Squan Song Stakes
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]
| Restricted Stakes race | |
| Location | Laurel Park Racecourse, Laurel, Maryland, United States |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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:
- 7 furlong - 1:23.00 - Gazillion (2002)
- 1+1⁄8 miles - 1:50.00 - Wait for the Lady (1990)
Most wins by a jockey:
- 4 - Alberto Delgado (1988, 1991, 1992, 2009)
- 3 - Jeremy Rose (2002, 2003, 2006)
Most wins by a trainer:
- 3 - Richard W. Small (2004, 2005, 2007)
Winners of the Squan Song Stakes since 1988
| Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Distance |
Time |
Purse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
References
- "Laurel031911PTS". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-03-21. Purse figures supplied by Laurel Park
- 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 95 on March 3, 2007.