Rowe Memorial Handicap

The Rowe Memorial Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run between 1930 and 1954 at Bowie Race Track in Bowie, Maryland. A six furlong sprint run on dirt, the event was open to horses age three and older.

Rowe Memorial Handicap
Discontinued stakes race race
LocationBowie Race Track, Bowie, Maryland,
United States
Inaugurated1930
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance6 furlongs
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds & up
Purse$10,000

First run on April 5, 1930, the race was originally named to honor James Rowe, a widely respected trainer and future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee who had died in 1929.[1] However, his son James Jr., who had successfully followed in his father's footsteps, died from a heart attack in 1931 at age forty-two and the race name would be shortened to the "Rowe Memorial" to honor both men.

Historical notes

The inaugural James Rowe Memorial Handicap was won by Battleship, a son of the legendary Man o' War. [2] He was bred and raced on the flat by Walter Salmon but who would sell the horse to Marion duPont Scott at the end of 1931. She had Battleship trained for steeplechase racing and in 1934 he won the American Grand National, the most important steeplechase event in the United States. Sent to race in England, in 1938 Battleship became only the second American-bred horse to ever win the world's most prestigious steeplechase race, the Grand National. A 1969 U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, through 2021 Battleship remains the only horse to have won both the American and English Grand Nationals. [3] [4]

Following the United States government's imposition of World War II rationing, the restrictions saw all four Maryland tracks having to run their 1944 spring meets at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course. The April 12, 1944 Rowe Memorial, raced on a muddy track, was won by the increasingly powerful Calumet Farm stable with their colt Pensive who won by a head over runner-up Porter's Cap owned by Charles S. Howard of Seabiscuit fame.[5] Pensive went on to win the May 6, 1944 Kentucky Derby and a week later, the May 13 Preakness Stakes.[6] [7]

The Rowe Memorial was run for the last time on April 17, 1954. For owner Constance Pistorio and her trainer J. Bowes Bond, it marked their third straight win of this event. [8] [9]

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:11.00 @ 6 furlongs: Tuscany (1952)

Most wins:

  • 2 – Tuscany (1952, 1953)

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - J. Bowes Bond (1952, 1953, 1954)

Most wins by an owner:

  • 3 - Constance Pistorio (1952, 1953, 1954)

Winners
Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Dist.
(furlongs)		 Time
 Win
$
1954 Brazen Brat 6 Nick Shuk J. Bowes Bond Constance Pistorio 6 f 1:11.40 $7,100
1953 Tuscany 5 Nick Shuk J. Bowes Bond Constance Pistorio 6 f 1:11.00 $7,700
1952 Tuscany 4 Sam Boulmetis J. Bowes Bond Constance Pistorio 6 f 1:11.60 $7,480
1951 Call Over 4 Robert J. Martin Edward J. Yowell Bedford Stable 6 f 1:12.00 $5,395
1950 The Pincher 4 Ronnie Nash George Mohr Henry H. Hecht 6 f 1:11.80 $6,275
1949 Nearway 4 Nunzio Pariso Thomas H. Heard Jr. Claude C. Tanner 6 f 1:11.60 $7,600
1948 Repand 4 Logan Batcheller James J. Rowan Sylvester W. Labrot Jr. 6 f 1:13.80 $8,175
1947 Scholarship 5 Jack Westrope Kenneth L. W. Force Jr. George G. Gilbert Jr. 6 f 1:13.40 $7,175
1946 Swiv 6 Arnold Kirkland Leo G. O'Donnell Harold C. Genter 6 f 1:12.00 $6,375
1945 Harford 5 Carson Kirk Phillip Brady Ruth McClanaghan 6 f 1:13.00 $3,200
1944 Pensive 3 Conn McCreary Ben A. Jones Calumet Farm 6 f 1:15.00 $6,375
1943 Race not held
1942 Cape Cod 4 George Woolf Raymond B. Archer Grover C. Greer Jr. 6 f 1:12.60 $4,600
1941 Omission 3 Don Meade J. P. "Sammy" Smith Victor Emanuel 6 f 1:14.00 $4,225
1940 Honey Cloud 6 Danny Driscoll Albert J. Abel Dorothy Abel 6 f 1:11.80 $4,175
1939 Rough Time 5 Hilton Dabson J. Yancey Christmas J. Yancey Christmas 6 f 1:13.20 $4,575
1938 Sun Egret 3 Alfred Shelhamer H. Guy Bedwell A. C. Compton 6 f 1:13.80 $4,250
1937 Mucho Gusto 5 Jack Westrope Robert F. Curran Araho Stable (Mr. & Mrs. Walter O'Hara) 6 f 1:13.60 $4,125
1936 Bright Light 3 Harry Richards John J. Greely Jr. Shandon Farm Stables (Patrick A. & Richard J. Nash) 6 f 1:14.00 $2,770
1935 Good Harvest 3 Silvio Coucci Hirsch Jacobs B B Stable (Isidor Bieber) 6 f 1:13.80 $2,530
1934 Soon Over 3 Silvio Coucci William Brennan Greentree Stable 6 f 1:13.00 $2,900
1933 Race not held
1932 Towee 3 John Bejshak Joseph H. Stotler Sagamore Farm Stable 6 f 1:13.00 $3,480
1931 Mynheer 3 Arthur Robertson William E. Caskey Jr. William E. Caskey Jr. 7 f 1:26.20 $3,390
1930 Battleship 3 Louis Schaefer John R. "Jack" Pryce Walter J. Salmon Sr. 7 f 1:27.00 $3,380

References
  1. "James Rowe Memorial Handicap". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1930-04-05. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  2. "Battleship Triumphs: Salmon Colt Accounts for James Rowe Memorial Handicap". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1930-04-07. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  3. racingmuseum.org Hall of Fame Horses" Archived June 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Battleship's Double". The Evening Post. Wellington, New Zealand. 29 March 1938. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  5. "Pensive Takes Rowe Memorial by Head". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1944-04-13. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
  6. "1944". Kentuckyderby.com. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  7. "Pensive Drives Past Platter In Stretch to Win Preakness". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1944-05-15. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
  8. "Stretch Finish By Brazen Brat Wins at Bowie" (PDF). The Washington Star, page C-1 (Library of Congress). 1954-04-18. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  9. "Charts of Yesterday's Races at Bowie" (PDF). The Washington Star, page C-7 (Library of Congress). 1954-04-18. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
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