Safely Kept Stakes

Grade III race
Safely Kept Stakes
Location Laurel Park Racecourse,
Laurel, Maryland, United States
Inaugurated 1986
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website at Laurelpark.com
Race information
Distance 6 furlong sprint
Track Dirt, left-handed
Qualification Three-year-olds & up fillies and mares
Weight Assigned
Purse $200,000

The Safely Kept Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. Open to fillies aged three, it is competed on dirt over a distance of six furlongs. Run during October, it currently offer a purse of $200,000.

The Safely Kept Breeders' Cup Stakes is one of the top sprints for three-year old fillies in the country. One of the few four six-furlong contests with graded status for three-year olds that leads to the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. It was inaugurated in 1986 as the Columbia Stakes. The stakes record is presently held by Godmother who finished the six furlongs in 1:09.21.[1]

The race is named in honor of Jayeff "B" Stable's and Barry Weisbord's 1989 Eclipse Award Champion Sprinter and 1989 Columbia Stakes winner Safely Kept in 1996. The race has been called several different titles beginning with Columbia Handicap (after a nearby town in Maryland) from 1986-1987, then the Columbia Stakes from 1989-1995.[2]

The race was at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland and has been moved to back and forth from Laurel to Pimlico depending on dates that were assigned by the Maryland Racing Commission. The race has been held at Pimlico in 1986-1987, 1989, 1991-1996. The race was run at Colonial Downs in New Kent, Virginia in 1997. The race was run at Laurel in 1988, 1990, 1998-2000 and from 2006 to present.[3] The race was run at 6-1/2 furlongs in 1987 and 1988.

The Safely Kept Breeders' Cup Stakes was given Graded stakes status in 1990. On August 7, 2008 it was announced that the race would be on hiatus for 2008, the Maryland Jockey Club cited financial distress as the reason for the races' cancellation.

Contents

Records

Speed record:

Most wins by an horse:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Most wins by an owner:

Winners of the Safely Kept Stakes

Year
 Winner
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Distance
 Time
 Purse
 Grade
2011 No Race No Race No Race No Race no race 0:00.00 no race
2010 No Race No Race No Race No Race no race 0:00.00 no race
2009 No Race No Race No Race No Race no race 0:00.00 no race III
2008 No Race No Race No Race No Race no race 0:00.00 no race III
2007 Sindy with an S Jeremy Rose Mike R. Mitchell Dream Stable, LLC 6 fur 1:10.16 $200,000 III
2006 Wild Gams Ryan Fogelsonger Ben Perkins, Jr. Everett B. Novak 6 fur 1:09.93 $200,000 III
2005 Trikle of Gold Jeremy Rose Michael Gorham John Murphy 6 fur 1:10.45 $150,000 III
2004 Bending Strings Hector Karamanos Kiaran McLaughlin John Gunther 6 fur 1:10.11 $150,000 III
2003 Randaroo Heberto Castillo, Jr. Kiaran McLaughlin H. Joseph Allen 6 fur 1:10.54 $150,000 III
2002 Miss Lodi Ryan Fogelsonger Thomas M. Amoss Richard Colton & Henry Mast 6 fur 1:11.20 $150,000 III
2001 Kimbralata Travis Dunkelberger Dale Capuano Donald Mensh 6 fur 1:11.20 $100,000 III
2000 Swept Away Jeremy Beasley Bernard Flint Richard, Bertram, & Elaine Klein 6 fur 1:09.51 $100,000 III
1999 Godmother Mario Pino Robert W. Camac Arthur I. Appleton 6 fur 1:09.21 $100,000 III
1998 Hair Spray Jose A. Velez, Jr. Charlie Whittingham Robert E. Meyerhoff 6 fur 1:10.67 $110,000 III
1997 Weather Vane Mario Pino Richard Delp Par Four Racing Stable 6 fur 1:10.21 $110,000 III
1996 J J's Dream Mario Pino Eddie Plesa, Jr. John A. Franks 6 fur 1:09.45 $100,000 III
1995 Broad Smile Jerilyn Brown Richard W. Small Robert E. Meyerhoff 6 fur 1:10.30 $100,000 III
1994 Twist Afleet Dennis Carr John C. Kimmel Lucille Conover 6 fur 1:10.88 $100,000 III
1993 Miss Indy Anna B. Douglas Thomas Ned Allard Charles T. Matses 6 fur 1:09.12 $100,000 III
1992 Meafara Brian Swatuk Leslie Ahrens Frank Muench 6 fur 1:10.55 $100,000 III
1991 Missy's Mirage Herb McCauley H. Allen Jerkens Middletown Stable 6 fur 1:10.53 $100,000 III
1990 Voodoo Lily Kent Desormeaux D. Wayne Lukas H. Joseph Allen 6 fur 1:10.60 $100,000 III
1989 Safely Kept Craig Perret Alan E. Goldberg Jayeff B Stable/Barry Weisbord 6 fur 1:11.20 $100,000 III
1988 Clever Power Julie Krone Richard E. Dutrow, Sr. Marvin Moncrief 6.5 fur 1:16.40 $110,000
1987 Endless Surprise Kent Desormeaux Hyman Ravich Peter Angelos 6.5 fur 1:17.40 $47,250
1986 Debtor's Prison David Byrnes Not Found Not Found 6 fur 1:11.40 $47,000

See also

References

  1. ^ 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 37 on March 3, 2007.
  2. ^ 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 37 on March 3, 2007.
  3. ^ 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 37 on March 3, 2007.