Pimlico Spring Handicap
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| horse race = Pimlico Spring Handicap
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| location = Pimlico Race Course
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| inaugurated = 1917 - 1932
| race type = Thoroughbred - Flat racing
| distance = {{frac|1|1|16}} miles (8.5 furlongs)
| surface = Dirt
| track = left-handed
| qualification = Three-year-olds & up
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The Pimlico Spring Handicap was a race for Thoroughbred horses run annually from 1917 through 1932 at Pimlico Race Course racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland. The mile and one-sixteenth race on dirt was open to horses of either sex age three and older.
Historic notes
For most of its duration, the event attracted top-level horses such as inaugural winner Pennant, the 1913 Belmont Futurity winner and sire of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Equipoise.[https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1910s/drf1917050901/drf1917050901_1_10 Daily Racing Form May 9, 1917 article titled "Pennant Wins Once More: Defeats Crimper By A Head In The Pimlico Spring Handicap"] Retrieved August 15, 2018 Others include 1918 winner Cudgel, who beat that year's American Champion Older Male Horse, Omar Khayyam.[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/86665546/ Pittsburgh Daily Post, Page 9, May 9, 1918 article titled "Cudgel Beats Omar Khayyam"] Retrieved August 16, 2018 In 1921 Sandy Beal won the Pimlico Spring Handicap beating 1920 Kentucky Derby winner Paul Jones,[https://www.nytimes.com/1921/05/08/archives/sandy-beal-first-at-pimlico-track-surprises-players-when-he-beats.html New York Times May 8, 1921 article titled "Sandy Beal First At Pimlico Track"] Retrieved August 15, 2018 and 1922 winner Exterminator had already won a Kentucky Derby and by the time he retired from racing had been named a five-time Champion as well as a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.[https://www.americasbestracing.net/the-sport/2016-exterminator-the-legend-old-bones Exterminator: The Legend of 'Old Bones' August 1st, 2016 by J. Keeler Johnson] Retrieved August 16, 2018
The Pimlico Spring Handicap was a victim of the Great Depression in the United States which brought much consolidation of races at every track and a dramatic reduction in purse money.{{Citation needed|date=September 2018}}
Records
Speed record: (at 1 1/16 miles)
- 1:45 0/0 - Edisto (1926)
Most wins by a jockey:
- 2 - Fred Stevens (1924, 1930)
Most wins by a trainer:
- 2 - H. Guy Bedwell (1918, 1920)
Most wins by an owner:
- 2 - Harry Payne Whitney (1917, 1923)
- 2 - J. K. L. Ross (1918, 1920)
Winners
| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:90%" |
| style="width:30px" | Year ! style="width:110px" | Winner ! style="width:20px" | Age ! style="width:110px" | Jockey ! style="width:120px" | Trainer ! Owner ! style="width:45px" | Dist. ! style="width:25px" | Time ! style="width:25px" | Win$ |
|---|
| align=center|1932
|Sun Meadow |align=center|4 |Jimmy Smith |Thomas D. Rodrock |Katherine E. Hitt |align=center|1{{Frac|1|16}} M |align=center|1:51.20 |align=center|$2,910 |
| align=center|1931
|Frisius |align=center|5 |align=center|1{{Frac|1|16}} M |align=center|1:47.60 |align=center|$2,750 |
| align=center|1930
|Grey Coat |align=center|4 |Fred Stevens |J. Woods Garth |Samuel Ross |align=center|1 M, 70 yds |align=center|1:43.80 |align=center|$7,280 |
| align=center|1929
|Sortie |align=center|4 |align=center|1{{Frac|1|16}} M |align=center|1:46.60 |align=center|$7,230 |
| align=center|1928
|Canter |align=center|5 |Steve O'Donnell |J. Edwin Griffith |align=center|1{{Frac|1|16}} M |align=center|1:46.20 |align=center|$7,430 |
| align=center|1927
|Dangerous |align=center|5 |Edgar Barnes |Walter A. Carter |Rosedale Stable |align=center|1{{Frac|1|16}} M |align=center|1:47.20 |align=center|$7,100 |
| align=center|1926
|align=center|4 |Henry Erickson |align=center|1{{Frac|1|16}} M |align=center|1:45.00 |align=center|$6,900 |
| align=center|1925
|General Thatcher |align=center|5 |Nevada Stock Farm |align=center|1{{Frac|1|16}} M |align=center|1:45.20 |align=center|$6,070 |
| align=center|1924
|Spot Cash |align=center|4 |Fred Stevens |align=center|1{{Frac|1|16}} M |align=center|1:48.00 |align=center|$6,150 |
| align=center|1923
|align=center|4 |align=center|1{{Frac|1|16}} M |align=center|1:45.40 |align=center|$6,250 |
| align=center|1922
|align=center|7 |align=center|1{{Frac|1|16}} M |align=center|1:45.80 |align=center|$3,650 |
| align=center|1921
|Sandy Beal |align=center|4 |Steve Wida |Robert B. Jackson |W. S. Murray |align=center|1{{Frac|1|16}} M |align=center|1:52.00 |align=center|$3,650 |
| align=center|1920
|Boniface |align=center|5 |align=center|1{{Frac|1|16}} M |align=center|1:46.80 |align=center|$3,650 |
| align=center|1919
|Royce Rools |align=center|4 |Tommy Nolan |Andrew G. Blakely |Thomas H. Cross |align=center|1{{Frac|1|16}} M |align=center|1:48.40 |align=center|$3,650 |
| align=center|1918
|align=center|4 |H. Guy Bedwell |J. K. L. Ross |align=center|1 M, 70 yds |align=center|1:43.40 |align=center|$4,150 |
| align=center|1917
|align=center|6 |Harry Payne Whitney |align=center|1 M, 70 yds |align=center|1:46.00 |align=center|$2,200 |