Spring Juvenile Stakes

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Spring Juvenile Stakes
Discontinued stakes race
Location Pimlico Race Course
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Inaugurated1917
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance4.5 furlongs
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationTwo-year-olds

The Spring Juvenile Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the first part of May from 1917 through 1930 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. A race for two-year-olds of either sex, it was run on dirt over a distance of four and one-half furlongs. At the time the Spring Juvenile Stakes was created Pimlico already had the Nursery Stakes which was run under the exact same terms and distance. Careful in 1920 and Lord Baltimore in 1921 marked the only two times the Spring Juvenile winner also won the Pimlico Nursery Stakes. [1]

Contents

Historical notes

The inaugural running of the Spring Juvenile Stakes took place on May 12, 1917 and was won by Edward McBride's colt Charlie Leydecker who defeated Quietude, the betting favorite owned by Alfred H. Morris. [2]

In 1920 Walter J. Salmon Sr.'s Careful won the race under Hall of Fame jockey James Butwell. [3] Careful would be named that year's American Co-Champion Two-Year-Old Filly, sharing the honor with Harry Payne Whitney's Prudery. Careful went on to earn a second national title as the American Champion Older Female Horse of 1922. [4] Lord Baltimore set a new track record time in winning the 1921 race. In so doing, the Daily Racing Form noted he had beaten the best two-year-olds at Pimlico. [5] Careful and Lord Baltimore were the only winners of the Spring Juvenile who also won the Pimlico Nursery Stakes. [6]

Demise

The Wall Street Crash of 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression which would soon force racetrack owners to cut purse money for all races and to cancel others. Pimlico already had the Nursery Stakes open to all, and the Home-Bred Stakes for Maryland-bred two-year-olds, both of which were at the same distance as the Spring Juvenile Stakes. Because the Nursery Stakes had the higher profile as a stakes first run in 1909, and the importance of promoting breeding in the state of Maryland, it would be the Spring Juvenile Stakes that would be dropped from the schedule. [7] [8] [9]

Records

Speed record:

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$
1930Up2 Frank Coltiletti Preston M. Burch James Nugent Crofton0:53.604.5 F$5,610
1929Mint Olga2George Fields Andrew G. Blakely Willis Sharpe Kilmer 0:55.004.5 F$6,280
1928Dunkirk2 Louis Schaefer Thomas J. Healey Walter J. Salmon Sr. 0:56.204.5 F$6,220
1927All Callao2 Ovila Bourassa Clyde Phillips Greentree Stable 0:54.604.5 F$5,740
1926The Heathen2 John Callahan William R. Midgley Sr.C. Harvey Pierce0:54.004.5 F$4,840
1925Silver Finn2 Edgar Barnes William DurnanFlamingo Stable0:54.404.5 F$4,820
1924Extreme2 Edgar Barnes Matthew SmartSamuel Ross0:55.804.5 F$3,750
1923June Flower2 Andy Schuttinger Roy Waldron Xalapa Farm Stable 0:54.204.5 F$4,050
1922St. Valentine2Frank KeoghHarry RitesJ. Edwin Griffith0:54.004.5 F$2,050
1921 Lord Baltimore 2 Ted Rice William M. Garth Joshua S. Cosden 0:53.604.5 F$2,150
1920 Careful 2 Willie Kelsay Eugene Wayland Walter J. Salmon Sr. 0:54.404.5 F$2,150
1919Kallipolis2George CoreyNathaniel K. BealJohn H. Shreeve0:55.004.5 F$2,200
1918Madam Byng2 Lawrence Lyke Arthur BrentW. A. Gamble0:54.804.5 F$3,250
1917Charlie Leydecker2John MetcalfWilliam LivingstonEdward McBride0:59.604.5 F$1,680

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References

  1. ↑ "Pimlicos "Baby" Stakes: Juvenile and Pimlico Nursery Two-Year-Old Events for Spring Meeting". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1924-04-08. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  2. ↑ "Pimlico Form Chart". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1917-05-13. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  3. ↑ "Careful Takes Pimlico Event". The Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer, page 8 (Library of Congress). 1920-05-13. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  4. ↑ The Bloodhorse.com Champion's history charts Archived September 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "Lord Baltimore Winner: Defeats Best Two-Year-Olds at Pimlico in Spring Juvenile Stakes". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1921-05-11. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  6. ↑ "Pimlicos "Baby" Stakes: Juvenile and Pimlico Nursery Two-Year-Old Events for Spring Meeting". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1924-04-08. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  7. ↑ Daily Racing Form "Tom Melton's Stake Race: Wins The Nursery Stakes At Pimlico" Retrieved July 24, 2018
  8. ↑ Daily Racing Form "Equibit Finishes Fast on Outside To Annex Pimlico Nursery Stakes" Retrieved July 24, 2018
  9. ↑ "Triton a Repeater: Duplicates Recent Victory in Pimlico Home-Bred Stakes". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1926-05-08. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
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