Mount Vernon Handicap

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Mount Vernon Handicap
ClassDiscontinued stakes
Location Empire City Race Track, Yonkers, New York,
United States
Inaugurated1907
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance1 mile, 70 yards
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds and up

The Mount Vernon Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run in twenty-one of the years between 1907 and 1930 at Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York with one year only in 1915 at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. There was no race held from 1911 thru 1913 as a result of anti-betting legislation passed by the New York Legislature under Governor Charles Evans Hughes. Titled the Hart-Agnew, transgressors of the law faced substantial fines and up to a year in prison. [1]

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First run on August 7, 1913, the Mount Vernon Handicap was a sprint race of about three-quarters of a mile and was won by Samuel Hyman's five-year-old gelding, Quadrille. [2] The following year the race was changed to one mile, a distance that would continue thru 1924 when it was increased to one mile and seventy yards.

Andrew Miller’s 1918 winner Roamer would have a career that saw him receive American Thoroughbred racing’s highest honor with induction into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. [3]

In winning the 1924 Mount Vernon Handicap, August Belmont Jr.'s Ordinance broke the track record for the one mile distance on dirt. The three-year-old colt's time of 1:38 flat would hold up as the Mount Vernon Handicap's fastest time at the Empire City track. [4]

Records

Speed record:

Most wins:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Most wins by an owner:

Winners

YearWinnerAgeJockeyTrainerOwner
Dist.
(Miles)
TimeWin $
1930 Questionnaire 3 Alfred Robertson Andy Schuttinger James Butler 1m, 70yds1:45.00$4,570
1929 Light Carbine 6George C. RoseMichael J. DunleavyIra B. Humphreys1m, 70yds1:44.40$5,180
1928Juggler4Edward WattersStephen J. LawlerArthur H. Waterman1m, 70yds1:46.00$5,545
1927Dolan3 John Callahan Edward W. Heffner Edward F. Cooney1m, 70yds1:44.80$5,130
1926 Sarazen 5Fritz Weiner Max Hirsch Fair Stable 1m, 70yds1:42.80$4,845
1925Sun Pal4John Callahan Selby Burch Lee Rosenberg1m, 70yds1:44.00$5,250
1924Ordinance3 Clarence Kummer Louis Feustel August Belmont Jr. 1 m1:38.00$6,745
1923 Brainstorm 4Benny MarinelliJoseph EdwardsMirasol Stable (Henry Waterson)1 m1:39.00$6,040
1922Dr. Clark5 Mack Garner Mose Goldblatt Mose Goldblatt1 m1:39.00$5,205
1921Naturalist7 Clarence Turner Thomas Welsh Joseph E. Widener 1 m1:40.40$4,530
1920Irish Dream3Tommy RowanCharles WhiteKilrane Stable1 m1:40.80$3,170
1919Lucullite4 Laverne Fator Sam Hildreth Sam Hildreth1 m1:40.40$2,325
1918 Roamer 7 Lawrence Lyke A. J. Goldsborough Andrew Miller 1 m1:40.20$2,325
1917St. Isidore4Morris Rowan George M. Odom Brighton Stable 1 m1:40.20$2,325
1916Boots5Robert HoffmanWalter C. JenningsOscar Lewisohn1 m1:39.00$2,180
1915 Sam Jackson 7 Tommy McTaggart Jack L. McGinnisT. J. O'Brien1 m1:36.60$1,875
1914Surprising3 Merritt C. Buxton Richard F. Carman Sr. Richard F. Carman Sr.1 m1:40.60$1,985
1913No races held due to New York State’s Hart–Agnew Law
1911/12
1910Hanbridge5 Frederick Herbert George Ham George H. Holle1 m1:41.20$1,925
1909Half Sovereign4 Eddie Dugan John Whalen August Belmont Jr.1 m1:39.00$1,925
1908 Jack Atkin 4 Joe Notter Herman R. Brandt Barney Schreiber 1 m1:40.80$2,390
1907Quadrille5Herman MoeselRichard E. WatkinsSamuel Hyman6 F (±)1:09.20$1,630

References

  1. "Penalties in the New York Bills". Daily Racing Form. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  2. "New York Form Chart". Daily Racing Form . Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  3. "BC announces 2022 "Win and You're In' schedule". National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame - horses. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
  4. "Ordinance Winner; Sets Track Record". The New York Times . Retrieved 11 October 2024.