Safely Kept Stakes

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Safely Kept Stakes
ClassGrade III
Location Laurel Park Racecourse,
Laurel, Maryland,
United States
Inaugurated1986
Race type ThoroughbredFlat racing
Website www.laurelpark.com
Race information
Distance 7 furlong sprint
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds fillies
WeightAssigned
Purse$125,000

The Safely Kept Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. Open to fillies aged three, it is competed on dirt over a distance of seven furlongs. Run during October, it offers a purse of $100,000.

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The Safely Kept Breeders' Cup Stakes is one of the top sprints for three-year-old fillies in the country. One of the few six-furlong contests with graded status for three-year-olds that leads to the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. It was inaugurated in 1986 as the Columbia Stakes. The stakes record is held by Godmother who finished the six furlongs in 1:09.21. [1]

The race is named in honor of Jayeff "B" Stable's and Barry Weisbord's 1989 Eclipse Award Champion Sprinter and 1989 Columbia Stakes winner Safely Kept in 1996. The race has been called several different titles beginning with Columbia Handicap (after a nearby town in Maryland) from 1986–1987, then the Columbia Stakes from 1989–1995. [2]

The race was at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland and has been moved to back and forth from Laurel to Pimlico depending on dates that were assigned by the Maryland Racing Commission. The race was held at Pimlico in 1986–1987, 1989, and 1991–1996. The race was run at Colonial Downs in New Kent, Virginia in 1997. The race was run at Laurel in 1988, 1990, 1998–2000 and from 2006 to present. [3] The race was run at 6+12 furlongs in 1987 and 1988.

The Safely Kept Breeders' Cup Stakes was given Graded stakes status in 1990. On August 7, 2008 it was announced that the race would be on hiatus for 2008, the Maryland Jockey Club cited financial distress as the reason for the races' cancellation. The annual grading session of the American Graded Stakes Committee listed Safely Kept S. at Laurel Park not eligible for grading for 2010.

Records

Speed record:

Most wins by a horse:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Most wins by an owner:

Winners of the "Safely Kept Stakes" since 1986

Year
Winner
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Dist.
Time
Purse
Gr.
20217 fur0:00.00$100,000
2020Hello BeautifulSheldon RussellBrittany T. RussellMadaket Stables LLC,7 fur1:22.26$100,000
2019Needs SupervisionFeargal LynchJeremiah O'DwyerHowling Pigeons Farm7 fur1:23.51$100,000
2018America's TaleTrevor McCarthyBernie FlintNaveed Chowhan7 fur1:23.97$100,000
2017BernedFeargal Lynch Graham Motion Three C Stables, etc.7 fur1:22.54$100,000
2016Tale for Ruby Edgar Prado Barclay Tagg Charles Fipke 7 fur1:23.51$100,000
2015Hot City Girl Cornelio Velásquez Linda Rice Lady Sheila Stable6 fur1:09.67$100,000
2014Who's In TownJulian Pimentel Michael Matz Richard Golden7 fur1:23.68$100,000
2013Lady SabeliaHoracio Karamanos Robin Graham Mrs. Frank P. Wright7 fur1:23.97$100,000
2012Greed and FearHoracio Karamanos Rudy Rodriguez Michael Dubb7 fur1:25.13$125,000
2011no raceno raceno raceno race7 fur1:25.13$125,000
2010no raceno raceno raceno race7 fur1:25.13$125,000
2009no raceno raceno raceno race7 fur1:25.13$125,000
2008no raceno raceno raceno race7 fur1:25.13$125,000
2007Sindy with an S Jeremy Rose Mike R. Mitchell Dream Stable, LLC6 fur1:10.16$200,000III
2006Wild Gams Ryan Fogelsonger Ben Perkins Jr. Everett B. Novak6 fur1:09.93$200,000III
2005Trikle of Gold Jeremy Rose Michael Gorham John Murphy6 fur1:10.45$150,000III
2004Bending StringsHector Karamanos Kiaran McLaughlin John Gunther6 fur1:10.11$150,000III
2003Randaroo Heberto Castillo Kiaran McLaughlin H. Joseph Allen 6 fur1:10.54$150,000III
2002Miss Lodi Ryan Fogelsonger Thomas M. Amoss Richard Colton & Henry Mast6 fur1:11.20$150,000III
2001KimbralataTravis Dunkelberger Dale Capuano Donald Mensh6 fur1:11.20$100,000III
2000Swept AwayJeremy A. Beasley Bernard Flint Rich Bertram & Elaine Klein6 fur1:09.51$100,000III
1999Godfather Mario Pino Robert W. Camac Arthur I. Appleton 6 fur1:09.21$100,000III
1998Hair Spray José A. Vélez Jr. Charlie Whittingham Robert E. Meyerhoff6 fur1:10.67$110,000III
1997Weather Vane Mario Pino Richard Delp Par Four Racing Stable6 fur1:10.21$110,000III
1996J J's Dream Mario Pino Eddie Plesa Jr. John A. Franks 6 fur1:09.45$100,000III
1995Broad SmileJerilyn Brown Richard W. Small Robert E. Meyerhoff6 fur1:10.30$100,000III
1994Twist AfleetDennis Carr John C. Kimmel Lucille Conover6 fur1:10.88$100,000III
1993Miss Indy AnnaB. Douglas ThomasNed AllardCharles T. Matses6 fur1:09.12$100,000III
1992Meafara Brian Swatuk Leslie AhrensFrank Muench6 fur1:10.55$100,000III
1991Missy's Mirage Herb McCauley H. Allen Jerkens Middletown Stable6 fur1:10.53$100,000III
1990Voodoo Lily Kent Desormeaux D. Wayne Lukas H. Joseph Allen 6 fur1:10.60$100,000III
1989 Safely Kept Craig Perret Alan E. Goldberg Jayeff B Stab/Barry Weisbord6 fur1:11.20$100,000III
1988Clever Power Julie Krone Richard E. Dutrow Sr. Marvin Moncrief6+12 fur1:16.40$110,000
1987Endless Surprise Kent Desormeaux Hyman Ravich Peter Angelos 6+12 fur1:17.40$47,250
1986Debtor's PrisonDavid ByrnesNot FoundNot Found6 fur1:11.40$47,000

See also

References

  1. 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 37 on March 3, 2007.
  2. 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 37 on March 3, 2007.
  3. 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 37 on March 3, 2007.