Vernon O. Underwood Stakes
Grade III race | |
Location | Hollywood Park Racetrack Inglewood, California, United States |
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Inaugurated | 1981 |
Race type | Thoroughbred – flat racing |
Website | www |
Race information | |
Distance | Six and a half-furlong sprint |
Surface | Cushion Track synthetic dirt |
Track | left-handed |
Qualification | Three-years-old and up |
Weight | Assigned |
Purse | $100,000 |
The Vernon O. Underwood Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. Raced in late November, the Grade III event is open to horses age three and older. It is contested on Cushion Track synthetic dirt at a distance of six furlongs.
Inaugurated as the National Sprint Championship Stakes, in 1990 the name was changed to honor (1907–1990), a California businessman.[1] After Hollywood Park closed, the race is run as the Midnight Lute Stakes at Santa Anita Park.
In 2001, H. Eugene Reed's eight-year-old gelding Men's Exclusive became the first back-to-back winner of the race and its oldest winner.
The race was run in two divisions in 1981, 1982, 1984,1986,and in 2016
Records[]
Speed record:
- 1:07.79 - (2006) (new track record on Cushion Track)
Most wins:
- 2 - Men's Exclusive (2000, 2001)
Most wins by a trainer:
- 3 - John W. Sadler (1989, 1990, 2010)
Winners since 1989[]
Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Time |
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2017 | Silent Bird | 5 | Kent Desormeax | Mark Glatt | Norman Stables, LLC | 1:09.39 |
2016 | Solid Wager,ST Joe Bay (Dead Heat) | 5,4 | Kent Desormeax, Victor Esponoza | Peter Miller | Barber, Gary and Cecil and Stanford Stable,Al Tamira Racing Stable and David A. Bernsen | 1:15.03 |
2016 | San Onofre | 6 | Alex Solis | Karen Headley | Matson Racing | 1:14.82 |
2014 | Distinctiv Passion | 4 | Mike E Smith | Peter Redekop B. C., Ltd. | 1:14.55 | |
2013 | 4 | Brown/Klein/Lebherz | 1:08.87 | |||
2012 | 5 | Rafael Bejarano | Alan Klein/Philip Lebherz | 1:11.24 | ||
2011 | Pacific Ocean | 4 | Joel Rosario | JMJ Racing Stable | 1:08.48 | |
2010 | Cost of Freedom | 7 | Joe Talamo | John W. Sadler | Gary & Cecil Barber | 1:08.46 |
2009 | Kinsale King | 4 | Martin Garcia | Carl O'Callaghan | Patrick Sheehy | 1:09.67 |
2008 | Johnny Eves | 4 | Garrett Gomez | Jay M. Robbins | Sharon Hilliard | 1:07.90 |
2007 | Bushwacker | 5 | Joseph Talamo | & Alvin Eisman | 1:08.47 | |
2006 | 3 | Jon Court | Everest stables | 1:07.79 | ||
2005 | Bordonaro | 4 | Pat Valenzuela | F. Carrillo & D. Casse | 1:08.11 | |
2004 | Taste of Paradise | 5 | Jose Valdivia, Jr. | David Bloom | 1:08.04 | |
2003 | Watchem Smokey | 3 | Julie Krone | Robert J. Frankel | Edmund A. Gann | 1:08.93 |
2002 | Debonair Joe | 3 | Julie Krone | Lynne H. Ristad | 1:09:17 | |
2001 | Men's Exclusive | 8 | Laffit Pincay, Jr. | Wesley A. Ward | H. Eugene Reed | 1:09.04 |
2000 | Men's Exclusive | 7 | Laffit Pincay, Jr. | Wesley A. Ward | H. Eugene Reed | 1:09.02 |
1999 | Five Star Day | 3 | Alex Solis | Columbine Stable | 1:09.91 | |
1998 | Love That Jazz | 4 | Kent Desormeaux | Neil Drysdale | Irving & Marge Cowan | 1:08.79 |
1997 | Tower Full | 5 | Corey Nakatani | Moon S. Han | 1:08.17 | |
1996 | Paying Dues | 4 | Pat Day | Ballantyne, Owen & Welty | 1:08.24 | |
1995 | Powis Castle | 4 | Gary Stevens | Rodney Rash | Vistas Stables | 1:08.40 |
1994 | 3 | Kent Desormeaux | Dizney & English | 1:08.37 | ||
1993 | Meafara | 4 | Gary Stevens | Gary F. Jones | Frank Muench | 1:10.01 |
1992 | Gundaghia | 5 | Gary Stevens | Bob Baffert | Goodman & Kieckhefer | 1:09.33 |
1991 | Individualist | 4 | Kent Desormeaux | David Hofmans | Golden Eagle Farm | 1:08.86 |
1990 | Frost Free | 5 | Chris McCarron | John W. Sadler | Triple Dot Dash Stable & Vandervoort | 1:08.20 |
1989 | Olympic Prospect | 5 | Alex Solis | John W. Sadler | Alsdorf, Opas & Sinatra | 1:08.80 |
Earlier winners[]
- 1988 - Gallant Sailor
- 1987 - Hilco Scamper
- 1986 - Bedside Promise
- 1986 - Nasib
- 1985 - Pancho Villa
- 1984 - Fifty Six Ina Row
- 1984 - Lovlier Linda
- 1983 - Fighting Fit
- 1982 - Mad Key
- 1982 - Unpredictable
- 1981 - Shanekite
- 1981 - Smokite
References[]
- ^ "About Young's". YoungsMarket.com. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
- Graded stakes races in the United States
- Open sprint category horse races
- Horse races in California
- Hollywood Park Racetrack
- Recurring sporting events established in 1981
- 1981 establishments in California