Find Handicap

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Find Stakes
Ungraded Stakes race
LocationLaurel Park Racecourse,
Laurel, Maryland,
United States
Inaugurated1978
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewww.laurelpark.com
Race information
Distance1+18 miles (9 furlongs)
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationThree-years-old & up
WeightAssigned
Purse$60,000

The Find Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Maryland's Laurel Park Racecourse. It is open to horses ages three and older and is contested on turf over a distance of one and one eighth miles.

The race is named in honor of , who ranked as Maryland's all-time money winner from 1950 through 1982, when he was surpassed by Jameela. Find was a durable gelding owned by Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who earned $803,615 over eight years racing. He started in 110 races, winning 22 times with 27 seconds and 27 third-place finishes. He won or placed in 51 stakes races.[1]

Find was born and raised at venerable Sagamore Farm in Glyndon, Maryland. He was born in the same foal crop of 1950 at Sagamore that produced Vanderbilt-bred stakes winners Native Dancer and Social Outcast. Find was retired from racing and pensioned at Sagamore Farm, where he lived out his days as a companion for the farm's barren and maiden mares until his death in 1979 at the age of 29.

The race was inaugurated and run for the seven times at Maryland State Fair from 1978 through 1984 at only 6+12 furlongs on the main dirt track. The race was also taken off the turf in 1993, 1994, 2000 and 2004 due to the condition of the turf as a result of inclement weather.

Records[]

Speed record:

  • 1+18 miles - 1:46.00 - Le Reine's Terms (2002)
  • 6+12 furlongs - 1:17.00 - Happy Chef (1984)

Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 - Mario Pino (1988, 1999 & 2005)
  • 3 - (2002, 2003 & 2006)

Most wins by a trainer:

  • 5 - (1993, 2001, 2002, 2003 & 2004)

Winners of the Find Handicap since 1978[]

Year
Winner
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Dist.
Time
Purse
Gr.
2015 Plash Phelps Rodney Jenkins Hillwood Stables 1-1/8 1:49.11 $60,000
2014 No Race No Race No Race No Race no race 0:00.00 no race
2013 No Race No Race No Race No Race no race 0:00.00 no race
2012 No Race No Race No Race No Race no race 0:00.00 no race
2011 Concealed Identity Linda Gaudet/
Morris Bailey
1-1/8 1:53.51 $60,000
2010 Ben's Cat King T. Leatherbury The Jim Stable 1-1/8 1:52.20 $50,000
2009 Sarto Mathew Moran 1-1/8 1:51.04 $50,000
2008 Headsandtales Skeedattle Associates 1-1/8 1:48.06 $50,000
2007 Headsandtales Jonathan Joyce Skeedattle Associates 1-1/8 1:49.80 $50,000
2006 Private Scandal Ioannis Korologos 1-1/8 1:49.40 $75,000
2005 Private Scandal Mario Pino Gary Sciacca Ioannis Korologos 1-1/8 1:49.00 $75,000
2004 Foufa's Warrior Steve Hamilton Sondra & Howard Bender 1-1/8 1:50.00 $75,000
2003 Certantee 1-1/8 1:52.00 $75,000
2002 La Reine's Terms Sondra & Howard Bender 1-1/8 1:46.00 $75,000
2001 La Reine's Terms Sondra & Howard Bender 1-1/8 1:50.00 $75,000
2000 Crosspatch 1-1/8 1:50.20 $75,000
1999 Cynics Beware Mario Pino 1-1/8 1:48.40 $75,000
1998 Winsox 1-1/8 1:50.00 $75,000
1997 Warning Glance Mark Johnston 1-1/8 1:48.80 $75,000
1996 Edgar Prado Bonita Farm & Lynn Brown 1-1/8 1:49.20 $75,000
1995 Warning Glance Mark Johnston 1-1/8 1:49.20 $75,000
1994 Jest Punching 1-1/8 1:51.20 $75,000
1993 Maryland Moon 1-1/8 1:49.80 $75,000
1992 Gala Spinaway 1-1/8 1:52.40 $75,000
1991 Rebuff C. Juarez 1-1/8 1:47.20 $75,000
1990 Rum and Gold Alberto Delgado 1-1/8 1:54.80 $75,000
1989 Ten Keys Kent Desormeaux Charles Linhoss 1-1/8 1:51.00 $75,000
1988 Ten Keys Mario Pino Charles Linhoss 1-1/8 1:53.00 $75,000
1987 Kitchener's Reward 1-1/8 1:49.00 $60,000
1986 Due North Alberto Delgado 1-1/8 1:49.80 $60,000
1985 Rolling Road Donnie A. Miller Jr. 1-1/8 1:50.60 $60,000
1984 Happy Chef F. Manco 6.5 fur. 1:17.00 $25,000
1983 Me Darlin Anna B. William Passmore 6.5 fur. 1:17.20 $25,000
1982 Love to Laugh A. Agnello 6.5 fur. 1:18.40 $25,000
1981 Double Door Prize 6.5 fur. 1:18.60 $30,000
1980 Janet's Liebe A. Berreira 6.5 fur. 1:18.60 $30,000
1979 Ashanti Gold G. Longa 1-1/8 1:19.40 $15,000
1978 Rock'n Rollick R. Fitzgerald 1-1/8 1:17.80 $15,000

See also[]

  • Laurel Park Racecourse

References[]

  1. ^ 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 166 on March 3, 2007.

External links[]

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