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Squan Song Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1988

Distance
  
7 furlongs

Purse
  
75,000 USD

Website
  
www.laurelpark.com

Surface
  
Dirt

Location
  
Laurel Park Racecourse, Laurel, Maryland, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred – Flat racing

The Squan Song Stakes is a race for Thoroughbred horses held in early November at Laurel Park in Maryland. The ungraded stakes race is open to three-year-olds, is run at one mile on the dirt, and offers a purse of $75,000.

This race is named for Squan Song (born 1981), who was a four-time Maryland Bred champion, from 1984 to 1987 and earned "Horse-of-the-Year" honors in 1985. A winner of 18 of her 36 career starts, with 12 placements (ten in stakes races), the mare earned $898,444, placing her fourth on the all-time list of top Maryland-bred money winners at the time of her retirement. She was sold by her breeder Linda Green, for $125,000 as a weanling at Keeneland.

Squan Song campaigned under the colors of owners Bob Brennan's Due ProcessStable, winning a total of 14 stakes races, including the Grade 2 Cotillion Handicap at Philadelphia Park, the Rare Treat Stakes and the Affectionately Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack. She set track records for a mile and one sixteenth in the Meadowlands Racetrack's Honey Bee Handicap and in Garden State Park Racetrack's Haddonfield Handicap.

Records

Speed record:

  • 7 furlong - 1:23.00 - Gazillion (2002)
  • 1 18 miles - 1:50.00 - Wait for the Lady (1990)
  • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Albert Delgado (1988, 1991, 1992 & 2009)
  • 3 - Jeremy Rose (2002, 2003 & 2006)
  • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - Richard W. Small (2004, 2005 & 2007)
  • References

    Squan Song Stakes Wikipedia


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