Queens County Handicap
Ungraded race | |
Location | Aqueduct Racetrack Queens, New York, United States |
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Inaugurated | 1902 |
Race type | Thoroughbred – Flat racing |
Website | www |
Race information | |
Distance | 1+3⁄8 miles (9 furlongs) |
Surface | Dirt |
Track | left-handed |
Qualification | Three-years-old & up |
Weight | Assigned |
Purse | US$125,000 (2016) |
The Queens County Handicap is an American Ungraded Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the second week of December at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. Open to horses age three years and older, it is contested on dirt at a distance of one and three-sixteenths miles (9.5 furlongs).
Inaugurated in 1902, the Queens County Handicap is one of America's oldest races still running. It was hosted by Belmont Park in 1946 and at the old Jamaica Racetrack in Jamaica, Queens, New York from 1956 to 1958. Since inception it has been contested at various distances:
- 1 mile, 70 yards : 1902–1903
- 1 mile : 1904–1939, 1959–1963
- 1+1⁄16 miles : 1940–1958, 1993
- 1+1⁄8 miles: 1964–1971, 2012 – present
- 1+3⁄16 miles : 1972–1992, 1994–2011
The Queens County is, like many races at Aqueduct, named for a New York City borough. Queens is the borough that includes the Aqueduct race track. It is also the largest of New York City's five boroughs.
There was no race run in 1909, and from 1911 through 1913. The race, once a graded stakes, has lost that status.
Historical notes[]
In winning the 1916 Queens County Handicap, Short Grass set a new United States record of 1:36 2/5 for one mile over a dirt course with a turn.[1]
In 2001, three-year-old Evening Attire won the race. Six years later he came back to win it again at age nine, making him the oldest horse to ever win the Queens County Handicap.
Records[]
Speed record: (at distance of 1+3⁄16 miles)
- 1:54.40 – Sunny And Mild (1972)
Most wins:
- 2 – Roamer (1915, 1918)
- 2 – Halcyon (1931, 1932)
- 2 – (1949, 1950)
- 2 – Evening Attire (2001, 2007)
Most wins by a jockey:
- 5 – Eddie Maple (1977, 1979, 1985, 1986, 1991)
Most wins by a trainer:
- 5 – Sam Hildreth (1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925)
Most wins by an owner:
- 4 – Rancocas Stable (1922, 1923, 1924, 1925)
Winners[]
Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Dist. (Miles) |
Time |
Gr. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2021 | Forewarned | 6 | Dexter Haddock | Uriah St.Lewis | Uriah St.Lewis | 1-1/8 | 1:51.90 | |
2020 | Backsideofthemoon | 8 | Jose Lezcano | Rudy R. Rodriguez | Repole Stable | 1-1/8 | 1:50.72 | |
2019 | Stan The Man | 5 | Dylan Davis | John P. Terranova II | Long Lake Stable LLC | 1-1/8 | 1:50.72 | |
2018 | Name Changer | 5 | David Cohen | Alan E. Goldberg | Colts Neck Stables LLC | 1-1/8 | 1:53.87 | |
2017 | Zanotti | 4 | Jorge A. Vargas Jr. | Juan Carlos Guerrero | Ten Strike Racing | 1-1/8 | 1:51.64 | |
2016 | 4 | Loooch Racing Stables & Imaginary Stables et al. | 1-1/8 | 1:52.56 | ||||
2015 | 4 | Irad Ortiz Jr. | Chad C. Brown | Klaravich Stables/William Lawrence | 1-1/8 | 1:49.60 | ||
2014 | 4 | Manuel Franco | Todd Pletcher | Repole Stable | 1-1/8 | 1:51.76 | ||
2013 | Jonesy Boy | 4 | Rajiv Maragh | Kelly Breen | George & Lori Hall | 1-1/8 | 1:52.02 | |
2012 | San Pablos | 4 | Todd Pletcher | Burning Sands Stable | 1-1/8 | 1:51.84 | ||
2011 | Ron the Greek | 4 | Junior Alvarado | Bill Mott | Brous Stable/Wachtel Stable/Hammer | 1-3/16 | 1:56.84 | G3 |
2010 | More Than a Reason | 5 | Eddie Castro | Randy Persaud | Anthony Calabrese | 1-3/16 | 1:57.69 | G3 |
2009 | Rodman | 4 | Javier Castellano | Barry K. Schwartz | 1-3/16 | 1:57.00 | G3 | |
2008 | Researcher | 4 | Mike Luzzi | Jeff C. Runco | Rutledge Farm | 1-3/16 | 1:55.87 | G3 |
2007 | Evening Attire | 9 | Edgar Prado | T. J. Kelly/Joseph & Mary Grant | 1-3/16 | 1:58.01 | G3 | |
2006 | Magna Graduate | 4 | John Velazquez | Todd Pletcher | 1-3/16 | 1:55.19 | G3 | |
2005 | Philanthropist | 4 | Eibar Coa | Claude R. McGaughey III | Phipps Stable | 1-3/16 | 1:56.99 | G3 |
2004 | Classic Endeavor | 6 | Aaron Gryder | Richard E. Dutrow Jr. | Sullivan Lane, Scuderi | 1-3/16 | 1:57.13 | G3 |
2003 | Thunder Blitz | 5 | Jorge F. Chavez | Richard E. Dutrow Jr. | Stronach Stable | 1-3/16 | 1:55.90 | G3 |
2002 | Snake Mountain | 4 | José A. Santos | James A. Jerkens | Berkshire Stud, et al. | 1-3/16 | 1:56.84 | G3 |
2001 | Evening Attire | 3 | Shaun Bridgmohan | Mary Grant | 1-3/16 | 1:55.08 | G3 | |
2000 | Boston Party | 4 | Ann Fostock | 1-3/16 | 1:56.32 | G3 | ||
1999 | Early Warning | 4 | Jorge F. Chavez | Todd Pletcher | Dogwood Stable | 1-3/16 | 1:55.03 | G3 |
1998 | Fire King | 5 | Frank Lovato Jr. | Schwartz & Hauman | 1-3/16 | 1:56.88 | G3 | |
1997 | Mr. Sinatra | 3 | Richard Migliore | Barbara J. Davis | 1-3/16 | 1:55.68 | G3 | |
1996 | Topsy Robsy | 4 | Paula-Keim Bruno | H. Allen Jerkens | Hobeau Farm | 1-3/16 | 1:55.30 | G3 |
1995 | Aztec Empire | 5 | Jean-Luc Samyn | H. Allen Jerkens | Hobeau Farm | 1-3/16 | 1:55.56 | G3 |
1994 | Federal Funds | 5 | Murray M. Garren | Murray M. Garren | 1-3/16 | 1:56.42 | G3 | |
1993 | Repletion | 4 | Mike E. Smith | William I. Mott | Bud C. Hatfield | 1-3/16 | 1:44.35 | G3 |
1992 | Shots Are Ringing | 5 | John Velazquez | Jewel E. Stable | 1-3/16 | 1:54.90 | G3 | |
1991 | Nome | 5 | Eddie Maple | James Riccio | 1-3/16 | 1:56.00 | G3 | |
1990 | Sport View | 3 | Craig Perret | D. Wayne Lukas | Edward A. Cox Jr. | 1-3/16 | 1:57.00 | G3 |
1989 | Its Academic | 5 | Jerry D. Bailey | Luis Barrera | Marcus Vogel | 1-3/16 | 1:58.00 | G3 |
1988 | Lay Down | 4 | Jean-Luc Samyn | Claude R. McGaughey III | Ogden Mills Phipps | 1-3/16 | 1:57.20 | G3 |
1987 | Personal Flag | 4 | Randy Romero | Claude R. McGaughey III | Ogden Phipps | 1-3/16 | 1:59.00 | G3 |
1986 | Pine Belt | 4 | Eddie Maple | Loblolly Stable | 1-3/16 | 1:57.20 | G3 | |
1985 | Late Act | 6 | Eddie Maple | Robert Reinacher | Greentree Stable | 1-3/16 | 1:55.80 | G3 |
1984 | Puntivo | 4 | Robbie Davis | Edward I. Kelly | Kalmia Hill Stable | 1-3/16 | 1:58.00 | G3 |
1983 | Country Pine | 3 | Jerry Bailey | 1-3/16 | 1:58.00 | G3 | ||
1982 | Bar Dexter | 5 | Jeffrey Fell | Woodside Stud | 1-3/16 | 1:58.20 | G3 | |
1981 | French Cut | 4 | Don MacBeth | Robert DeBonis | Gertrude A. Martin | 1-3/16 | 1:56.40 | |
1980 | Fool's Prayer | 5 | Jorge Velásquez | Darby Dan Farm | 1-3/16 | 1:56.00 | ||
1979 | Dewan Keys | 4 | Eddie Maple | Philip G. Johnson | Joseph O. Morrissey | 1-3/16 | 1:56.80 | G3 |
1978 | Cum Laude Laurie | 4 | Ángel Cordero Jr. | 1-3/16 | 1:55.80 | G3 | ||
1977 | Cox's Ridge | 3 | Eddie Maple | Loblolly Stable | 1-3/16 | 1:55.80 | G3 | |
1976 | It's Freezing | 4 | Jacinto Vásquez | 1-3/16 | 1:56.60 | G3 | ||
1975 | Hail The Pirates | 5 | Ron Turcotte | 1-3/16 | 1:55.60 | G3 | ||
1974 | Free Hand | 4 | Pancho Martin | Sigmund Sommer | 1-3/16 | 1:55.00 | G2 | |
1973 | True Knight | 4 | Ángel Cordero Jr. | Darby Dan Farm | 1-3/16 | 1:55.00 | G2 | |
1972 | Sunny And Mild | 3 | Michael Venezia | W. Preston King | Harry Rogosin | 1-3/16 | 1:54.40 | |
1971 | Red Reality | 5 | Jorge Velásquez | MacKenzie Miller | Cragwood Stables | 1-1/8 | 1:49.60 | |
1970 | Best Turn | 4 | Larry Adams | Reggie Cornell | Calumet Farm | 1-1/8 | 1:50.00 | |
1969 | Vif | 4 | Larry Adams | Harvey Peltier Sr. | 1-1/8 | 1:49.20 | ||
1968 | Irish Dude | 4 | Sandino Hernandez | Jack Bradley | Richard W. Taylor | 1-1/8 | 1:49.60 | |
1967 | Mr. Right | 4 | Heliodoro Gustines | Cheray Duchin | 1-1/8 | 1:49.60 | ||
1966 | Amberoid | 3 | Walter Blum | Lucien Laurin | Reginald N. Webster | 1-1/8 | 1:50.60 | |
1965 | Prairie Schooner | 4 | Eddie Belmonte | James W. Smith | High Tide Stable | 1-1/8 | 1:50.20 | |
1964 | Third Martini | 5 | William Boland | H. Allen Jerkens | Hobeau Farm | 1-1/8 | 1:50.60 | |
1963 | Uppercut | 4 | Manuel Ycaza | Willard C. Freeman | William Harmonay | 1-1/8 | 1:35.40 | |
1962 | Grid Iron Hero | 3 | Manuel Ycaza | Laz Barrera | Emil Dolce | 1 mile | 1:34.00 | |
1961 | Manassa Mauler | 5 | Braulio Baeza | Pancho Martin | Emil Dolce | 1 mile | 1:36.20 | |
1960 | Cranberry Sauce | 3 | Heliodoro Gustines | Walter A. Kelley | Elmendorf Farm | 1 mile | 1:36.20 | |
1959 | Whitley | 4 | Eric Guerin | Max Hirsch | 1 mile | 1:36.40 | ||
1958 | Oh Johnny | 5 | William Boland | Mrs. Wallace Gilroy | 1-1/16 | 1:43.40 | ||
1957 | Bold Ruler | 3 | Eddie Arcaro | James E. Fitzsimmons | Wheatley Stable | 1-1/16 | 1:42.80 | |
1956 | Blessbull | 5 | Woody Stephens | Morris Sims | 1-1/16 | 1:42.00 | ||
1955 | Fabulist | 4 | Ted Atkinson | William C. Winfrey | High Tide Stable | 1-1/16 | 1:43.60 | |
1954 | Find | 4 | Eric Guerin | William C. Winfrey | Alfred G. Vanderbilt II | 1-1/16 | 1:44.00 | |
1953 | Flaunt | 4 | Arnold Skjeveland | 1-1/16 | 1:44.20 | |||
1952 | County Delight | 5 | Dave Gorman | James E. Ryan | Rokeby Stable | 1-1/16 | 1:43.60 | |
1951 | Sheilas Reward | 4 | Ovie Scurlock | Eugene Jacobs | Mrs. Louis Lazare | 1-1/16 | 1:44.60 | |
1950 | 5 | Hedley Woodhouse | Willie Knapp | Mrs. Evelyn L. Hopkins | 1-1/16 | 1:44.60 | ||
1949 | 4 | Ted Atkinson | Willie Knapp | Mrs. Evelyn L. Hopkins | 1-1/16 | 1:47.40 | ||
1948 | Knockdown | 5 | Tom Smith | Maine Chance Farm | 1-1/16 | 1:44.60 | ||
1947 | Gallorette | 5 | Job Dean Jessop | Edward A. Christmas | William L. Brann | 1-1/16 | 1:45.40 | |
1946 | Helioptic | 4 | William Goadby Loew | 1-1/16 | 1:43.20 | |||
1945 | Olympic Zenith | 4 | Conn McCreary | William G. Helis | 1-1/16 | 1:45.60 | ||
1944 | First Fiddle | 5 | Johnny Longden | Mrs. Edward Mulrenan | 1-1/16 | 1:44.20 | ||
1943 | The Rhymer | 5 | Conn McCreary | John M. Gaver Sr. | Greentree Stable | 1-1/16 | 1:45.00 | |
1942 | Waller | 4 | A. G. "Bob" Robertson | John C. Clark | 1-1/16 | 1:44.00 | ||
1941 | Salford II | 5 | Don Meade | not found | Ralph B. Strassburger | 1-1/16 | 1:44.20 | |
1940 | He Did | 7 | Eddie Arcaro | J. Thomas Taylor | 1-1/16 | 1:43.20 | ||
1939 | Lovely Night | 3 | Johnny Longden | Henry McDaniel | Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark | 1 mile | 1:36.40 | |
1938 | War Admiral | 4 | Charles Kurtsinger | George Conway | Glen Riddle Farm | 1 mile | 1:36.80 | |
1937 | 4 | Johnny Longden | James E. Fitzsimmons | Wheatley Stable | 1 mile | 1:37.40 | ||
1936 | Good Gamble | 4 | Sam Renick | Joseph H. Stotler | Alfred G. Vanderbilt II | 1 mile | 1:37.20 | |
1935 | 4 | Calvin Rainey | Charles Shaw | 1 mile | 1:37.20 | |||
1934 | 3 | Robert Jones | Liz Whitney | 1 mile | 1:38.60 | |||
1933 | Kerry Patch | 3 | Joseph A. Notter | Lee Rosenberg | 1 mile | 1:38.00 | ||
1932 | Halcyon | 4 | T. J. Healey | C. V. Whitney | 1 mile | 1:38.00 | ||
1931 | Halcyon | 3 | G. Rose | T. J. Healey | C. V. Whitney | 1 mile | 1:38.40 | |
1930 | Kildare | 4 | Norman Tallman | Newtondale Stable | 1 mile | 1:38.60 | ||
1929 | Comstockery | 3 | Thomas W. Murphy | Greentree Stable | 1 mile | 1:39.60 | ||
1928 | Kentucky II | 4 | Max Hirsch | A. Charles Schwartz | 1 mile | 1:38.80 | ||
1927 | 4 | Michael Joseph Dunleavy | Ira B. Humphreys | 1 mile | 1:36.80 | |||
1926 | Macaw | 3 | Linus McAtee | James G. Rowe Sr. | Harry Payne Whitney | 1 mile | 1:37.00 | |
1925 | Mad Play | 4 | Laverne Fator | Sam Hildreth | Rancocas Stable | 1 mile | 1:36.60 | |
1924 | Mad Hatter | 8 | Earl Sande | Sam Hildreth | Rancocas Stable | 1 mile | 1:36.60 | |
1923 | Zev | 3 | Earl Sande | Sam Hildreth | Rancocas Stable | 1 mile | 1:37.00 | |
1922 | Grey Lag | 4 | Laverne Fator | Sam Hildreth | Rancocas Stable | 1 mile | 1:38.00 | |
1921 | 4 | James G. Rowe Sr. | Harry Payne Whitney | 1 mile | 1:36.00 | |||
1920 | Cirrus | 4 | Lavelle Ensor | Sam Hildreth | Sam Hildreth | 1 mile | 1:38.00 | |
1919 | Star Master | 5 | Merritt C. Buxton | A. Kingsley Macomber | 1 mile | 1:37.60 | ||
1918 | Roamer | 7 | Andrew Miller | 1 mile | 1:36.60 | |||
1917 | Old Rosebud | 6 | Frank Robinson | Frank D. Weir | F. D. Weir & Hamilton C. Applegate | 1 mile | 1:37.60 | |
1916 | 8 | not found | Emil Herz | 1 mile | 1:36.40 | |||
1915 | Roamer | 4 | James Butwell | Andrew Miller | 1 mile | 1:39.20 | ||
1914 | Flying Fairy | 4 | Edward B. Cassatt | 1 mile | 1:42.20 | |||
1913 | No Race | - | No Race | No Race | No Race | 1 mile | no race | |
1912 | No Race | - | No Race | No Race | No Race | 1 mile | no race | |
1911 | No Race | - | No Race | No Race | No Race | 1 mile | no race | |
1910 | Arasee | 5 | Samuel Emery | 1 mile | 1:39.80 | |||
1909 | No Race | - | No Race | No Race | No Race | 1 mile | no race | |
1908 | Jack Atkin | 4 | Barney Schreiber | 1 mile | 1:39.00 | |||
1907 | W. H. Carey | 4 | 1 mile | 1:40.00 | ||||
1906 | Ram's Horn | 4 | L. Perrine | W. S. "Jim" Williams | W. S. "Jim" Williams | 1 mile | 1:39.40 | |
1905 | St. Valentine | 4 | Alexander Shields | 1 mile | 1:39.20 | |||
1904 | Rosetint | 4 | Tommy Burns | John Boden | 1 mile | 1:39.20 | ||
1903 | Yellow Tail | 6 | Henry E. Rowell | John Hackett | 1m, 70 yd | 1:45.20 | ||
1902 | Margravite | 4 | Otto Wonderly | M. Wolfe | Charles Fleischmann Sons | 1m, 70 yd | 1:46.00 |
See also[]
- Queens County Handicap top three finishers and starters
Notes[]
References[]
- The 2009 Queens County Handicap at the NTRA[permanent dead link]
- Horse races in New York City
- Graded stakes races in the United States
- Open middle distance horse races
- Aqueduct Racetrack
- Recurring sporting events established in 1902
- 1902 establishments in New York City