Firecracker Handicap

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The Firecracker Handicap is an AmericanThoroughbred horse race run annually on the turf course at Churchill Downs. The Grade II event is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race one mile and currently offers a purse of $232,000.

[edit] Winners of the Firecracker Breeders' Cup Handicap since 2000

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
2007 Remarkable News 5 Ramon Dominguez Angel Penna, Jr. Holly Rincon 1:34.74
2006 Miesque's Approval 7 Eddie Castro Marty Wolfson Charlotte Weber 1:34.52
2005 Kitten's Joy 4 Edgar Prado Dale L. Romans Ken & Sarah Ramsey 1:35.25
2004 Quantum Merit 5 Shane Sellers Del Carroll, Jr. Very Un Stable 1:34.15
2003 Tap The Admiral 5 John McKee Del Carroll, Jr. Stanley Ettinger 1:35.48
2002 Good Journey 6 Pat Day Wallace Dollase Flaxman Holdings 1:34.83
2001 Irish Prize 5 Gary Stevens Neil Drysdale Sheikh Mohammed 1:34.68
2000 Conserve 4 Shane Sellers Frank L. Brothers Claiborne Farm 1:35.12

[edit] Earlier winners

  • 1999 - Joe Who
  • 1998 - Claires Honor
  • 1997 - Soviet Line
  • 1996 - Rare Reason
  • 1995 - Jaggery John
  • 1994 - First And Only
  • 1993 - Cleone