Little Brown Jug (horse race)
Pacing Triple Crown race | |
Location | County Fairgrounds, Delaware, Ohio, USA |
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Inaugurated | 1946 |
Race type | Harness race for Standardbred pacers |
Website | www |
Race information | |
Distance | 1 mile (1,609 meters or 8 furlongs) |
Surface | Dirt, 1/2 mile oval |
Track | Delaware County Fairgrounds racetrack |
Qualification | 3-year-olds |
The Little Brown Jug is a harness race for three-year-old pacing standardbreds hosted by the Delaware County Agricultural Society since 1946 at the Delaware County Fairgrounds racetrack in Delaware, Ohio. The race takes place every year on the third Thursday after Labor Day. Along with the Hambletonian, a race for trotters, it is one of the two most coveted races for Standardbred horses. The event is named after the Little Brown Jug, a pacer, who won nine consecutive races and became a USTA Hall of Fame Immortal in 1975.[1]
The race is the counterpart to the Jugette for three-year-old fillies.
History[]
It began in 1937 when the Delaware County Agricultural Society's members, at their annual meeting, voted to move the County Fair, held since its inception at Powell, to Delaware on a tract of land at the northern edge of the city. Two years later a half-mile track was built and provided the stage for harness racing. R.K. McNamara, a local contractor, designed and built the lightning fast track. Enter attorney Joe Neville, whose family had been identified with the standardbred sport for many years, and his friend, Henry C. "Hank" Thomson, sports editor of The Delaware Gazette. Neville, who had campaigned horses on the Grand Circuit and was familiar with its officers and stewards, was successful in obtaining Grand Circuit dates for the new Delaware track. Neville, concerned over the years by the emphasis placed on the trotter, turned his efforts toward showcasing the pacers, particularly the 3-year-olds. The Little Brown Jug Society was formed to stage the Grand Circuit meeting. Neville headed the organization with Thomson as secretary-treasurer. Then came the birth of the Little Brown Jug, named through a newspaper contest won by Major Lanning Parsons, with its previews in 1944 and 1945. The initial Jug in 1946, with a purse of $35,358, was won by Ensign Hanover with Delaware's Wayne "Curly" Smart driving. Smart, a most successful trainer-driver on the Grand Circuit, was later to become an integral part of the Jug's operation as the track superintendent. Over the years the track monopolized the half-mile record section with world standard performances, mainly through Smart's skill in maintaining the fastest racing strip of its size in the country.
Through its humble beginnings, the Jug grew slowly to become perhaps the most traditional stake on the pacing gait. In 1956 the Jug provided the anchor for the newly designated Triple Crown of Pacing to go along with The Cane Pace at Yonkers (N.Y.) Raceway and the Messenger Stake then at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, N.Y. [2] The Little Brown Jug is contested in heats. The first heat is split into several divisions, with the top finishers in each division returning to contest the second heat. A horse wins the Little Brown Jug by winning both heats. If a horse does not win both heats, a race off is conducted between the first heat division winners, and the winner of the second heat, to determine the champion.
The Little Brown Jug is the third and final leg of the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers.[3]
Ever since 1946 the administrators of the Little Brown Jug have glazed the winners of the horse race on a jug. In 2005, they ran out of room on the first jug and had to make another one. This time, instead of making it out of clay, they made it out of plastic so it would be lighter. The Little Brown Jug takes place at Delaware county fair (Delaware, OH).
Records[]
- Most wins by a driver
- 5 – Billy Haughton (1955, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1974)
- 5 – Michel Lachance (1988, 1989, 1994, 1997, 2001)
- 5 – David Miller (2003, 2008, 2011, 2016, 2018)
- Most wins by a trainer
- 6 – Billy Haughton (1955, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1985)
- Stakes record
- 1:49 0/0 – (2016)
Little Brown Jug winners[]
Year |
Winner |
Driver |
Trainer |
Owner |
Time |
Purse |
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2019 | Southwind Ozzi | Brian Sears | Bill MacKenzie | Vincent A. Ali, Jr. & Alma Iafelice | 1:50 1/5 | $642,000 |
2018 | Courtly Choice | David Miller | Blake Macintosh | Hutt Racing Stable/Mac & Heim Stables/Piouffe/Touch Stone Farms | 1:49 4/5 | $642,000 |
2017 | Filibuster Hanover | Yannick Gingras | Ron Burke | Burke Racing Stable, J DiScala Jr, J & T Silva Stables and W Bruscemi | 1:50 0/5 | $590,000 |
2016 | David Miller | West Wins Stable, Christine Calhoun, Mac T. Nichol | 1:49 0/5 | $577,000 | ||
2015 | Wiggle It Jiggleit | Montrell Teague | George Teague Jr. Inc. | 1:49 3/5 | $677,000 | |
2014 | Yannick Gingras | Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi, M1 Stable, & Wingfield Bros | 1:50 4/5 | $647,500 | ||
2013 | Brian Sears | Casie Coleman | West Wins Stable, A. Sorella, A. Beaton, P. Saunders | 1:50 0/5 | $552,551 | |
2012 | Scott Zeron | Casie Coleman | 1:50 0/5 | $487,550 | ||
2011 | David Miller | Ron Potter | Winchester Baye Acres | 1:50 0/5 | $526,800 | |
2010 | Daniel Dubé | Bruce Saunders | Frank J. Bellino | 1:49 2/5 | $604,100 | |
2009 | Steve Elliott | Jeffrey S. Snyder & Lothlorien | 1:51 4/5 | $609,150 | ||
2008 | Shadow Play | David Miller | Ian Moore, Serge Savard, R G McGroup | 1:50 1/5 | $555,000 | |
2007 | Jody Jamieson | Blair Burgess | My Desire Stable | 1:52 0/5 | $480,000 | |
2006 | Mark J. MacDonald | Jimmy Takter | Canamerica Cptl, Diversity Stable & Lindy Farm | 1:50 3/5 | $541,000 | |
2005 | Dave Palone | Kelly O'Donnell | M. Maynard, K. O'Donnell & C. Ed Mullinax | 1:52 1/5 | $569,032 | |
2004 | Ronald Pierce | Perfect World Enterprises | 1:51 3/5 | $571,500 | ||
2003 | David Miller | Ivan Sugg | Peter Pan Stables Inc. (Robert Glazer) | 1:53 0/5 | $605,050 | |
2002 | Luc Ouellette | William Robinson | Jeffrey S. Snyder | 1:50 2/5 | $618,625 | |
2001 | Michel Lachance | Scott McEneny | John B. Grant | 1:51 4/5 | $646,050 | |
2000 | Charalambos Christoforou | Brett Pelling | M. Chrysomilas, C. Christoforou & Banjo Farms | 1:55 3/5 | $547,972 | |
1999 | Ronald Pierce | Benjamin Wallace | Daniel Plouffe | 1:55 3/5 | $543,980 | |
1998 | Shady Character | Ronald Pierce | Brett Pelling | Sanford & Corinne Goldfarb | 1:52 3/5 | $566,630 |
1997 | Western Dreamer | Michel Lachance | William Robinson | Matthew J., Patrick J. Jr. & Daniel J. Daly | 1:51 1/5 | $605,210 |
1996 | Jack Moiseyev | Brendan Johnson | Thomas Walsh, Jr. & David McDuffee | 1:52 3/5 | $542,240 | |
1995 | John Campbell | Caroline Lyon | Markenjay Stud | 1:51 2/5 | $543,670 | |
1994 | Michel Lachance | Thomas Haughton | Shadow Lane Farm & David McDuffee | 1:52 3/5 | $512,830 | |
1993 | John Campbell | Gene Riegle | 1:52 0/5 | $465,500 | ||
1992 | Ron Waples | Status Stables Inc. | 1:54 4/5 | $556,210 | ||
1991 | Precious Bunny | Jack Moiseyev | William Robinson | 1:55 0/5 | $575,150 | |
1990 | Beach Towel | Larry Remmen | Uptown Stable | 1:53 3/5 | $468,050 | |
1989 | Michel Lachance | Thomas Artandi | Centre Ice Stable | 1:54 1/5 | $500,200 | |
1988 | Michel Lachance | Thomas Artandi | Sybarite Stable | 1:52 3/5 | $486,050 | |
1987 | Richard Stillings | Charles "Buddy" Stillings | Roy D. Davis & Barberry Farms | 1:55 3/5 | $412,330 | |
1986 | Bill O'Donnell | Richard Stillings | Roy D. Davis & Barberry Farms | 1:52 4/5 | $407,684 | |
1985 | Nihilator | Bill O'Donnell | Billy Haughton | Wall Street Stable & Nihilator Syndicate | 1:52 1/5 | $350,730 |
1984 | Chris Boring | Chris Boring | Proudfoot Farms | 1:55 2/5 | $366,717 | |
1983 | Ralph Hanover | Ron Waples | Ron Waples, , Grants Direct Stables & P. J. Baugh | 1:55 3/5 | $358,800 | |
1982 | John Campbell | John Campbell | J. Campbell, D. Morrisey, P. Oud, W. Muldering | 1:56 3/5 | $328,900 | |
1981 | William Smythe | J. Glen Brown | 1:58 4/5 | $243,779 | ||
1980 | Niatross | Clint Galbraith | Clint Galbraith, Elsie Berger, Niatross Stable | 1:54 4/5 | $207,361 | |
1979 | Hot Hitter | Hervé Filion | Louis Meittinis | Solomon Katz, S A J Ranch Ltd., Alterman Stables | 1:55 3/5 | $226,455 |
1978 | William Popfinger | William Popfinger | Keystone Arbor Stable | 2:00 4/5 | $186,760 | |
1977 | John Chapman | Howard "Buck" Norris | Ivanhoe Stable | 1:56 2/5 | $150,000 | |
1976 | Keystone Ore | Stanley Dancer | Stanley Dancer | F&F Perry, R. Jones, S.F. Dancer, R.L. Dancer & R. Hild | 1:57 2/5 | $153,799 |
1975 | Benny Webster | Lee Benson | Lee Benson | 1:59 4/5 | $147,813 | |
1974 | Billy Haughton | Billy Haughton | 1:58 4/5 | $132,630 | ||
1973 | Joe O'Brien | Joe O'Brien | Thurman Downing | 1:59 2/5 | $120,000 | |
1972 | Strike Out | Keith Waples | John Hayes | Beejay Stable | 1:56 3/5 | $104,916 |
1971 | Hervé Filion | Charles O. Mumford | F. Perry, W. Camp, Jr., Capital Hill Farms | 1:57 2/5 | $102,964 | |
1970 | Most Happy Fella | Stanley Dancer | Stanley Dancer | Egyptian Acres Stable | 1:57 3/5 | $100,110 |
1969 | Laverne Hanover | Billy Haughton | Billy Haughton | Thomas W. Murphy, Jr. | 2:00 2/5 | $109,731 |
1968 | Billy Haughton | Billy Haughton | Louis & Connie Manucuso & Kennilworth Farm | 1:59 3/5 | $104,226 | |
1967 | James Hackett | James Hackett | Samuel Huttenbauer | 2:00 0/5 | $84,778 | |
1966 | Romeo Hanover | Jerry Silverman | Lucky Star Stables & Morton Finder | 1:59 3/5 | $74,616 | |
1965 | Bret Hanover | Frank Ervin | Richard Downing | 1:57 0/5 | $71,447 | |
1964 | Billy Haughton | Billy Haughton | Donald D. MacFarlane | 2:01 0/5 | $66,590 | |
1963 | Overtrick | John F. Patterson, Sr. | Allwood Stable ( & ) | 1:57 3/5 | $68,294 | |
1962 | Stanley Dancer | Stanley Dancer | Lehigh Stables | 1:59 3/5 | $75,039 | |
1961 | Stanley Dancer | Stanley Dancer | Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas Derrico | 2:05 0/5 | $70,069 | |
1960 | John F. Simpson, Sr. | T. W. Murphy, Jr., J. F. Simpson, Hanover Shoe Farm | 1:59 3/5 | $66,510 | ||
1959 | Adios Butler | Paige H. West | Paige H. West & Angelo Pellillo | 2:00 4/5 | $76,582 | |
1958 | Joe O'Brien | Joe O'Brien | 2:01 0/5 | $65,252 | ||
1957 | John F. Simpson, Sr. | John F. Simpson, Sr. | Sherwood Farm | 2:03 4/5 | $73,528 | |
1956 | John F. Simpson, Sr. | John F. Simpson, Sr. | Paul Wixom | 2:00 4/5 | $52,666 | |
1955 | Billy Haughton | Billy Haughton | Farmsted Acres & John Froelich | 2:00 2/5 | $66,608 | |
1954 | Adios Harry | Morris MacDonald | Morris MacDonald | J. Howard Lyons | 2:03 2/5 | $69,322 |
1953 | Frank Ervin | George H. Tipling | 2:09 3/5 | $54,972 | ||
1952 | Delvin Miller | William G. Reynolds | 2:02 3/5 | $60,463 | ||
1951 | Tar Heel | Del Cameron | Delvin Miller | William N. Reynolds Estate | 2:00 0/5 | $66,280 |
1950 | Delvin Miller | Delvin Miller | Hayes Fair Acres | 2:03 2/5 | $56,525 | |
1949 | Frank Ervin | Frank Ervin | William H. Cane | 2:03 2/5 | $58,281 | |
1948 | Franklin E. Safford | & Gray Bros | 2:07 1/5 | $47,528 | ||
1947 | Del Cameron | Del Cameron | Newport Stock Farm | 2:05 0/5 | $38,200 | |
1946 | T. Wayne Smart | Sep Palin | Castleton Farm | 2:07 1/5 | $35,358 |
References[]
- ^ THE EARLY CHAMPIONS Archived 2010-10-09 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2010-11-19
- ^ http://www.littlebrownjug.com
- ^ Little Brown Jug - official Records & Stats retrieved October 11, 2016
Coordinates: 40°19′01″N 83°04′29″W / 40.31687°N 83.074807°W
- Recurring sporting events established in 1946
- Harness races in the United States
- Harness races for three-year-old pacers
- United States Triple Crown of Harness Racing
- Tourist attractions in Delaware County, Ohio
- Horse racing in Ohio
- 1946 establishments in Ohio
- Delaware, Ohio