Pan American Handicap

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Grade III race
Pan American Handicap
Location	Gulfstream Park Hallandale Beach, Florida
Inaugurated	1962
Race type	Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website	www.gulfstreampark.com
Race information
Distance	1½ miles (12 furlongs)
Track	Grass, left-handed
Qualification	Four-Year-Olds and Up
Weight	Handicap
Purse	$150,000

The Pan American Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of March at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. Raced on turf over a distance of one and a half miles, the event is open to horses four years of age and older.

A Grade III race since 2006, the Pan American Handicap was rated a GII event from 1990 through 2005 prior to which it had been a Grade I event since 1983.

Inaugurated in 1962 as a race competed over a distance of one and one eighth miles, it was changed to its present one and a half miles in 1965.

Contents 1 Records 2 Winners of the Pan American Handicap since 1988 3 Earlier winners 4 References

[edit] Records

Time record: (at present distance of 1½ miles)

• 2:23.15 - Unite's Big Red (1999)

Most wins:

• 2 - Buck's Boy (1998, 2000)

[edit] Winners of the Pan American Handicap since 1988

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2008	Presious Passion	5	Ariel Smith	Mary Hartmann	Patricia Generazio	2:26.15
2007	Jambalaya	5	Javier Castellano	Catherine Day Phillips	Todd & C. D. Phillips	2:24.98
2006	Silver Whistle	4	Edgar Prado	William I. Mott	Stronach Stables	2:24.35
2005	Navesink River	4	John R. Velazquez	Todd A. Pletcher	Char-Mari Stable	2:25.95
2004	Quest Star	5	Pat Day	W. Elliott Walden	Mansell Stables	2:26.46
2003	Quest Star	4	Edgar Prado	W. Elliott Walden	Mansell Stables	2:28.45
2002	Deeliteful Irving	4	Chris DeCarlo	Todd A. Pletcher	Anstu Stables	2:24.14
2001	What A Brainstorm	4	John R. Velazquez	James E. Picou	John Eaton/Steve Laymon	2:23.75
2000	Buck's Boy	7	Edgar Prado	P. Noel Hickey	Quarter B Farm	2:24.80
1999	Unite's Big Red	5	Mike E. Smith	Randy Mills	Breakaway Racing Stable	2:23.15
1998	Buck's Boy	5	Earlie Fires	P. Noel Hickey	Quarter B Farm	2:23.43
1997	Flag Down	7	Jose Santos	Christophe Clement	Allen E. Paulson	2:27.08
1996	Celtic Arms	5	Mike E. Smith	Ben D. A. Cecil	Gary A. Tanaka	2:25.71
1995	Awad	5	Eddie Maple	David Donk	Ryehill Farm	2:29.44
1994	Fraise	6	Mike E. Smith	William I. Mott	Madeleine A. Paulson	2:24.65
1993	Fraise	5	Pat Valenzuela	William I. Mott	Madeleine A. Paulson	2:32.86
1992	Wall Street Dancer	4	Jorge Velasquez	Niall M. O'Callaghan	John D. Gunther	2:25.53
1991	Phantom Breeze	5	Mike E. Smith	William I. Mott	Bertram R. Firestone	2:29.55
1990	My Big Boy	7	Heberto Castillo, Jr.	C. R. McGaughey III	Heidi Doubleday	nf
1989	Mi Selecto	4	Not found	W. Augusti	Eduardo Azpurua, Sr.	nf
1988	Carotene	5	Don Seymour	Roger Attfield	Kinghaven Farms	2:25.00

[edit] Earlier winners

[edit] References

• Pan American Handicap at the NTRA
• Pan American Handicap at Pedigree Query