McLennan Handicap
Discontinued stakes race | |
Location | Hialeah Park Race Track Hialeah, Florida, United States |
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Inaugurated | 1934 |
Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
Race information | |
Distance | 1+1⁄8 miles (9 furlongs) |
Surface | Dirt |
Track | left-handed |
Qualification | Three-years-old & up |
Weight | Assigned |
The McLennan Handicap was an American thoroughbred horse race run annually each February from 1934–1961 at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida. First run in 1934 as the Joseph McLennan Memorial Handicap, the race was named In honor of the late Joseph "Sandy" McLennan, the former racing secretary at Hialeah Park and at Chicago's Arlington Park who died in December 1933.[1] In winning the first edition in 1934, Col. Edward R. Bradley's equaled the world record for a mile and an eighth on dirt.[2] In 1938 the race name was shortened to the McLennan Memorial Handicap and shortened again in 1948 to the McLennan Handicap.
In 1941 the race had twenty-five entries and had to be run in two divisions.
Records[]
Speed record:
- - 1:47.20
Most wins by a jockey:
- 2 - James Stout (1938, 1952)
- 2 - Ted Atkinson (1944, 1949)
Most wins by a trainer:
- 5 - Horace A. Jones (1947, 1949, 1958, 1960, 1961)
Most wins by an owner:
- 6 - Calumet Farm (1944, 1947, 1949, 1958, 1960, 1961)
Winners[]
Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Dist. (Miles) |
Time | ||
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1961 | 4 | Johnny Sellers | Horace A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.00 | |||
1960 | On-and-On | 4 | Steve Brooks | Horace A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.80 | ||
1959 | 6 | Howard Grant | Roy E. Faircloth | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.00 | ||||
1958 | Iron Liege | 4 | Bill Hartack | Horace A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.00 | ||
1957 | Summer Tan | 5 | David Erb | Sherrill W. Ward | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.80 | |||
1956 | Switch On | 5 | Bobby Ussery | John A. Nerud | Gerald S. Colella | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.40 | ||
1955 | 5 | Eric Guerin | William C. Winfrey | Alfred G. Vanderbilt II | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.40 | |||
1954 | 6 | Sam Boulmetis | David J. Schneider | David J. Schneider | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.00 | |||
1953 | Crafty Admiral | 5 | Kenny Church | Charfran Stable (Charles & Frances Cohen) | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:53.40 | |||
1952 | 4 | James Stout | Frank Catrone | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:47.20 | ||||
1951 | 6 | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.40 | ||||||
1950 | 5 | Hedley Woodhouse | Willie Knapp | Evelyn L. Hopkins | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:50.20 | |||
1949 | Coaltown | 4 | Ted Atkinson | Horace A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.40 | ||
1948 | 4 | Roscoe Troxler | Daniel Lamont | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.40 | ||||
1947 | Armed | 6 | Douglas Dodson | Horace A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:50.00 | ||
1946 | 4 | Barney A. Murphy | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.60 | |||||
1945 | Race not held | ||||||||
1944 | 5 | Ted Atkinson | Ben A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:52.20 | |||
1943 | Race not held | ||||||||
1942 | Market Wise | 4 | Wendell Eads | Louis Tufano | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:50.80 | |||
1941 | 4 | Conn McCreary | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.00 | |||||
1941 | Big Pebble | 5 | George Seabo | William B. Finnegan | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.80 | |||
1940 | 5 | Ruperto Donoso | Leo J. Marks | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:50.60 | ||||
1939 | Stagehand | 4 | Jack Westrope | Earl Sande | H. Maxwell Howard | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.20 | ||
1938 | Piccolo | 5 | James Stout | R. A. Moore | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:50.60 | |||
1937 | 5 | Charles Kurtsinger | Bert S. Michell | Mrs. Emil Denemark | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.80 | |||
1936 | 4 | John Longden | Edward F. Seagram | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.20 | ||||
1935 | 4 | Edward F. Seagram | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.20 | |||||
1934 | 3 | Don Meade | Herbert J. Thompson | Edward R. Bradley | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.40 |
References[]
- Discontinued horse races
- Horse races in Florida
- Hialeah Park
- Widener family
- Recurring sporting events established in 1934
- Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1961
- 1934 establishments in Florida
- 1961 disestablishments in Florida