W.Y. Martin, a trainer and racehorse stable proprietor who owned Snow Hill...

Brookfield Farm 7/8 1:23.20
1964 Alecee 5 Walter Blum
Walter Blum
Walter "Mousey" Blum is a retired Hall of Fame jockey.A horse racing fan from boyhood, in his teens Blum began working as a racetrack hotwalker. Despite being blind in his right eye from the age of two, in 1953 he embarked on a career as a jockey, riding his first winner on July 29 at Saratoga...

John J. Gavin, Jr. Forest H. Lindsay 7/8 1:23.00
1963 Hushaby 4 Bill Hartack
Bill Hartack
William John Hartack Jr. was a Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania.Referred to by the media as both "Bill" and "Willie" during his racing career, Hartack grew up on his widowed father's farm in the Blacklick...

Chuck R. Werstler Mary V. Fisher 7/8 1:23.00
1962 Goldflower 4 Herberto Hinojosa Chuck R. Werstler Mary V. Fisher 3/4 1:10.40
1961 Indian Maid
Indian Maid
Indian Maid was an American Thoroughbred filly racehorse who won three consecutive editions of the Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs....

5 Johnny Sellers
Johnny Sellers
Johnny Sellers was an American jockey. Born in Los Angeles, but raised in Oklahoma, he began his professional career in 1955 and between 1959 and 1968 rode in six Kentucky Derbys. He won the prestigious race aboard Carry Back in 1961 then riding the colt to victory in the Preakness Stakes...

Howard C. Hoffman Mary D. Keim 3/4 1:09.80
1960 Indian Maid
Indian Maid
Indian Maid was an American Thoroughbred filly racehorse who won three consecutive editions of the Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs....

4 John L. Rotz
John L. Rotz
John L. Rotz is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey and an active World Champion in Western riding competitions....

Elmer Heubeck, Jr. Mary D. Keim 3/4 1:09.60
1959 A. Glitter 4 Chris Rogers
Chris Rogers
Chris Rogers is a British television journalist. He is currently working freelance with media organisations based in London.Rogers debuted on BBC Radio 5's youth programme, Vibe. Presenting Buzz FM in Birmingham in 1990, then in 1992 he presented on Hallam FM where he anchored the evening show 'No...

Horace A. Jones
Horace A. Jones
Horace A. "Jimmy" Jones was an American thoroughbred horse trainer.The son of Hall of Fame horse trainer Ben A. Jones, Jimmy Jones was born in Parnell, Missouri...

Calumet Farm
Calumet Farm
Calumet Farm is a Thoroughbred breeding and training farm established in 1924 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States by William Monroe Wright, founding owner of the Calumet Baking Powder Company. Calumet is located in the heart of Lexington's blue grass country, the finest horse breeding region in...

3/4 1:10.00
1958 Melody Mine 3 Richard L. Barnett Harry Trotsek Hasty House Farm 3/4 1:10.80
1957 Grecian Ayr 4 Larry Gilligan Jimmy Wallace Agoura Stock Farm 1-1/16 1:43.60
1956 Queen Hopeful 5 John Adams Harry Trotsek Hasty House Farm 1-1/16 1:44.80
1955 Insouciant 3 Billie Fisk Howard Wells Dr. Eslie Asbury 1-1/16 1:43.40
1954 Sickle's Image 6 Douglas Dodson
Douglas Dodson
Douglas Allan Dodson was a Champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Douglas Dodson was born in Pickardville, Alberta, Canada, the son of James Floyd and Emma Dodson. His family moved to a ranch in Elk River, Idaho when he was still a child and as a small boy he learned to ride horses...

Clarence Hartwick Clarence Hartwick 3/4 1:10.00
1953 Bella Figura 4 Don Wagner Harry Trotsek Brownell Combs 3/4 1:10.20
1952 Real Delight
Real Delight
Real Delight , was an American Thoroughbred race horse bred by the famous Calumet Farm of Lexington, Kentucky.A filly sired by one of America’s foundation stallions, the influential Bull Lea , Real Delight’s dam was the stakes winning Blue Delight Real Delight (1949-1969), was an American...

3 Eddie Arcaro
Eddie Arcaro
George Edward Arcaro , known professionally as Eddie Arcaro, was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who won more American classic races than any other jockey in history and is the only rider to have won the U.S. Triple Crown twice...

Ben A. Jones
Ben A. Jones
Benjamin Allyn Jones was a thoroughbred horse trainer.Born in Parnell, Missouri, Ben Jones went into the business of breeding and training of thoroughbreds during the first decade of the 20th century, racing his horses on small circuits in the American West and in Mexico...

Calumet Farm
Calumet Farm
Calumet Farm is a Thoroughbred breeding and training farm established in 1924 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States by William Monroe Wright, founding owner of the Calumet Baking Powder Company. Calumet is located in the heart of Lexington's blue grass country, the finest horse breeding region in...

1 1:35.60
1951 Sickle's Image 3 Charles Swain Clarence Hartwick Clarence Hartwick 3/4 1:10.80
1950 Myrtle Charm 4 Glen Lasswell Tom Smith Maine Chance Farm
Maine Chance Farm
Maine Chance Farm was an American Thoroughbred horse racing stable in Lexington, Kentucky owned by cosmetics tycoon, Elizabeth Arden.Elizabeth Arden raced under the nom de course "Mr. Nightingale" until 1943 when she adopted the name Maine Chance Farm from her health spa in Mount Vernon, Maine...

3/4 1:10.00
1949 No Strings 3 Fred Smith
Fred A. Smith
Fred A. Smith was a Cuban American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing best remembered for narrowly missing victory in the 1940 U.S. Triple Crown....

Howard C. Hoffman Mrs. John Marsch 3/4 1:10.00
1948 Bewitch
Bewitch (horse)
Bewitch was a Thoroughbred race horse born in 1945 at Calumet Farm, Kentucky, United States in the same crop in which the stallion Bull Lea produced Citation and Coaltown. Each of these exceptional Bull Lea foals were, in time, inaugurated into the Thoroughbred Hall of Fame...

3 Hedley Woodhouse
Hedley Woodhouse
Hedley John Woodhouse was a Canadian jockey who won the New York state riding championship in 1953. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he began his racing career there in 1937 at the Lansdowne Park racetrack as an apprentice with A.C.T. Stock Farm owned by industrialist Austin C. Taylor...

Horace A. Jones
Horace A. Jones
Horace A. "Jimmy" Jones was an American thoroughbred horse trainer.The son of Hall of Fame horse trainer Ben A. Jones, Jimmy Jones was born in Parnell, Missouri...

Calumet Farm
Calumet Farm
Calumet Farm is a Thoroughbred breeding and training farm established in 1924 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States by William Monroe Wright, founding owner of the Calumet Baking Powder Company. Calumet is located in the heart of Lexington's blue grass country, the finest horse breeding region in...

3/4 1:10.20
1947 Sea Snack 4 Manuel N. Gonzalez James A. Healey Christiana Stables 3/4 1:11.60
1946 Athene 3 Warren Mehrtens
Warren Mehrtens
Warren Mehrtens was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey best known for winning the U.S. Triple Crown in 1946....

Max Hirsch
Max Hirsch
Maximilian J. "Max" Hirsch was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Born in Fredericksburg, Texas, Hirsch became one of the most successful trainers in Thoroughbred horse racing history. He spent part of his formative years working as a groom and jockey at Morris Ranch in...

Edward Lasker
Edward Lasker (businessman)
Edward Lasker was an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner.He was one of the three children of Flora Warner and her husband, Albert Davis Lasker , the owner of Lord & Thomas, a highly successful Chicago advertising agency, who was also the owner of the Chicago Cubs Major League...

1 1:36.00
1945 War Date 3 John Adams Tom Smith Maine Chance Farm
Maine Chance Farm
Maine Chance Farm was an American Thoroughbred horse racing stable in Lexington, Kentucky owned by cosmetics tycoon, Elizabeth Arden.Elizabeth Arden raced under the nom de course "Mr. Nightingale" until 1943 when she adopted the name Maine Chance Farm from her health spa in Mount Vernon, Maine...

1 1:38.80
1944 Gold Princess 5 Jesse Higley David V. McClure David V. McClure 1 1:39.40
1943 Burgoo Maid 3 Guy Burns Homer C. Pardue
Homer C. Pardue
Homer Chesley Pardue was an American trainer and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses.Born in Louisville, Kentucky, across the street from Churchill Downs, Homer Pardue began working in the racing industry as an exercise rider at the famous track while still a fourteen-year-old schoolboy...

Ruth Sidell 7/8 1:27.40
1942 Lotopoise 3 Steve Brooks
Steve Brooks
Steve Brooks or Stephen Brooks may refer to:*Steve Brooks , American Hall of Fame jockey*Steve Brooks , American folk singer/songwriter*Steve Brooks , British statistician...

Kenneth Osborne Hal Price Headley 1 1:37.80
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