Display Handicap

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Display Handicap
Discontinued stakes race race
Location Aqueduct Racetrack, Queens, New York, United States
Inaugurated1955
Race type Thoroughbred – Flat racing
Race information
Distance2¼ miles (18 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree years and older

The Display Handicap was an American long distance Thoroughbred horse race held annually from 1955 through 1990. [1] A race for 3-year-olds and up, it was run at the Jamaica Race Course from inception through 1958 at a distance of 21⁄16 miles. In 1959 the race was moved permanently to the newly renovated Aqueduct Racetrack after which the Jamaica track was closed and the property sold to real estate developers. [2] [3] [4] From 1959 through 1969 it was contested at 2 miles then its final two decades was run at a distance of 2¼ miles. The Display Handicap was traditionally held on the last day of racing in New York City for that calendar year. [5] It began ending the season on December 31, 1976, when year-round racing was introduced in New York.

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The race was aptly named for Display, a son of Fair Play (as was Man o' War, elected #1 in the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century). Display was noted for being able to carry heavy weights over marathon distances successfully. The Display Handicap was distinctive for the fact that many horses who normally ran in claiming races (but possessed abundant stamina) would be entered in it, and a few such horses went on to win the event. In 1978, Seaney Bear nosed out Framarco, another horse who ran mostly in claiming races. They competed in one of the two divisions of the race which were run in that year, necessitated by an unusually high number of horses entered in the race. Although the race was for 3-year-olds and up, it was rare for a 3-year-old to win it; when In the Ruff won the 1983 running he became the first 3-year-old winner of the Display since Dean Carl in 1963, and the first ever at the 2¼-mile distance. [6]

The Display Handicap was run in two divisions in 1974 and 1978 but in its later years field sizes became progressively smaller, with only five starters in what would prove to be the final running on December 31, 1990. [7] The discontinuing of the Display Handicap left the Valedictory Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario (run at 1¾ miles) as the longest stakes race run on the dirt in North America. [8]

Historical notes

Mrs. Edward E. Robbins' Midafternoon came into the 1956 Display Handicap having already won two of that year's important races, the Metropolitan and Massachusetts Handicaps. [9] [10] In winning the Display, Midafternoon set a new Jamaica Race Course record with a time of 3:29 3/5 for 21⁄16 miles. [11]

Primordial II was an Argentine-bred who had been racing in Venezuela for trainer Laffit Pincay Sr., father of Laffit Pincay Jr. who in 1966 would emigrate to the United States where would become one of the most successful in American racing history and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. Primordial II was brought to the United States to run in the mile and one-half Washington, D.C. International Stakes. The 1962 Venezuelan Horse of the Year finished sixth to the legendary American runner Kelso but came back to win the two-mile Display Handicap by eight lengths over the heavily favored Christiana Stables runner Smart. [12]

Paraje, an Argentine-bred bought as a two-year-old by the Venezuelan-owned Stud Los Libertadores who would race him in Venezuela until being sold in late 1970 to American businessman Sigmund Sommer. Paraje won the 1971 Display Handicap in track record time then won it again in each of the next two years. [13] [14] In the 1973 edition Paraje set a new American and world record time of 3:47 4/5 for 2¼ miles on dirt. [15] Paraje's owner, Sigmund Sommer, would win this race a record total five times.

The only other horse to win the race more than once was Louis R. Rowan and Wheelock Whitney Jr.'s Quicken Tree who first won it in 1967 and after not running in the 1968 race, came back to win it again in 1969, defeating Hydrologist by 7 lengths. [16]

The 1976 race was won by Frampton Delight when Cunning Trick was disqualified for interference as the two battled down the homestretch. [17]

Records

Speed record:

Most wins:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Most wins by an owner:

Winners

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Dist.
(Miles)		Time
Win$
 Gr.
1990Blackhawk's Ghost3Dennis CarrWilliam V. TerrillAratrac Farm21⁄4 M4:02.60$50,940L
1989Passing Ships5 Ángel Cordero Jr. Robert P. KlesarisGold-n-Oats Stable (Marisa Anne Lizza)21⁄4 M3:55.60$51,390G3
1988Easy N Dirty5 Jorge Velásquez Paulino O. OrtizPaulino O. Ortiz21⁄4 M3:53.40$48,330G3
1987Jane's Dilemma6 José A. Santos Richard W. Small Robert E. Meyerhoff21⁄4 M3:56.40$70,290G3
1986Fabulous Move4 Chris Antley Oscar S. Barrera Sr.Oscar S. Barrera Sr.21⁄4 M3:56.00$54,000G3
1985Erin Bright5 Frank Lovato Jr. C. R. McGaughey III Ogden Mills Phipps 21⁄4 M4:00.80$54,090G3
1984Putting Green4 Ruben Hernandez Chester RossSeymour Cohn21⁄4 M3:56.20$57,960G3
1983In the Ruff3 Robbie Davis Gasper S. MoscheraAlbert Davis21⁄4 M3:55.40$51,570G3
1982Nice Pirate4 Ángel Cordero Jr. Thomas M. WalshMargarite Kern21⁄4 M3:57.00$51,030G3
1981Field Cat4Eric Beitia J. Elliott Burch Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney 21⁄4 M3:51.80$50,940G3
1980Peat Moss5 Frank Lovato Jr. Gilbert PuentesMurray M. Garren21⁄4 M3:57.80$50,580G3
1979Ethnarch4 Jorge Velásquez Dominick A. Imperio21⁄4 M3:55.80$50,220G3
1978-1Seaney Bear4 Vincent Bracciale Jr. Vincent R. NocellaRichard R. Rand21⁄4 M3:53.60$31,740G3
1978-2Proud Arion4 Eddie Maple Pancho Martin Sigmund Sommer 21⁄4 M3:55.00$31,890G3
1977Gallivantor5 Jorge Velásquez Joseph A. TrovatoJack R. Hogan21⁄4 M3:50.80$32,490G3
1976Frampton Delight4 Jean Cruguet Everett W. KingLen Ragozin21⁄4 M3:54.80$33,510G3
1975Sharp Gary4 Sandy Hawley Robert J. Frankel Edward R. Scharps21⁄4 M3:52.20$32,520
1974-1Outdoors5 Daryl Montoya John W. Russell Ogden Phipps 21⁄4 M3:51.60$32,670
1974-2Copte4 Jorge Velásquez Angel Penna Sr. Daniel Wildenstein 21⁄4 M3:50.40$32,520
1973 Paraje 7 Jorge Velásquez Pancho Martin Sigmund Sommer 21⁄4 M3:47.40$33,840
1972 Paraje 6 Jorge Velásquez Pancho Martin Sigmund Sommer 21⁄4 M3:56.40$33,570
1971 Paraje 5 Laffit Pincay Jr. Pancho Martin Sigmund Sommer 21⁄4 M3:52.00$33,840
1970Hitchcock4 Eddie Belmonte Pancho Martin Sigmund Sommer 2 M3:21.20$34,380
1969 Quicken Tree 6 Fernando Alvarez William T. Canney Louis R. Rowan & Wheelock Whitney Jr. 2 M3:20.20$39,130
1968Fast Count5 Jorge Velásquez Everett W. KingSyl George Stable (Sylvia Chapman)2 M3:23.60$36,205
1967 Quicken Tree 4 Fernando Alvarez Clyde Turk Louis R. Rowan & Wheelock Whitney Jr. 2 M3:25.00$38,025
1966Damelo II5 Manuel Ycaza Laz Barrera Manual R. Giberga2 M3:24.60$36,660
1965Brave Lad4 Braulio Baeza Sylvester E. Veitch Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr. 2 M3:26.60$37,115
1964Primordial II7Laffit Pincay Sr.Santiago L. LedwithSantiago L. Ledwith2 M3:28.40$36,530
1963Dean Carl3 Bobby Ussery Paul BongarzonePaul Bongarzone2 M3:21.80$36,465
1962Sensitivo5 Manuel Ycaza Arnold N. Winick M/M Robert F. Bensinger2 M3:21.80$36,920
1961Hillsborough4 Don Pierce Edward A. Neloy Peter D. Fuller 2 M3:29.80$38,010
1960Nickel Boy5 Manuel Ycaza Walter A. Kelley Elmendorf (Maxwell Gluck)2 M3:21.20$35,935
1959Beau Diable6 Eric Guerin George P. "Maje" Odom Laudy L. Lawrence 2 M3:22.60$37,490
1958Civet5Bill PeakeT. F. McMahonBrynalan Stable (E. Austin Byrne)21⁄16 M3:34.20$36,515
1957Oh Johnny4 Bobby Ussery Norman R. McLeodMrs. Wallace Gilroy21⁄16 M3:32.20$39,500
1956 Midafternoon 4 Eddie Arcaro Thomas M. WallerMrs. Edward E. Robbins21⁄16 M3:29.60$19,650
1955War Command5 Bill Boland H. Allen Jerkens Albert J. Mesler21⁄16 M3:32.60$20,400

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References

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