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