Pimlico Spring Handicap

Horses run

Horse race

Pimlico Spring HandicapDiscontinued race

Location| Pimlico Race Course
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Inaugurated| 1917 - 1932
Race type| Thoroughbred \- Flat racing
Race information
Distance| 1+1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
Surface| Dirt
Track| left-handed
Qualification| Three-year-olds & up

The Pimlico Spring Handicap was a race for Thoroughbred horses run annually from 1917 through 1932 at Pimlico Race Course racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland. The mile and one-sixteenth race on dirt was open to horses of either sex age three and older.

## Historic notes

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For most of its duration, the event attracted top-level horses such as inaugural winner Pennant, the 1913 Belmont Futurity winner and sire of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Equipoise.[1] Others include 1918 winner Cudgel, who beat that year's American Champion Older Male Horse, Omar Khayyam.[2] In 1921 Sandy Beal won the Pimlico Spring Handicap beating 1920 Kentucky Derby winner Paul Jones,[3] and 1922 winner Exterminator had already won a Kentucky Derby and by the time he retired from racing had been named a five-time Champion as well as a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.[4]

The Pimlico Spring Handicap was a victim of the Great Depression in the United States which brought much consolidation of races at every track and a dramatic reduction in purse money.[citation needed]

## Records

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Speed record: (at 1 1/16 miles)

* 1:45 0/0 - Edisto (1926)

Most wins by a jockey:

* 2 - Fred Stevens (1924, 1930)

Most wins by a trainer:

* 2 - H. Guy Bedwell (1918, 1920)

Most wins by an owner:

* 2 - Harry Payne Whitney (1917, 1923)
* 2 - J. K. L. Ross (1918, 1920)

## Winners

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Year
| Winner
| Age
| Jockey
| Trainer
| Owner
| Dist.
(Miles) | Time
| Win$

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1932  | Sun Meadow  | 4  | Jimmy Smith  | Thomas D. Rodrock  | Katherine E. Hitt  | 11⁄16 M | 1:51.20  | $2,910
1931  | Frisius  | 5  | Anthony Pascuma | George Tappen | Belair Stud | 11⁄16 M | 1:47.60  | $2,750
1930  | Grey Coat  | 4  | Fred Stevens  | J. Woods Garth  | Samuel Ross  | 1 M, 70 yds | 1:43.80  | $7,280
1929  | Sortie  | 4  | Pete Walls | Max Hirsch | A. Charles Schwartz | 11⁄16 M | 1:46.60  | $7,230
1928  | Canter  | 5  | Steve O'Donnell  | Harry Rites | J. Edwin Griffith  | 11⁄16 M | 1:46.20  | $7,430
1927  | Dangerous  | 5  | Edgar Barnes  | Walter A. Carter  | Rosedale Stable  | 11⁄16 M | 1:47.20  | $7,100
1926  | Edisto | 4  | Henry Erickson  | William H. Bringloe | Seagram Stables | 11⁄16 M | 1:45.00  | $6,900
1925  | General Thatcher  | 5  | Louis Schaefer | Preston M. Burch | Nevada Stock Farm  | 11⁄16 M | 1:45.20  | $6,070
1924  | Spot Cash  | 4  | Fred Stevens  | James W. Healy | Albert C. Bostwick | 11⁄16 M | 1:48.00  | $6,150
1923  | Bunting | 4  | Linus McAtee | James G. Rowe Sr. | Harry Payne Whitney | 11⁄16 M | 1:45.40  | $6,250
1922  | Exterminator | 7  | Albert Johnson | Eugene Wayland | Willis Sharpe Kilmer | 11⁄16 M | 1:45.80  | $3,650
1921  | Sandy Beal  | 4  | Steve Wida  | Robert B. Jackson  | W. S. Murray  | 11⁄16 M | 1:52.00  | $3,650
1920  | Boniface  | 5  | Earl Sande | H. Guy Bedwell | J. K. L. Ross | 11⁄16 M | 1:46.80  | $3,650
1919  | Royce Rools  | 4  | Tommy Nolan  | Andrew G. Blakely  | Thomas H. Cross  | 11⁄16 M | 1:48.40  | $3,650
1918  | Cudgel | 4  | Lawrence Lyke | H. Guy Bedwell  | J. K. L. Ross  | 1 M, 70 yds | 1:43.40  | $4,150
1917  | Pennant | 6  | Frank Robinson | Albert Simons | Harry Payne Whitney  | 1 M, 70 yds | 1:46.00  | $2,200

## References

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1. ^ Daily Racing Form May 9, 1917 article titled "Pennant Wins Once More: Defeats Crimper By A Head In The Pimlico Spring Handicap" Retrieved August 15, 2018
2. ^ Pittsburgh Daily Post, Page 9, May 9, 1918 article titled "Cudgel Beats Omar Khayyam" Retrieved August 16, 2018
3. ^ New York Times May 8, 1921 article titled "Sandy Beal First At Pimlico Track" Retrieved August 15, 2018
4. ^ Exterminator: The Legend of 'Old Bones' August 1st, 2016 by J. Keeler Johnson Retrieved August 16, 2018