Champion Stakes (United States)

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Champion Stakes
Discontinued stakes race
LocationLong Branch Racetrack
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States
Inaugurated1879
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance1+1⁄2 miles (12 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationAll ages
WeightAssigned

The Champion Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in August at the Monmouth Park Association's racetrack in Long Branch, New Jersey. Inaugurated in 1879, the Champion Stakes was open to horses of any age and was raced on dirt over a distance of one and one half miles (12 furlongs).

In 1891, the races at Long Branch had to be shifted to racetracks in New York when government legislation attempted to inhibit parimutuel wagering. The races were split between the Jerome Park Racetrack in Fordham, Bronx and at the nearby Morris Park Racecourse at Westchester Village.[1] The Monmouth Park Racing Association closed and the land sold after its operating license was revoked in 1893 and government legislation was enacted that banned parimutuel wagering.[2]

In the final running of the Champion Stakes in 1892, Lamplighter set a new stakes and track record.

Records[]

Speed record:

Most wins:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - James G. Rowe, Sr. (1880, 1881, 1884)
  • 3 - (1888, 1990, 1991)

Most wins by an owner:

Winners[]

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Dist.
(Miles) 		Time
1892 Lamplighter 3 Willie Simms John Huggins Pierre Lorillard IV 11⁄2 2:32.75
1891 Firenze 7 James Ben Ali Haggin 11⁄2 2:38.50
1890 Salvator 4 Isaac Burns Murphy James Ben Ali Haggin 11⁄2 2:35.50
1889 4 Santa Anita Stables 11⁄2 2:54.00
1888 Firenze 4 Edward H. Garrison James Ben Ali Haggin 11⁄2 2:35.00
1887 Hanover 3 Jim McLaughlin Frank McCabe Dwyer Brothers Stable 11⁄2 2:38.00
1886 4 Isaac Burns Murphy Santa Anita Stables 11⁄2 2:45.00
1885 6 Jim Murphy Edward Corrigan 11⁄2 2:36.00
1884 Miss Woodford 4 Jim McLaughlin James G. Rowe, Sr. Dwyer Brothers Stable 11⁄2 2:40.25
1883 7 R. Wyndham Walden George L. Lorillard 11⁄2 2:36.25
1882 Eole 4 George Barbee Evert V. Snedecker Frederick Gebhard 11⁄2 2:43.75
1881 Hindoo 3 Jim McLaughlin James G. Rowe, Sr. Dwyer Brothers Stable 11⁄2 2:39.00
1880 Luke Blackburn 3 Jim McLaughlin James G. Rowe, Sr. Dwyer Brothers Stable 11⁄2 2:34.00
1879 Spendthrift 3 Frank Shelton James R. Keene 11⁄2 2:41.50

Notes[]

  1. ^ "No Races at Long Branch; Stake Dates Fixed for Morris and Jerome Park Tracks. The Monmouth Park Racing Association Abandons Hope of Racing at ITS Own Track and Prepares for ITS Summer Campaign Here". The New York Times. 29 June 1891.
  2. ^ "MONMOUTH PArk's LICENSE REVOKED.; Action Taken by the Local Authorities in August Just Made Public". The New York Times. 26 December 1893.

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