The Squan Song Stakes is a race for
Thoroughbred
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horses
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held in early November at
Laurel Park in
Maryland
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. The ungraded stakes race is open to three-year-olds, is run at one mile on the dirt, and offers a purse of $75,000.
This race is named for
Squan Song (born 1981), who was a four-time Maryland Bred champion, from 1984 to 1987 and earned "Horse-of-the-Year" honors in 1985. A winner of 18 of her 36 career starts, with 12 placements (ten in stakes races), the mare earned $898,444, placing her fourth on the all-time list of top Maryland-bred money winners at the time of her retirement. She was sold by her breeder Linda Green, for $125,000 as a weanling at Keeneland.
Squan Song campaigned under the colors of owners Bob Brennan's Due ProcessStable, winning a total of 14 stakes races, including the Grade 2
Cotillion Handicap
The Cotillion Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Parx Racing and Casino in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. It is run in late September or early October as a prelude to the annual Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships ...
at
Philadelphia Park
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, the Rare Treat Stakes and the
Affectionately Handicap at
Aqueduct Racetrack
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. She set track records for a mile and one sixteenth in the
Meadowlands Racetrack
The Meadowlands Racetrack (currently referred to as Meadowlands Racing & Entertainment) is a horse racing track at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. The track hosts both thoroughbred racing and harness ...
's Honey Bee Handicap and in
Garden State Park Racetrack
Garden State Park was a harness and thoroughbred race track in Cherry Hill, Camden County, New Jersey. It is now the site of a high-end, mixed-use "town center" development of stores, restaurants, apartments, townhouses, and condominiums. Garden ...
's Haddonfield Handicap.
[2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 95 on March 3, 2007.]
Records
Speed record:
* 7 furlong - 1:23.00 - Gazillion (2002)
* miles - 1:50.00 - Wait for the Lady (1990)
Most wins by a
jockey
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:
* 4 -
Alberto Delgado (1988, 1991, 1992, 2009)
* 3 -
Jeremy Rose
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(2002, 2003, 2006)
Most wins by a
trainer:
* 3 -
Richard W. Small (2004, 2005, 2007)
Winners of the Squan Song Stakes since 1988
See also
*
Squan Song Stakes "top three finishers" and starters
*
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 unt ...
References
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External links
Laurel Park racetrack
Triple Crown Prep Races
Laurel Park Racecourse
Horse races in Maryland
Horse races established in 1988
1988 establishments in Maryland