Squan Song Stakes

Squan Song Stakes
Restricted Stakes race
LocationLaurel Park Racecourse,
Laurel, Maryland,
United States
Inaugurated1988
Race typeThoroughbred – Flat racing
Websitewww.laurelpark.com
Race information
Distance7 furlongs
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationFillies & Mares; Three years-old & up
WeightAssigned
Purse$75,000

The Squan Song Stakes is a race for Thoroughbred horses held in early November at Laurel Park in Maryland. 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.[1]

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 at Philadelphia Park, the Rare Treat Stakes and the Affectionately Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack. She set track records for a mile and one sixteenth in the Meadowlands Racetrack's Honey Bee Handicap and in Garden State Park Racetrack's Haddonfield Handicap.[2]

Records

Speed record:

  • 7 furlong - 1:23.00 - Gazillion (2002)
  • 1+1⁄8 miles - 1:50.00 - Wait for the Lady (1990)

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Winners of the Squan Song Stakes since 1988

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Distance

 Time
 Purse
2011 Art of the Hunt 3 Luis Garcia Frannie Campitelli Rosalee C. Davison 7-fur. 1:25.33 $75,000
2010 Music Please 3 Eric Camacho Rodney Jenkins Mrs. J.W.Y. Martin 7-fur. 1:26.97 $50,000
2009 Sterling Vow 4 Alberto Delgado Ronald Sweeney Marilyn Ketts 7-fur. 1:25.54 $50,000
2008 Now It Begins 4 Charles Forrest Michael Trombetta R. Larry Johnson 7-fur. 1:25.12 $50,000
2007 For Kisses 4 Rosie Napravnik Richard W. Small Buckingham Farm 7-fur. 1:26.60 $45,000
2006 Yolanda B. Too 4 Jeremy Rose Richard A. Violette Dixiana Farm 7-fur. 1:25.20 $50,000
2005 Magical Broad 3 H. A. Karamanos Richard W. Small Fitzhugh, LLC 7-fur. 1:26.40 $50,000
2004 Perilous Night 3 Jozbin Santana Richard W. Small Fitzhugh, LLC 6-fur. 1:13.00 $50,000
2003 Search for a Cure 3 Jeremy Rose Dale Capuano Louis Ulman 7-fur. 1:25.00 $50,000
2002 Gazillion 3 Jeremy Rose Hamilton A. Smith Lucy C. Kessler 7-fur. 1:23.00 $50,000
2001 Winter Leaf 3 Larry Reynolds Ronald Cartrwright Michael T. Sutherland 7-fur. 1:24.80 $50,000
2000 Miss Cheers 4 Mark T. Johnston William M. Howard Candy Stable 7-fur. 1:25.60 $50,000
1999 Northern Mist 4 Mario Verge Ronald A. Alfano David P. Reynolds 7-fur. 1:24.40 $50,000
1988 - 2005 - No Races No Races No Races no races 0:00.00 no races
1993 Gammy's Alden 4 Mike Luzzi Vincent Bracciale, Jr. 1+1⁄8 1:50.80 $55,000
1992 Wait for the Lady 5 Alberto Delgado Hickory House Farm 1+1⁄8 1:51.00 $60,000
1991 Wait for the Lady 4 Alberto Delgado Hickory House Farm 1+1⁄8 1:50.00 $60,000
1990 Diane's Girl 4 Edgar Prado J.K. Thomas, H. Boone 1+1⁄8 1:52.40 $75,000
1989 Lady Annabelle 5 Vincent Bracciale Jr. Cecil Seaman, Charles Cole 1+1⁄16 1:44.00 $55,000
1988 Smart 'n Quick 5 Alberto Delgado 1+1⁄8 1:52.40 $60,000

See also

References

  1. ^ "Laurel031911PTS". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-03-21. Purse figures supplied by Laurel Park
  2. ^ 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 95 on March 3, 2007.