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Pimlico Spring Handicap

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Pimlico Spring Handicap
Discontinued race
LocationPimlico Race Course
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Inaugurated1917 - 1932
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance1+116 miles (8.5 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds & up

The Pimlico Spring Handicap was a race for Thoroughbred horses run annually from 1917 through 1932 at Pimlico Race Course racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland. The mile and one-sixteenth race on dirt was open to horses of either sex age three and older.

Historic notes

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For most of its duration, the event attracted top-level horses such as inaugural winner Pennant, the 1913 Belmont Futurity winner and sire of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Equipoise.[1] Others include 1918 winner Cudgel, who beat that year's American Champion Older Male Horse, Omar Khayyam.[2] In 1921 Sandy Beal won the Pimlico Spring Handicap beating 1920 Kentucky Derby winner Paul Jones,[3] and 1922 winner Exterminator had already won a Kentucky Derby and by the time he retired from racing had been named a five-time Champion as well as a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.[4]

The Pimlico Spring Handicap was a victim of the Great Depression in the United States which brought much consolidation of races at every track and a dramatic reduction in purse money.[citation needed]

Records

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Speed record: (at 1 1/16 miles)

Most wins by a jockey:

  • 2 - Fred Stevens (1924, 1930)

Most wins by a trainer:

Most wins by an owner:

Winners

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Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Dist.
(Miles)
Time
Win$
1932 Sun Meadow 4 Jimmy Smith Thomas D. Rodrock Katherine E. Hitt 1116 M 1:51.20 $2,910
1931 Frisius 5 Anthony Pascuma George Tappen Belair Stud 1116 M 1:47.60 $2,750
1930 Grey Coat 4 Fred Stevens J. Woods Garth Samuel Ross 1 M, 70 yds 1:43.80 $7,280
1929 Sortie 4 Pete Walls Max Hirsch A. Charles Schwartz 1116 M 1:46.60 $7,230
1928 Canter 5 Steve O'Donnell Harry Rites J. Edwin Griffith 1116 M 1:46.20 $7,430
1927 Dangerous 5 Edgar Barnes Walter A. Carter Rosedale Stable 1116 M 1:47.20 $7,100
1926 Edisto 4 Henry Erickson William H. Bringloe Seagram Stables 1116 M 1:45.00 $6,900
1925 General Thatcher 5 Louis Schaefer Preston M. Burch Nevada Stock Farm 1116 M 1:45.20 $6,070
1924 Spot Cash 4 Fred Stevens James W. Healy Albert C. Bostwick 1116 M 1:48.00 $6,150
1923 Bunting 4 Linus McAtee James G. Rowe Sr. Harry Payne Whitney 1116 M 1:45.40 $6,250
1922 Exterminator 7 Albert Johnson Eugene Wayland Willis Sharpe Kilmer 1116 M 1:45.80 $3,650
1921 Sandy Beal 4 Steve Wida Robert B. Jackson W. S. Murray 1116 M 1:52.00 $3,650
1920 Boniface 5 Earl Sande H. Guy Bedwell J. K. L. Ross 1116 M 1:46.80 $3,650
1919 Royce Rools 4 Tommy Nolan Andrew G. Blakely Thomas H. Cross 1116 M 1:48.40 $3,650
1918 Cudgel 4 Lawrence Lyke H. Guy Bedwell J. K. L. Ross 1 M, 70 yds 1:43.40 $4,150
1917 Pennant 6 Frank Robinson Albert Simons Harry Payne Whitney 1 M, 70 yds 1:46.00 $2,200

References

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