Mac Diarmida Stakes

The Mac Diarmida Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for horses four-years-old and older run over a distance of one-and-three-eighth miles (11 furlongs) on the turf, annually in February at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. The current purse is $200,000.[1]

Mac Diarmida Stakes
Grade II race
LocationGulfstream Park
Hallandale Beach, Florida, United States
Inaugurated1995
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewww.gulfstreampark.com
Race information
Distance1+3⁄8 miles (11 furlongs)
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationFour-year-olds and older
Weight124 lbs with allowances
Purse$200,000 (since 2014)

History

The event was inaugurated on 16 January 1995 for three-year-olds at a distance of 1 mile and 70 yards and was held on the dirt track.[2]

The race was named in honor of Florida-bred Mac Diarmida who was the American Champion Male Turf Horse of 1978.[3] The following year, in 1996 the event was lengthened slightly to one-and-one-sixteenth miles and run on the turf.

It was run as a handicap from 1997 through 2008 but is now run under allowance weight conditions. The event was upgraded to Grade III in 1997.[4] In 1997, wet weather forced the race to be moved from the turf course to the main dirt track and set at a distance of one-and-one-quarter miles with conditions changed to allow horses four years old and older. In 1998 the race was changed to its present distance of one-and-three-eighths miles.[1]

The race was not run in 2001.[1] The event was upgraded once again in 2007 to Grade II.[4] The event was originally held in January but since 2017 has been run in late February or early March.[1]

Records
Speed record
  • 1+3⁄8 miles — 2:10.87 Stream of Gold (IRE) (2008)
Margins
  • 4+1⁄4 lengths — Panama City (1999)
Most wins
Most wins by an owner
  • 3 - Michael M. Hui (2019, 2020, 2023)
Most wins by a jockey
Most wins by a trainer
  • 4 - Michael J. Maker (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)

Winners
Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer Owner Distance Time Purse Grade Ref
Mac Diarmida Stakes
2023 Value Engineering 7 Jose L. Ortiz Michael J. Maker Michael M. Hui & Phil Forte 1+3⁄8 miles 2:14.20 $200,000 II [5]
2022 Temple 6 Jose L. Ortiz Michael J. Maker Paradise Farms & David Staudacher abt. 1+3⁄8 miles 2:15.30 $200,000 II [6]
2021 Phantom Currency 5 Paco Lopez Bryan Lynch Jim & Susan Hill 1+3⁄8 miles 2:13.84 $200,000 II [7]
2020 Zulu Alpha 7 Tyler Gaffalione Michael J. Maker Michael M. Hui 1+3⁄8 miles 2:11.47 $200,000 II [8]
2019 Zulu Alpha 6 Irad Ortiz Jr. Michael J. Maker Michael M. Hui 1+3⁄8 miles 2:16.39 $200,000 II [9]
2018 Sadler's Joy 5 Julien R. Leparoux Thomas Albertrani Woodslane Farm 1+3⁄8 miles 2:12.93 $200,000 II [10]
2017 Wake Forest (GER) 7 Javier Castellano Chad C. Brown Michael Dubb, Sheep Pond Partners, Bethlehem Stables 1+3⁄8 miles 2:13.54 $200,000 II [11]
2016 Grand Tito 6 Emisael Jaramillo Gustavo Delgado Grupo 7C Racing Stable 1+3⁄8 miles 2:12.55 $200,000 II [12]
2015 Main Sequence 6 Rajiv Maragh H. Graham Motion Flaxman Holdings 1+3⁄8 miles 2:15.06 $200,000 II [13]
2014 Twilight Eclipse 5 Jose Lezcano Thomas Albertrani West Point Thoroughbreds 1+3⁄8 miles 2:15.18 $200,000 II [14]
2013 Amira's Prince (IRE) 4 John R. Velazquez William I. Mott Wachtel Stable, Eclipse Thoroughbred & Gary Barber 1+3⁄8 miles 2:17.14 $150,000 II [15]
2012 Simmard 7 Javier Castellano Roger L. Attfield Roger L. Attfield & William Werner 1+3⁄8 miles 2:11.71 $150,000 II [16]
2011 Prince Will I Am 4 John R. Velazquez Michelle Nihei Casa Farms I 1+3⁄8 miles 2:13.04 $150,000 II [17]
2010 Presious Passion 7 Elvis Trujillo Mary Hartmann Patricia A. Generazio 1+3⁄8 miles 2:13.49 $150,000 II [18]
2009 Presious Passion 6 Elvis Trujillo Mary Hartmann Patricia A. Generazio 1+3⁄8 miles 2:12.10 $150,000 II [19]
Mac Diarmida Handicap
2008 Stream of Gold (IRE) 7 Eddie Castro Kiaran P. McLaughlin Zabeel Racing 1+3⁄8 miles 2:10.87 $150,000 II [20]
2007 Ramazutti 5 John R. Velazquez Anthony J. Sciametta Jr. Anstu Stable 1+3⁄8 miles 2:11.86 $150,000 II [21]
2006 Hotstufanthensome 6 Rajiv Maragh Nathan W. Sinclair Running Horse Farm 1+3⁄8 miles 2:10.90 $100,000 III [22]
2005 Host 5 Javier Castellano John C. Kimmel Caesar P. Kimmel, Philip J. Solondz & C G Zoe Stable 1+3⁄8 miles 2:12.83 $100,000 III [23]
2004 Request for Parole 5 Jose A. Santos Stanley M. Hough Jeri & Sam Knighton 1+3⁄8 miles 2:12.58 $100,000 III [24]
2003 Riddlesdown (IRE) 6 Roger I. Velez Niall M. O'Callaghan Gary A. Tanaka 1+3⁄8 miles 2:14.75 $100,000 III [25]
2002 Crash Course 6 Jerry D. Bailey Jimmy Croll J. Mack Robinson 1+3⁄8 miles 2:16.27 $100,000 III [26]
2001 Race not held
2000 Unite's Big Red 6 Jorge F. Chavez Randy Mills Breakaway Racing Stable 1+3⁄8 miles 2:12.14 $100,000 III [27]
1999 Panama City 5 Jerry D. Bailey William I. Mott Robert Sangster & Joseph LaCombe abt. 1+3⁄8 miles 2:20.65 $100,000 III [28]
1998 Copy Editor 6 Jerry D. Bailey Martin D. Wolfson Team Valor 1+3⁄8 miles 2:16.72 $100,000 III [29]
1997 Mecke 5 Jerry D. Bailey Emanuel Tortora James Lewis Jr. 1+1⁄4 miles 2:05.80 $72,750 III [30]
Mac Diarmida Stakes
1996 A Real Zipper 3 Aaron Gryder Ronald B. Spatz Horses of Course 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.66 $50,000 Listed For 3YO Only[31]
1995 Kings Fiction 3 Robbie Davis H. Allen Jerkens Hardwick Stables 1 mile & 70 yards 1:43.12 $50,000 Listed For 3YO Only[2]

Legend:
  Turf   Dirt

See also

List of American and Canadian Graded races

References
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