Squan Song Stakes

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Squan Song Stakes
Restricted Stakes race
Location Laurel Park Racecourse,
Laurel, Maryland,
United States
Inaugurated1988
Race type ThoroughbredFlat racing
Website www.laurelpark.com
Race information
Distance7 furlongs
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationFillies & Mares; Three years-old & up
WeightAssigned
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]

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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]

Records

Speed record:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Winners of the Squan Song Stakes since 1988

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Distance

Time
Purse
2011Art of the Hunt3Luis Garcia Frannie Campitelli Rosalee C. Davison7-fur.1:25.33$75,000
2010Music Please3 Eric Camacho Rodney Jenkins Mrs. J.W.Y. Martin7-fur.1:26.97$50,000
2009Sterling Vow4 Alberto Delgado Ronald Sweeney Marilyn Ketts7-fur.1:25.54$50,000
2008Now It Begins4 Charles Forrest Michael Trombetta R. Larry Johnson7-fur.1:25.12$50,000
2007For Kisses4 Rosie Napravnik Richard W. Small Buckingham Farm7-fur.1:26.60$45,000
2006Yolanda B. Too4 Jeremy Rose Richard A. Violette Dixiana Farm7-fur.1:25.20$50,000
2005Magical Broad3 H. A. Karamanos Richard W. Small Fitzhugh, LLC7-fur.1:26.40$50,000
2004Perilous Night3 Jozbin Santana Richard W. Small Fitzhugh, LLC6-fur.1:13.00$50,000
2003Search for a Cure3 Jeremy Rose Dale Capuano Louis Ulman7-fur.1:25.00$50,000
2002Gazillion3 Jeremy Rose Hamilton A. Smith Lucy C. Kessler7-fur.1:23.00$50,000
2001Winter Leaf3 Larry Reynolds Ronald Cartrwright Michael T. Sutherland7-fur.1:24.80$50,000
2000Miss Cheers4 Mark T. Johnston William M. Howard Candy Stable7-fur.1:25.60$50,000
1999Northern Mist4 Mario Verge Ronald A. Alfano David P. Reynolds 7-fur.1:24.40$50,000
1988- 2005-No RacesNo RacesNo Racesno races0:00.00no races
1993Gammy's Alden4 Mike Luzzi Vincent Bracciale, Jr.1+181:50.80$55,000
1992Wait for the Lady5 Alberto Delgado Hickory House Farm1+181:51.00$60,000
1991Wait for the Lady4 Alberto Delgado Hickory House Farm1+181:50.00$60,000
1990Diane's Girl4 Edgar Prado J.K. Thomas, H. Boone1+181:52.40$75,000
1989Lady Annabelle5 Vincent Bracciale Jr. Cecil Seaman, Charles Cole1+1161:44.00$55,000
1988Smart 'n Quick5 Alberto Delgado 1+181:52.40$60,000

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References

  1. "Laurel031911PTS". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-03-21. Purse figures supplied by Laurel Park
  2. 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 95 on March 3, 2007.