Deputy Minister Handicap
Grade III race | |
Location | Gulfstream Park Hallandale Beach, Florida, United States |
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Inaugurated | 1990 |
Race type | Thoroughbred – Flat racing |
Website | www |
Race information | |
Distance | 6.5 furlong sprint |
Surface | Dirt |
Track | left-handed |
Qualification | Four-years-old & up |
Weight | Assigned |
Purse | $100,000 |
The Deputy Minister Handicap was a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in early February at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. The race was open to horses age four and older and contested on dirt over a distance of six and one-half furlongs.
The race was named in honor of Deputy Minister who raced in Florida and won Gulfstream Park's Donn Handicap. Deputy Minister was the 1981 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and the Canadian Two-Year Old Champion and Canadian Horse of the Year and was the Leading sire in North America in 1997 and 1998 and the Leading broodmare sire in North America in 2007.
Since inception, the event has been contested at different distances:
- 6 furlongs: 1994–1998
- 6.5 furlongs : 2000 to present
- 7 furlongs : 1990–1993, 1998–1999
The race is not on the 2008 list of stakes races at Gulfstream Park.
Records[]
Speed record: (at current distance of 6.5 furlongs)
- 1:15.17 – (2003)
Winners since 2000[]
Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Time |
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2007 | 4 | John Velazquez | et al. | 1:15:72 | ||
2006 | 5 | Manoel Cruz | Universal Xperience | 1:16.48 | ||
2005 | 4 | José A. Santos | H. Allen Jerkens | Robert Clay | 1:15.62 | |
2004 | 4 | John Velazquez | Todd A. Pletcher | K. D. English/A. Braun | 1:15.80 | |
2003 | 5 | Cornelio Velásquez | Michael Gill | 1:15.17 | ||
2002 | 5 | Jorge Chavez | Irving & Marjorie Cowan | 1:16.19 | ||
2001 | 5 | Jerry Bailey | Mark Hennig | Shadwell Racing | 1:16.08 | |
2000 | Deep Gold | 4 | John Velazquez | N. Chowhan & J. L. Millan | 1:15.89 |
Earlier winners[]
- 1999 – Good And Tough
- 1998 – Irish Conquest
- 1997 –
- 1996 – Jess C's Whirl
- 1995 – Chimes Band
- 1994 – I Can't Believe
- 1993 – Loach
- 1992 – Take Me Out
- 1991 – Unbridled
- 1990 – Beau Genius
- Graded stakes races in the United States
- Horse races in Florida
- Gulfstream Park
- Recurring sporting events established in 1990
- Recurring events disestablished in 2007
- 1990 establishments in Florida
- 2007 disestablishments in Florida