Mesabi Maiden

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Mesabi Maiden
Sire Cox's Ridge
Grandsire Best Turn
DamSteel Maiden
Damsire Damascus
Sex Mare
Foaled1993
Country United States
Colour Bay
BreederStuart S. Janney III
& Ogden Phipps
OwnerStuart S. Janney III
& Ogden Phipps
Trainer Gary C. Contessa
Record18: 3-1-6
Earnings$240,314
Major wins
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (1996)
Last updated on July 1, 2011

Mesabi Maiden (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. The daughter of Cox's Ridge and Steel Maiden out of Hall of Fame Champion Damascus is probably best remembered for winning the mile and an eighth Grade II $200,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on May 17, 1996.

Kentucky State of the United States of America

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Thoroughbred Horse breed developed for racing

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are considered "hot-blooded" horses that are known for their agility, speed, and spirit.

Horse racing Equestrian sport

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its basic premise – to identify which of two or more horses is the fastest over a set course or distance – has been unchanged since at least classical antiquity.

Racing career

Mesabi Maiden broke her maiden in her third start in December 1995 and then won an allowance race in early March 1996 at Aqueduct Racetrack. Owners Stuart S. Janney III and Ogden Phipps, along with trainer Gary C. Contessa, then entered her in the second jewel of the de facto filly Triple Crown, the Grade II $200,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes in May 1996. In that mile and an eighth race on the dirt, Mesabi Maiden beat a field of eight, including heavy favorite Cara Rafaela and stakes winner Ginny Lynn. The final time for the nine furlong Black-Eyed Susan was 1:51.00 flat under her jockey Mike E. Smith.

Aqueduct Racetrack is a Thoroughbred horse-racing facility and racino in the South Ozone Park and Jamaica neighborhoods of Queens, New York City. Its racing meets are usually from late October/early November through April. The racetrack is located adjacent to a casino called Resorts World New York City.

Ogden Mills Phipps was an American stockbroker, court tennis champion and Hall of Fame member, thoroughbred horse racing executive and owner/breeder, and an art collector and philanthropist. In 2001, he was inducted into the International Court Tennis Hall of Fame.

Gary C. Contessa is an American horse trainer in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing. He became a professional trainer in 1984.

Mesabi Maiden then finished third in five of her last six races. Some of those third-place finishes came in graded stakes races, such as the grade two Monmouth Breeders' Cup Oaks in New Jersey where she finished behind Top Secret, the grade three Anne Arundel Stakes at Laurel Park Racecourse against Hey Let's Dance, and the grade three Astarita Stakes at Belmont Park, where she lost to Broad Dynamite. Mesabi Maiden finished her racing career with six third-place finishes and three wins, an overall record of 3-1-6 out of 18 starts, and earnings of $245,314.

The Anne Arundel Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in November at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. It is open to fillies ages three and up and is run at one mile on the dirt.

The Astarita Stakes was an American non-graded Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York between 1946 and 2005. Open to two-year-old fillies, it was a sprint race contested on dirt over a distance of six and a half furlongs. It offered a purse of $100,000.

Belmont Park horse racing venue in New York

Belmont Park is a major Thoroughbred horse racing facility in the northeastern United States, located in Elmont, New York, just east of the New York City limits. Opened 114 years ago on May 4, 1905, it is operated by the non-profit New York Racing Association, as are Aqueduct and Saratoga Race Course. The group was formed in 1955 as the Greater New York Association to assume the assets of the individual associations that ran Belmont, Aqueduct, Saratoga, and the now-defunct Jamaica Race Course.

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