Longfellow Stakes

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The Longfellow Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run each year in June at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey. A six furlong sprint for either gender aged three and up, the ungraded Longfellow offers a purse of $65,000 and a trophy.

The race, inaugurated in 1952, began as an eight furlong event. From 1963 to 1967 it went off at eight and a half furlongs. In 1968 it stretched out to nine furlongs and remained at that distance until 1996. In 1997, it became a six furlong race.

The Longfellow is named for the Hall of Famer Longfellow, one of America's greatest racehorses as well as one of the greatest stallions of the 19th Century.

[edit] Past winners

  • 2007 - Wildeyed Dreamer (Chuck Lopez)
  • 2006 - Joey P.
  • 2005 - Don Six (Aaron Gryder)
  • 2004 - Canadian Frontier (Edgar Prado)
  • 2003 - It's a Monster
  • 2002 - Impeachthepro
  • 2001 - Max's Pal
  • 2000 - Delaware Township (Say Florida Sandy placed.)
  • 1999 - My Jeffs Mombo
  • 1998 - Buffalo Dan (Say Florida Sandy placed.)
  • 1997 - Basqueian
  • 1996 - Ops Smile
  • 1995 - Boyce
  • 1994 - Winnetou
  • 1993 - First And Only
  • 1992 - Futurist
  • 1991 - Thunder Regent
  • 1990 - Great Normand
  • 1989 - Double Booked (raced for eight years)
  • 1988 - Triteamtri
  • 1987 - Owens Troupe
  • 1986 - I'm A Banker
  • 1985 - Cozzene (1985 Eclipse Champion Turf Horse, leading stallion, sire of Star Over The Bay, Alphabet Soup, etc.)
  • 1984 - Tough Mickey
  • 1983 - John's Gold
  • 1982 - Gilded Age
  • 1981 - Data Swap
  • 1980 - Foretake
  • 1979 - Dan Horn
  • 1978 - Dan Horn
  • 1977 - Quick Card
  • 1976 - Landscaper
  • 1975 - Bucks Bid (In 1972, drew the furthest outside post in Kentucky Derby history: no. 23, yet still came in 7th.)
  • 1974 - Northern Fling
  • 1973 - Dartsum
  • 1972 - Good Counsel
  • 1971 - Matto Grosso2
  • 1970 - Ribofilio
  • 1969 - Jean-Pierre
  • 1968 - More Scents
  • 1967 - War Censor
  • 1966 - In Zeal
  • 1965 - Turbo Jet II
  • 1964 - Parka (ex-claimer, raced for five years, became United States Champion Grass Horse of 1965.)
  • 1963 - Parka
  • 1962 - Royal Record
  • 1961 - Call The Witness
  • 1960 - Julmar
  • 1959 - Lil Fella
  • 1958 - Tudor Era
  • 1957 - Combustion2
  • 1956 - Prince Morvi
  • 1955 - County Clare
  • 1954 - News Again
  • 1953 - Thasian Hero
  • 1952 - Crocodile

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