Arkansas Derby
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Grade II race | |
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Arkansas Derby | |
Location | Oaklawn Park Race Track Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA |
Inaugurated | 1936 |
Race type | Thoroughbred |
Website | Oaklawn Jockey Club, Inc. |
Race information | |
Distance | 1⅛ miles (9 furlongs) |
Track | Dirt, Right-handed |
Qualification | Three-year-olds |
Weight | Colt/Gelding: 126 lbs (57.2 kg) Filly: 121 lbs. (54.9 kg) |
Purse | US$1,000,000 |
The Arkansas Derby is an American Thoroughbred horse race held in April at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The Arkansas Derby is open to three-year-olds willing to race one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs) on the dirt. A Grade II stakes race, it offers a purse of $1,000,000.
The inaugural Arkansas Derby in 1936 offered a total purse of $5,000. The first winner was Holl Image, owned and trained by Jack Carter.
Past winners have gone on to win American Classic Races such as 1980 winner Temperence Hill and 1998's Victory Gallop who both went on to capture the Belmont Stakes, plus Sunny's Halo won the 1983 Kentucky Derby as did Smarty Jones in 2004, and Elocutionist (1976), Tank's Prospect (1985), and Pine Bluff (1992) all won the Preakness Stakes. The 1994 winner, Concern, won that year's Breeders' Cup Classic.
In 2004, Oaklawn Park offered a $5 million bonus to any horse that could sweep the Oaklawn three-year-old graded stakes schedule: Rebel Stakes and the Arkansas Derby, and then take the Kentucky Derby. This helped increased particiaption from the top three-year-olds in the country to the point where the winners of four of the last nine Triple Crown races won the Arkansas Derby. Smarty Jones captured this feat the same year it was introduced.
The race was run in two divisions in 1960.
[edit] Records
Speed record:
- 1:46.80 - Althea (1984)
Most wins by a jockey:
- 3 - Pat Day (1986, 1987, 1997)
Most wins by a trainer:
- Eleven trainers have won this race twice.
Most wins by an owner:
- 3 - Loblolly Stable (1980, 1987, 1992)
[edit] Winners of the Arkansas Derby
Year | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Time |
2008 | Gayego | Mike E. Smith | Paulo Lobo | Cubanacan Stables | 1:49.63 |
2007 | Curlin | Robby Albarado | Steve Asmussen | Midnight Cry Stables et al | 1:50.00 |
2006 | Lawyer Ron | John McKee | Robert E. Holthus | James T. Hines, Jr. | 1:51.38 |
2005 | Afleet Alex | Jeremy Rose | Tim Ritchey | Cash Is King Stable | 1:48.80 |
2004 | Smarty Jones | Stewart Elliott | John Servis | Roy & Patricia Chapman | 1:49.41 |
2003 | Sir Cherokee | Terry J. Thompson | Michael Tomlinson | Domino Stud | 1:48.39 |
2002 | Private Emblem | Donnie J. Meche | Steve Asmussen | James Cassels/Bob Zollars | 1:50.20 |
2001 | Balto Star | Mark Guidry | Todd Pletcher | Anstu Stables | 1:49.00 |
2000 | Graeme Hall | Robby Albarado | Todd Pletcher | Eugene & Laura Melnyk | 1:49.00 |
1999 | Certain + | Kent Desormeaux | Leo Azpurua, Jr. | B.& J.Williams | 1:49.20 |
1998 | Victory Gallop | Alex Solis | W. Elliott Walden | Prestonwood Farm | 1:49.80 |
1997 | Crypto Star | Pat Day | Wayne Catalano | Darrell & Evelyn Yates | 1:49.20 |
1996 | Zarb's Magic | Ronald Ardoin | Bert Thomas | Foxwood Plantation | 1:49.20 |
1995 | Dazzling Falls | Garrett Gomez | Chuck Turco | Chateau Ridge Farm | 1:50.60 |
1994 | Concern | Garrett Gomez | Richard W. Small | Robert E. Meyerhoff | 1:48.00 |
1993 | Rockamundo | Calvin Borel | O. J. Glass, Jr. | Gary & Mary West | 1:48.00 |
1992 | Pine Bluff | Jerry D. Bailey | Thomas Bohannan | Loblolly Stable | 1:49.40 |
1991 | Olympio | Ed Delahoussaye | Ron McAnally | V.H.W. Stables | 1:47.60 |
1990 | Silver Ending | Gary L. Stevens | Ron McAnally | R. McAnally & A. Costanzo | 1:48.00 |
1989 | Dansil | Larry Snyder | Frank L. Brothers | John A. Franks | 1:49.20 |
1988 | Proper Reality | Jerry D. Bailey | Robert E. Holthus | Mrs. James A. Winn | 1:48.40 |
1987 | Demons Begone | Pat Day | Philip Hauswald | Loblolly Stable | 1:47.60 |
1986 | Rampage | Pat Day | Gary A. Thomas | Nancy & John Reed | 1:48.20 |
1985 | Tank's Prospect | Gary L. Stevens | D. Wayne Lukas | Eugene V. Klein | 1:48.40 |
1984 | Althea | Pat Valenzuela | D. Wayne Lukas | Helen C. Alexander et al | 1:46.80 |
1983 | Sunny's Halo | Ed Delahoussaye | David C. Cross, Jr. | David J. Foster | 1:49.40 |
1982 | Hostage | Jeffrey Fell | Willard C. Freeman | Mrs. P. Hexter | 1:51.60 |
1981 | Bold Ego | John L. Lively | D. Werre | Double B. Ranch/J. Kidd | 1:50.40 |
1980 | Temperence Hill | Darrell Haire | Joseph B. Cantey | Loblolly Stable | 1:50.60 |
1979 | Golden Act | Sandy Hawley | Loren Rettele | Oldknow & Phipps | 1:50.00 |
1978 | Esops Foibles | Chris McCarron | Loren Rettele | Jerry Frankel | 1:52.20 |
1977 | Clever Tell | Ray Broussard | Homer Pardue | J. R. Straus/I. Proler | 1:50.60 |
1976 | Elocutionist | John L. Lively | Paul T. Adwell | Eugene C. Cashman | 1:49.20 |
1975 | Promised City | David E. Whited | Larry Spraker | Big I. Farm | 1:51.80 |
1974 | J.R.'s Pet | Darrel McHargue | Harold Tinker | W. Cal Partee | 1:50.60 |
1973 | Impecunious | Jorge Velasquez | George R. Handy | Mrs. R. L. Feinberg | 1:49.60 |
1972 | No Le Hace | Phil Rubbicco | Homer Pardue | Joseph W. Strauss | 1:48.80 |
1971 | Twist The Axe | Garth Patterson | George T. Poole | Pastorale Stable | 1:49.20 |
1970 | Herbalist | Jimmy Nichols | Roy J. Glllem | Greentree Stable | 1:50.20 |
1969 | Traffic Mark | Phil I. Grimm | Ronnie Warren | M/M R. F. Roberts | 1:50.60 |
1968 | Nodouble | William McKeever | J. Bert Sonnier | Verna Lea Farm | 1:50.00 |
1967 | Monitor | Jimmy Nichols | Harry Trotsek | Claiborne Farm | 1:48.60 |
1966 | Better Sea | Johnny Sellers | B. Heap | Scottdale Farm | 1:49.20 |
1965 | Swift Ruler | Larry Spraker | Gin L. Collins | Earl Allen | 1:52.20 |
1964 | Prince Davelle | Charlie Burr | Doug M. Davis, Jr. | George M. Holtsinger | 1:51.40 |
1963 | Cosmic Tip | Robert Mundorf | E. Mahoney | River Divide Farm | 1:50.40 |
1962 | Areopolis | Robert L. Baird | Harold Tinker | A. Muckler | 1:49.60 |
1961 | Light Talk | Robert Nono | Steve Ippolito | Jacnot Stable | 1:50.20 |
1960 | Spring Broker | E. Curry | Marion Van Berg | Marion Van Berg | 1:54.40 |
1960 | Persian Gold | John Combest | Monte D. Parke | Janes-Tuckahoe Farm | 1:53.00 |
1959 | Al Davelle | Ronnie Baldwin | D. Howell | Smith/Moulder/Oldham | 1:48.80 |
1958 | Count Deblanc | Johnny Sellers | C. C. Norman | C. & J. Riedinger | 1:53.80 |
1957 | Kentucky Roman | John Delahoussaye | N. A. McMaster | R. Lowe | 1:49.60 |
1956 | Johns Chic | John L. Rotz | L. Fischer | Mrs. E. Muckler | 1:51.20 |
1955 | Trim Destiny | L. C. Cook | C. Locklear | G. White | 1:49.60 |
1954 | Timely Tip | Howard Craig | Reid Armstrong | A. L. Birch | 1:49.80 |
1953 | Curragh King | John Adams | J. Wallace | E. Goemans | 1:49.60 |
1952 | Gushing Oil | Alfred Popara | Joe Jansen | Sam E. Wilson, Jr | 1:49.20 |
1951 | Ruhe | Job Dean Jessop | Robert McGarvey | Emil Denemark | 1:51.00 |
1950 | Big Ike | Harold Keene | C. Locklear | C. Buckley | 1:52.00 |
1949 | Cacomo | Billie Fisk | A. Williams | Endovina & Kontos | 1:54.60 |
1948 | Fertile Lands | Paul Glidewell | M. Barton | Grissom & Sherman | 1:51.00 |
1947 | Fleetridge | Arthur Craig | Roy J. Gillem | Mrs. K. Maxwell | 1:51.40 |
1946 | Bob Murphy | Wendell Eads | C. Sanborn | D. Ferguson | 1:51.80 |
1944 | Challenge Me | Anthony Skoronski | Dan Cataldo | Brolite Farm | 1:50.20 |
1943 | Seven Hearts | John Adams | W. G. Sparks | Brown Hotel Stable | 1:52.20 |
1942 | With Regards | Johnny Longden | T. D. Grimes | T. D. Grimes | 1:50.00 |
1941 | He Rolls | P. Mills | V. Noyes | V. Noyes | 1:52.60 |
1940 | Super Chief | J. Richard | Dave Womeldorff | Mrs. Emil Denemark | 1:52.20 |
1939 | Ariel Toy | Lee Hardy | H. W. Jackson | H. W. Jackson | 1:52.40 |
1938 | Tiger | Alfred Robertson | Robert McGarvey | Milky Way Farm | 1:50.80 |
1937 | Eastport | R. Hightshoe | E. Russell | Mrs. V. Wyse | 1:50.80 |
1936 | Holl Image | H. Fisher | Jack Carter | Jack Carter | 1:53.40 |
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