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Dixie Stakes 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 Dinner Party Stakes, at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the List of municipalities in Maryland, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, and List of United States cities by popula ..., an American grade 2 thoroughbred horse race run at 1-1/8 miles on the turf. The race was the second leg of the former "Triple Turf.".2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 52 on March 3, 2007. A † designates a Breeders Cup winner. References {{reflist External linksPimlico racetrack Lists of horse racing results Pimlico Race Course ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dixie Stakes
The Dinner Party Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid-May at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the eighth-oldest graded stakes race in the United States and the oldest stakes race in Maryland and all of the Mid-Atlantic states. The race is open to horses age three and up and is run one and one-eighth miles on the turf. Currently a Grade II stakes race with a purse of $250,000, at one time the Dixie was a very important race that drew the top horses from across North America. History First run as the "Dinner Party Stakes" when Pimlico Race Course opened in 1870, it was named for the 1868 dinner party in Saratoga Springs, New York where Maryland Governor Oden Bowie and others met and wagered, resulting in the building of the Pimlico race course for thoroughbred race horses. The inaugural event was won by Preakness, for whom the Preakness Stakes was named. In 1871, it was called the Reunion Stakes and was won in a walkover by Harry Basse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nassipour
Nassipour (1980 – 7 May 1994) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and a Leading sire in Australia. He was bred in Kentucky by the Aga Khan. His sire, Blushing Groom, was the 1977 European Champion Three-Year-old and the 1989 Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland. Nassipour's dam was Alama, a daughter of the very good runner Aureole, who was owned by Queen Elizabeth II. Aureole's wins include the 1954 Coronation Cup and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. At stud, Aureole sired 1960 Epsom Derby winner, St. Paddy. Racing career Nassipour was sent to his owner's training facility in Ireland at age two but was sold in late 1983 to American Cot Campbell for his Dogwood Stable racing partnership. Brought back to North America for the 1984 turf racing season, Nassipour did not have a Graded stakes race win but ran second in the Grade I (G1) Sword Dancer Invitational Handicap, G3 Knickerbocker Handicap, and G1 Bowling Green Handicap. He also finished third in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pompoon
Pompoon (1934–1939) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was voted American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt for 1936. Owned by the prominent Philadelphia contractor and majority owner and president of CBS, Jerome H. Louchheim, Pompoon was trained by Cyrus Field Clarke at age two and three. The colt won the Belmont Futurity Stakes and defeated War Admiral to win the National Stallion Stakes. At age three, he finished second in both the 1937 Kentucky Derby and 1937 Preakness Stakes to War Admiral who went on to win the Triple Crown. Former top-level jockey and future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Johnny Loftus took over as Pompoon's trainer in 1938. His major wins for Loftus came in Dixie Handicap at Pimlico Race Course and the San Carlos Handicap at California's Santa Anita Park. Pompoon died on November 14, 1939 as the result of a kidney infection and twisted intestine The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacola
{{Infobox racehorse , horsename = Jacola , image = , caption = , sire = Jacopo , grandsire = Sansovino , dam = La France , damsire = Sir Gallahad , sex = Filly , foaled = 1935 , country = United States , colour = Bay , breeder = Arthur B. Hancock , owner = Nancy Carr Friendly , trainer = Selby L. Burch , record = 25: 11-5-4 , earnings = US$70,060 , race = Selima Stakes (1937)Washington Handicap (1938)Maryland Handicap (1938)Laurel Stakes (1938)Victorian Handicap (1939) , awards = American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly (1937) , honours = , updated= Jacola (1935–1959) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by Arthur B. Hancock, she was sired by the British import Jacopo, a son of the 1924 Epsom Derby winner, Sansovino. Jacola was out of the mare La France, a daughter of Sir Gallahad, who was the leading sire in North America in 1930, 1933, 1934, and 1940 and who sired 1930 U.S. Triple Crown winner Gallant Fox. A year following Jacola's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mioland
Mioland (1937–1951) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in Oregon by H. W. Ray, he was out of the mare Iolanda. His German-born sire was Mio D'Arezzo, a winner of the Deutsches St. Leger who had been imported to stand at stud in the United States. Early career At age two, Mioland was regularly ridden by Earl Dew, who won several races aboard the colt at California racetracks. Owner H. W. Ray sold Mioland to Charles Howard as a three-year-old. He was trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer Tom Smith. In the 1940 U.S. Triple Crown series, under jockey Lester Balaski, Mioland ran fourth to winner Gallahadion in the Kentucky Derby, then second to Bimelech in the Preakness Stakes. He did not run in the Belmont Stakes but that year he won the Potomac and Westchester Handicaps in the Northeastern United States, then the prestigious American Derby at Chicago then in California, the San Juan Capistrano Handicap. Later career Mioland remai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whirlaway
Whirlaway (April 2, 1938 – April 6, 1953) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who is the fifth winner of the American Triple Crown. He also won the Travers Stakes after his Triple Crown sweep to become the first and only horse to win all four races. Whirlaway was sired by English Derby winner Blenheim, out of the broodmare Dustwhirl. Whirlaway was bred at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Trained by Ben A. Jones and ridden by Eddie Arcaro, Whirlaway swept the Triple in 1941. He holds the record for the longest winning margin in the Kentucky Derby with fellow Triple Crown winner Assault, as they both won the Derby by 8 lengths. Whirlaway was widely known as "Mr. Longtail" because his tail was especially long and thick and it would blow far out behind him during races, flowing dramatically in the wind. He was voted the American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt in 1940 by ''Turf & Sports Digest'' magazine. The rival ''Daily Racing Form'' award was won by Our Boots. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armed
Armed (May, 1941–1964) was an American Thoroughbred gelding race horse who was the American Horse of the Year in 1947 and Champion Older Male Horse in both 1946 and 1947. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1963. Background Armed was sired by the great stakes winner Bull Lea, the sire of Citation. His dam was Armful, whose sire was Belmont Stakes winner Chance Shot and whose grandsire was the great Fair Play. Besides being small for his age and very headstrong, Armed had the habits of biting and kicking hay out of his handler's pitchfork. Since he was also practically untrainable, his trainer, Ben A. Jones, sent him back to Calumet Farm to be gelded and turned out to grow up. He returned to the track late in his two-year-old season and resumed training. Racing career His first start was as a three-year-old the following February, and he won at Hialeah Park by eight lengths. He won again less than a week later but then won only once i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assault (horse)
Assault (March 28, 1943 – September 1, 1971) "'46 Triple Crown winner, Assault, dies at age 28", ''Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal'', September 2, 1971, p. C-5 was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who is the seventh winner of the American Triple Crown and the only Texas-bred winner of the Triple Crown. Early life Foaled at King Ranch in Texas, Assault was sired by Bold Venture, who had won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. His dam was the unraced Igual, by Horse of the Year Equipoise. Assault's third dam was Masda, who was a full sister to Man o' War. His full-brother was Air Lift, who broke a leg in his debut race and was destroyed. Described as being "on the delicate side" by his later jockey, Eddie Arcaro, Assault was plagued with injuries and illnesses from the start. As a youngster, he stepped on what is believed to have been a surveyor's stake, driving it through his front right hoof. The hoof was permanently deformed, and the colt developed a limp to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stymie (horse)
Stymie (April 4, 1941 − 1962) was an American Thoroughbred Thoroughbred horse race, racehorse. Background Stymie, a chestnut horse with a narrow white Horse markings, blaze was bred by Max Hirsch and was born on King Ranch in Texas. As a young horse, Stymie possessed so terrible a disposition that his ability to race was hampered; his trainer did not see much in him. Therefore, two of Stymie's first three starts were claiming races. On June 2, 1943, Stymie was bought by Hirsch Jacobs, one of the time's leading trainers. Jacobs claimed the horse for $1,500 for his wife Ethel Jacobs. Stymie raced ten more times before winning again. At that point, his record consisted of seven wins out of fifty starts. Racing career and wins At age two, Stymie lost every race he ran in except one. He also placed in the Ardsley Handicap and showed in the Thomas K. Lynch Memorial Handicap. At age three, he lost most of his races. However, he came in second in the Wood Memorial Stakes and third i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crafty Admiral
Crafty Admiral (June 6, 1948 – 1972) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was the 1952 American Champion Older Male Horse and Leading broodmare sire in North America in 1978. Background A very late foal, Crafty Admiral's dam, Admiral's Lady, died after producing the colt. He was purchased for $6,500 as a yearling by Hugh Grant at a special auction of Harry Guggenheim horses held in the paddock at Belmont Park. In late 1951, Grant sold him to Charles and Frances Cohen, a husband-and-wife team who raced under the name of Charfran Stable. Racing career Crafty Admiral set a new track record for seven furlongs in winning the 1952 Palm Beach Handicap at Hialeah Park Race Track. At stud Retired to stud in Kentucky in 1954, Crafty Admiral sired twenty-six stakes winners including Crafty Lace, Crafty Khale and Admiral's Voyage who was the damsire of Danzig. Through his daughter, Won't Tell You, he is the damsire of 1978 U.S. Triple Crown champion Affirmed whose earnings h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Boing
Master or masters may refer to: Ranks or titles * Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans *Grandmaster (chess), National Master, International Master, FIDE Master, Candidate Master, all ranks of chess player * Grandmaster (martial arts) or Master, an honorary title * Grand master (order), a title denoting the head of an order or knighthood * Grand Master (Freemasonry), the head of a Grand Lodge and the highest rank of a Masonic organization * Maestro, an orchestral conductor, or the master within some other musical discipline *Master, a title of Jesus in the New Testament *Master or shipmaster, the sea captain of a merchant vessel *Master (college), head of a college *Master (form of address), an English honorific for boys and young men * Master (judiciary), a judicial official in the courts of common law jurisdictions * Master mariner, a licensed mariner who is q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turbo Jet II
In an internal combustion engine, a turbocharger (often called a turbo) is a forced induction device that is powered by the flow of exhaust gases. It uses this energy to compress the intake gas, forcing more air into the engine in order to produce more power for a given displacement. The current categorisation is that a turbocharger is powered by the kinetic energy of the exhaust gasses, whereas a is mechanically powered (usually by a belt from the engine's crankshaft). However, up until the mid-20th century, a turbocharger was called a "turbosupercharger" and was considered a type of supercharger. History Prior to the invention of the turbocharger,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
