The Shine Again Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Pimlico Race Course in

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. Contested over a distance of one mile and one sixteenth (eight and a half furlongs) on the dirt, it is open to fillies and mares three-years-old and up that are Registered Maryland-breds. Run during the latter part of May during Preakness week. The race was named in honor of

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, a fourth generation homebred in Allaire duPont's stable. She was brilliant over three seasons of competition in which she was named Maryland-bred horse of the Year in 2003, Maryland-bred champion older mare in three consecutive years while earning state-bred champion sprinter title in two of those years. She retired after the 2003 season as the ninth leading Maryland-bred money earner of all time, with $1,271,840. From 34 career starts, she won 14 races (eight stakes), was second 10 times (eight stakes) and third in seven others (five stakes).2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 270 on March 3, 2007. Shine Again was a daughter of Wild Again out of the

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mare Shiner. Shine Again was under the guidance of Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkins, she won four stakes races that season including the grade one

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at Saratoga Race Course plus the grade two First Flight Handicap and placed in four other graded stakes races. The very next year she returned to defend her titles in the Ballerina and the First Flight and won both, she also had five graded stakes placings including the grade one

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. She just missed the three-peat in the Ballerina at age six, finishing second by a neck. In that year she won the grade two

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while placing in five other additional graded stakes races.

Records

Speed record: * miles - 1:45.40 - Katie's Love (2006) Most wins by a

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: * 3 - Luis Garcia (2006, 2008 & 2009) Most wins by a trainer: * No trainer has won the Shine Again Stakes more than once

Winners of the Shine Again Stakes

References

{{Reflist Ungraded stakes races in the United States Pimlico Race Course Horse races in Maryland Recurring sporting events established in 2006

Records

Winners of the Shine Again Stakes

See also

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