Wide Country Stakes

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Wide Country Stakes
ClassUngraded Stakes
Location Laurel Park Racecourse,
Laurel, Maryland,
United States
Inaugurated1994
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.laurelpark.com
Race information
Distance7 furlongs
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationFillies; Three-years-old
WeightAssigned
Purse $100,000

The Wide Country Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in March at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. The race is open to fillies age three and up over seven furlongs on the dirt. It was run for the 23rd time in 2015.

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An ungraded stakes race, it currently offers a purse of $100,000. The race was named in honor of the 1991 Maryland-bred "Horse of the Year, Wide Country. Tom Tanner's home bred, Wide Country compiled a nine-race win streak (all stakes races at either Pimlico Race Course or Laurel Park Racecourse). The streak began in the final months of 1990 when the chestnut filly won the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes over a muddy race track after losing a shoe. She also won the Grade 3 Pimlico Oaks by eight and a half lengths. Wide Country shipped to Belmont Park and Meadowlands during that campaign and placed second in graded stakes company in both cases. Trained by Robert W. Camac, she captured three straight Maryland stakes races on her way to state-bred championship honors. She retired with a record of 20 wins or placings in 26 starts for career earnings of $881,221.

Records

Speed record:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Winners of the Wide Country Stakes since 1994

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
DistanceTimePurse
201837 fur.0:00.00$100,000
2017Enchanted Ghost3 Angel Cruz Hamilton Smith Mens Grille Racing7 fur.1:25.49$100,000
2017China Grove3 Kendrick Karamanos Ben Colebrook Katherine G. Ball7 fur.1:23.86$100,000
2016Great Soul3 Trevor McCarthy Timothy L. Keefe Steve Long7 fur.1:27.73$75,000
2015Gypsy Judy3 Horacio Karamanos Robin L. Graham James Hibbert7 fur.1:25.75$100,000
2014Taris3 Clinton L. Potts Todd M. Beattie Commonwealth New Era R.7 fur.1:24.71$100,000
2013Walkwithapurpose3 Jeremy Rose Ignacio Correas Sagamore Farm 7 fur.1:27.04$125,000
2012Millionreasonswhy3 Horacio Karamanos Ignacio Correas Sagamore Farm7 fur.1:24.08$100,000
2011Red's Round Table3 Sheldon Russell Tim Keefe Arnold Heft7 fur.1:25.99$55,000
2010Jim's Prospect3 Vladimir Diaz John B. Secor Estate of James Glenn7 fur.1:24.67$70,000
2009Saarlight3 Ray Fuentes Kiaran McLaughlin Cam Allard7 fur.1:22.78$60,000
2008Armonk3 Julian Pimentel Kiaran McLaughlin Jeff Singer7 fur.1:26.63$50,000
2007Bare Dancer3 Dyn Panell Gary Contessa Darlene Bilinski1 mile1:40.00$90,000
2006Celestial Legend3 Erick D. Rodriguez Dale Capuano R. Shultz & D. Menard1 mile1:41.40$75,000
2005Amazing Buy3 Norberto Arroyo Jennifer Pederson Paraneck Stable 1 mile1:40.60$50,000
2004He Loves Me3 Jozbin Santana Richard W. Small Buckingham Farm 1-1/161:47.20$35,000
2003Powers Prospect3 Roberto Alvarado Cathal A. Lynch D'Arrigo Racing Stable1-1/161:44.80$50,000
2002Shop Till You Drop3 Harry Vega John Fee Dewey White1-1/161:46.80$36,000
2001Strike It Up3 Mario Pino Anthony W. Dutrow 1-1/81:50.80$55,000
2000Case of the Blues3 Mark T. Johnston Hamilton A. Smith 1-1/81:52.40$80,000
1999Synchronized3 Jose Espinoza Martin Wansborough John A. Franks 1-1/81:52.20$55,000
1998Cigar Charlie3 Edgar Prado Michael Dickinson 1-1/81:53.60$55,000
1997 Salt It 3 Carlos Marquez Deborah S. Bonder Deborah S. Bonder1-1/81:51.20$30,000
1996Hey Let's Dance3 Mark T. Johnston Jessica J. Campitelli 7.5 fur.1:31.00$30,000
1995 #Quite Proper3 Mario Verge Leslie G. Glazier 7.5 fur.1:32.20$30,000
1995 #Norstep3 Mark T. Johnston W. Robert Bailes 7.5 fur.1:30.80$30,000
1994Brilliant Prospect3 Allen Stacy Carlos A. Garcia Helmore Racing Partners7.5 fur.1:32.40$30,000

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