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Barbara Fritchie Handicap Top Three Finishers
This is a listing of the horses that finished in either first, second, or third place and the number of starters in the Barbara Fritchie Handicap (1952-present), a grade 2 American Thoroughbred Sprint race at seven furlongs run on dirt at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 45 on March 3, 2007. In 1982, 1984 and 1985 the race was run in two separate divisions; # signifies two divisions. † designates an American Champion or Eclipse Award winner. References {{reflist External links Laurel Park racetrack Laurel Park Racecourse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Fritchie Handicap
The Barbara Fritchie Stakes is an American race for Thoroughbred horses run at Laurel Park Racecourse in February. A Grade III event, this race is open to fillies and mares age four and up. It is run at seven furlongs on the dirt and offers a purse of $250,000. Originally a handicap, the race is currently run under allowance weight conditions. The race is run in honor of Barbara Fritchie, who was an American patriot during the American Civil War. According to legend, Fritchie, a 95-year-old woman at the time, stood in the street and attempted to block or at least antagonize Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and his troops by waving the Union flag as they marched through Frederick, Maryland, on their campaign to the Battle of Gettysburg.2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 45 on March 3, 2007. The Barbara Fritchie Handicap was run at Bowie Race Course in Bowie, Maryland, from 1952-1984 before being moved to its present location at Laurel Park. The race was a gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Park Racecourse
Laurel Park, formerly Laurel Race Course, is an American thoroughbred racetrack located just outside Laurel, Maryland which opened in 1911. The track is miles in circumference. Its name was changed to "Laurel Race Course" for several decades until returning to the "Laurel Park" designation in 1994. History Laurel Park Racecourse opened October 2, 1911 under the direction of the Laurel Four County Fair. In 1914, New York businessmen and prominent horsemen, Philip J. Dwyer and James Butler purchased the track and appointed Matt Winn as the general manager. In 1918 the field was used by Army Engineers as a training camp before deployment to France. In 1946, a stable fire broke out with 60 horses saved. In 1947, the Maryland Jockey Club, which owned Timonium and Pimlico, purchased Laurel Park from the Butler estate with the idea of shifting the Pimlico meeting to Laurel. After the Maryland General Assembly rejected the idea of replacing Pimlico with Laurel Park, the track was sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel, Maryland
Laurel is a city in Maryland, United States, located midway between Washington and Baltimore on the banks of the Patuxent River. While the city limits are entirely in northern Prince George's County, outlying developments extend into Anne Arundel, Montgomery and Howard counties. Founded as a mill town in the early 19th century, Laurel expanded local industry and was later able to become an early commuter town for Washington and Baltimore workers following the arrival of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1835. Largely residential today, the city maintains a historic district centered on its Main Street, highlighting its industrial past. The Department of Defense is a prominent presence in the Laurel area today, with the Fort Meade Army base, the NSA and Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Laboratory all located nearby. Laurel Park, a thoroughbred horse racetrack, is located just outside the city limits. History Natural history Many dinosaur fossils from the Cretaceous Era ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silmaril (horse)
{{Infobox racehorse , horsename = Silmaril , image = , caption = , sire = Diamond , grandsire = Mr. Prospector , dam = Kattebuck , damsire = Spend A Buck , sex = Mare , foaled = 2001 , country = United States , colour = Dark Brown , breeder = Stephen E. Quick Christopher J. Feifarek , owner = Stephen E. Quick &Christopher J. Feifarek , trainer = Chris Grove , record = 36: 16-7-3 , earnings = $1,032,973 , race = Maryland Million Oaks (2004) Geisha Handicap (2004) Jameela Stakes (2004) Pimlico Breeders' Cup Distaff Handicap (2005) Northview Stallion Station Stakes (2005) Nellie Morse Stakes (2005) Maryland Million Distaff Handicap (2006) Endine Handicap (2007) What A Summer Stakes (2007, 2008) Conniver Stakes (2007) , awards= , honours = , updated= Silmaril (foaled March 31, 2001 in Maryland) is an American thoroughbred mare racehorse. She is sired by stakes winner, Diamond, who in turn was sired by leading North American sire, Mr. Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xtra Heat
Xtra Heat (March 3, 1998—December 2022) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse and broodmare. Despite competing almost exclusively at sprint distances, she was named American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly at the Eclipse Awards for 2001. She was inducted into the National Museum of Racing & Hall of Fame in 2015. Background Xtra Heat was a bay mare bred in Kentucky by Pope McLean. She was by far the most successful horse sired by the Louisiana Derby winner Dixieland Heat. During her racing career she was owned by Kenneth Taylor, Harry Deitchman, and her trainer, John Salzman, Sr. Racing career In 2001, Xtra Heat set a new track record for six furlongs at Pimlico Race Course. Although she ran second by a neck in the 2001 Breeders' Cup Sprint to winner Squirtle Squirt, her performances that year earned Xtra Heat the Eclipse Award as American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. Xtra Heat was retired after campaigning in 2003, having won 26 of her 35 lifetime starts and with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wide Country (horse)
Wide Country (foal in 1988) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who defeated both male and female competitors. She was bred in Maryland by Diana W. Carlson and was a chestnut filly out of the mare Bazooka Babe. Her sire was Magesterial, a multiple stakes winning son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Northern Dancer. Wide Country is best remembered for her win in the slop in the Grade II $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes over stakes winners John's Decision and Nalees Pin on May 17, 1991. Early racing career During Wide Country's two-year-old season, she broke her maiden in her second attempt and followed that up with a win in an allowance race at Laurel Park. Late in her freshman year, she won the Smart Angle Stakes, the Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship Stakes and the Heavenly Cause Stakes. In 1991, Tom Tanner's home bred Wide Country proved to be an indomitable force, running a streak to eight straight wins in stakes races mostly at either Pimlico Race Course or Lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Very One
The Very One (1975–1992) was a millionaire American Thoroughbred racehorse mare. Owned by Helen Polinger and bred by Myrna Firestone and Peter Odell in Kentucky, she is a daughter of One For All, who in turn was sired by Hall of Famer and prominent sire Northern Dancer. He was out of the mare Veruschka sired by Venture. Trained by Stephen A. DiMauro, The Very One is best known for her grade two score in the 1979 Dixie Handicap at Pimlico Race Course. After winning twelve graded stakes races in 1978 and 1979, she won the grade one Santa Barbara Handicap at Santa Anita Park in 1981 at age six. Dixie Handicaps The Very One was stabled and trained in Maryland and was owned by Olney native Helen Polinger. After two years of racing, it was determined by her owner and trainer, Monti "Sonny" Sims imauro trained her later in her career that The Very One was a turf specialist. Mrs. Polinger was raised in Maryland and had always wanted to run a horse in the Preakness Stakes. This w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twixt Stakes
The Twixt Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in November at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. It is a restricted stakes race open to Maryland-bred fillies three years old and up and is run at seven furlongs on the dirt. An ungraded stakes race, it offers a purse of $75,000 as of 2017. The race was named in honor of the filly Twixt, a Maryland-bred Champion each year that she raced, from 1972 through 1975. Mrs. John M. Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. John Merryman, and themselves owned her. She had the highest career earnings of any mare bred in Maryland when she retired, totaling $699,143. She was Maryland-bred "Horse-of-the-Year" in 1973 and 1974. Twixt started in 71 races, and her 18 stakes wins (including the Barbara Fritchie Handicap twice) were also a Maryland-bred record when she retired. Twixt was born in 1969 out of the Restless Native mare Quarter Deck, who was bred by the Merrymans. She was trained by the Merrymans' daughter, Katherine (Katy) Mer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moccasin (horse)
Moccasin (April 16, 1963 – July 1, 1986) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. In a career that lasted from 1965 to 1967, she ran twenty-one times and won eleven races. She remains the only two-year-old filly to be voted United States Horse of the Year. Moccasin won only one race in each of her two subsequent seasons but was an effective performer over sprint distances. Background Moccasin, foaled on April 16, 1963, was a chestnut filly with three white socks, bred by Claiborne Farm. Her sire, Nantallah, was a moderate racehorse by the champion Nasrullah, who in turn was sired by Nearco. Moccasin's dam, the British-bred Rough Shod, was a great success at stud, producing Ridan, Lt. Stevens (Palm Beach Stakes) and the broodmare Thong (ancestor of Sadler's Wells). Moccasin grew to be an unusually large and powerful filly, standing almost 16.2 hands high with a girth of seventy six inches. Racing career 1965: two-year-old season At age two, Moccasin put together ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tosmah
Tosmah (1961–1992) was a champion Thoroughbred race horse. She was the leading American filly of her generation at both two and three years of age. Background Tosmah was bred in Kentucky by Eugene Mori. Her sire was the great Tim Tam (horse), Tim Tam, by Tom Fool out of Two Lea. Many consider Tim Tam's loss of Thoroughbred racing's United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, American Triple Crown only a matter of fate. After winning the first two legs (Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes), he was leading in the Belmont Stakes when he broke down, coming in second. Retired early, he went on as a sire, producing a number of Graded stakes race, stakes winners. Tosmah is considered his very best. Her dam, Cosmah, was the 1974 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year, who also produced Halo (horse), Halo, who sired Sunny's Halo and Sunday Silence. Racing career At the age of two, she started eight times and lost once. For this, she was named the American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Searching (horse)
Searching (1952-1973) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racemare. Foaled at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky where the Wheatley Stable (founded in 1926 by Gladys Mills Phipps and her brother, Ogden L. Mills) bred and raised its horses. After the Second World War, Gladys's son Ogden Phipps purchased a number of horses from the estate of Colonel Edward R. Bradley and his Idle Hour Stock Farm. Among them was the good racing mare Big Hurry. Phipps bred Big Hurry (the racing daughter of Bradley’s favorite stallion, Black Toney, out of Bradley’s broodmare La Troienne) to the fourth winner of the U.S. Triple Crown Champion, War Admiral. From this match came a bay filly he named Searching. Searching raced poorly in her first 20 starts under Hall of Fame trainer James E. Fitzsimmons, Phipps sold her to Ethel Jacobs, the wife of another Hall of Fame trainer, Hirsch Jacobs. Under Hirsch, Searching improved immensely. In her next 69 starts, many of them important stakes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
