Restricted Stakes race | |
Location | Laurel Park Racecourse, Laurel, Maryland, United States |
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Inaugurated | 1988 |
Race type | Thoroughbred – Flat racing |
Website | www |
Race information | |
Distance | 7 furlongs |
Surface | Dirt |
Track | left-handed |
Qualification | Fillies & Mares; Three years-old & up |
Weight | Assigned |
Purse | $75,000 |
The Squan Song Stakes is a race for Thoroughbred horses held in early November at Laurel Park in Maryland. The ungraded stakes race is open to three-year-olds, is run at one mile on the dirt, and offers a purse of $75,000. [1]
This race is named for Squan Song (born 1981), who was a four-time Maryland Bred champion, from 1984 to 1987 and earned "Horse-of-the-Year" honors in 1985. A winner of 18 of her 36 career starts, with 12 placements (ten in stakes races), the mare earned $898,444, placing her fourth on the all-time list of top Maryland-bred money winners at the time of her retirement. She was sold by her breeder Linda Green, for $125,000 as a weanling at Keeneland.
Squan Song campaigned under the colors of owners Bob Brennan's Due ProcessStable, winning a total of 14 stakes races, including the Grade 2 Cotillion Handicap at Philadelphia Park, the Rare Treat Stakes and the Affectionately Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack. She set track records for a mile and one sixteenth in the Meadowlands Racetrack's Honey Bee Handicap and in Garden State Park Racetrack's Haddonfield Handicap. [2]
Speed record:
Most wins by a jockey:
Most wins by a trainer:
Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Distance | Time | Purse |
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2011 | Art of the Hunt | 3 | Luis Garcia | Frannie Campitelli | Rosalee C. Davison | 7-fur. | 1:25.33 | $75,000 |
2010 | Music Please | 3 | Eric Camacho | Rodney Jenkins | Mrs. J.W.Y. Martin | 7-fur. | 1:26.97 | $50,000 |
2009 | Sterling Vow | 4 | Alberto Delgado | Ronald Sweeney | Marilyn Ketts | 7-fur. | 1:25.54 | $50,000 |
2008 | Now It Begins | 4 | Charles Forrest | Michael Trombetta | R. Larry Johnson | 7-fur. | 1:25.12 | $50,000 |
2007 | For Kisses | 4 | Rosie Napravnik | Richard W. Small | Buckingham Farm | 7-fur. | 1:26.60 | $45,000 |
2006 | Yolanda B. Too | 4 | Jeremy Rose | Richard A. Violette | Dixiana Farm | 7-fur. | 1:25.20 | $50,000 |
2005 | Magical Broad | 3 | H. A. Karamanos | Richard W. Small | Fitzhugh, LLC | 7-fur. | 1:26.40 | $50,000 |
2004 | Perilous Night | 3 | Jozbin Santana | Richard W. Small | Fitzhugh, LLC | 6-fur. | 1:13.00 | $50,000 |
2003 | Search for a Cure | 3 | Jeremy Rose | Dale Capuano | Louis Ulman | 7-fur. | 1:25.00 | $50,000 |
2002 | Gazillion | 3 | Jeremy Rose | Hamilton A. Smith | Lucy C. Kessler | 7-fur. | 1:23.00 | $50,000 |
2001 | Winter Leaf | 3 | Larry Reynolds | Ronald Cartrwright | Michael T. Sutherland | 7-fur. | 1:24.80 | $50,000 |
2000 | Miss Cheers | 4 | Mark T. Johnston | William M. Howard | Candy Stable | 7-fur. | 1:25.60 | $50,000 |
1999 | Northern Mist | 4 | Mario Verge | Ronald A. Alfano | David P. Reynolds | 7-fur. | 1:24.40 | $50,000 |
1988 | - 2005 | - | No Races | No Races | No Races | no races | 0:00.00 | no races |
1993 | Gammy's Alden | 4 | Mike Luzzi | Vincent Bracciale, Jr. | 1+1⁄8 | 1:50.80 | $55,000 | |
1992 | Wait for the Lady | 5 | Alberto Delgado | Hickory House Farm | 1+1⁄8 | 1:51.00 | $60,000 | |
1991 | Wait for the Lady | 4 | Alberto Delgado | Hickory House Farm | 1+1⁄8 | 1:50.00 | $60,000 | |
1990 | Diane's Girl | 4 | Edgar Prado | J.K. Thomas, H. Boone | 1+1⁄8 | 1:52.40 | $75,000 | |
1989 | Lady Annabelle | 5 | Vincent Bracciale Jr. | Cecil Seaman, Charles Cole | 1+1⁄16 | 1:44.00 | $55,000 | |
1988 | Smart 'n Quick | 5 | Alberto Delgado | 1+1⁄8 | 1:52.40 | $60,000 |
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