Spring Juvenile Stakes

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| horse race = Spring Juvenile Stakes

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| location = Pimlico Race Course
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

| inaugurated = 1917

| race type = Thoroughbred – Flat racing

| distance = 4.5 furlongs

| surface = Dirt

| track = left-handed

| qualification = Two-year-olds

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The Spring Juvenile Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the first part of May from 1917 through 1930 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. A race for two-year-olds of either sex, it was run on dirt over a distance of four and one-half furlongs. At the time the Spring Juvenile Stakes was created Pimlico already had the Nursery Stakes which was run under the exact same terms and distance. Careful in 1920 and Lord Baltimore in 1921 marked the only two times the Spring Juvenile winner also won the Pimlico Nursery Stakes.{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1920s/drf1924040801/drf1924040801_1_4 |title=Pimlicos "Baby" Stakes: Juvenile and Pimlico Nursery Two-Year-Old Events for Spring Meeting |publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1924-04-08 |accessdate=2020-01-26}}

Historical notes

The inaugural running of the Spring Juvenile Stakes took place on May 12, 1917, and was won by Edward McBride's colt Charlie Leydecker who defeated Quietude, the betting favorite owned by Alfred H. Morris.{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1910s/drf1917051301/drf1917051301_2_5 |title=Pimlico Form Chart |publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1917-05-13 |accessdate=2020-01-25}}

In 1920 Walter J. Salmon Sr.'s Careful won the race under Hall of Fame jockey James Butwell.{{cite web|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92051227/1920-05-13/ed-1/seq-8/ |title=Careful Takes Pimlico Event |publisher=The Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer, page 8 (Library of Congress) |date=1920-05-13 |accessdate=2020-01-25}} Careful would be named that year's American Co-Champion Two-Year-Old Filly, sharing the honor with Harry Payne Whitney's Prudery. Careful went on to earn a second national title as the American Champion Older Female Horse of 1922.[http://www.bloodhorse.com/eclipsewinners/pdf/History_Charts.pdf The Bloodhorse.com Champion's history charts] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904120526/http://www.bloodhorse.com/eclipsewinners/pdf/History_Charts.pdf |date=September 4, 2012}} Lord Baltimore set a new track record time in winning the 1921 race. In so doing, the Daily Racing Form noted he had beaten the best two-year-olds at Pimlico.{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1920s/drf1921051101/drf1921051101_1_5 |title=Lord Baltimore Winner: Defeats Best Two-Year-Olds at Pimlico in Spring Juvenile Stakes |publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1921-05-11 |accessdate=2020-01-26}} Careful and Lord Baltimore were the only winners of the Spring Juvenile who also won the Pimlico Nursery Stakes.{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1920s/drf1924040801/drf1924040801_1_4 |title=Pimlicos "Baby" Stakes: Juvenile and Pimlico Nursery Two-Year-Old Events for Spring Meeting |publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1924-04-08 |accessdate=2020-01-26}}

Demise

The Wall Street crash of 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression which would soon force racetrack owners to cut purse money for all races and to cancel others. Pimlico already had the Nursery Stakes open to all, and the Home-Bred Stakes for Maryland-bred two-year-olds, both of which were at the same distance as the Spring Juvenile Stakes. Because the Nursery Stakes had the higher profile as a stakes first run in 1909, and the importance of promoting breeding in the state of Maryland, it would be the Spring Juvenile Stakes that would be dropped from the schedule.[https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1900s/drf1909051101/drf1909051101_1_10 Daily Racing Form "Tom Melton's Stake Race: Wins The Nursery Stakes At Pimlico"] Retrieved July 24, 2018[https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1940s/drf1947050901/drf1947050901_3_2 Daily Racing Form "Equibit Finishes Fast on Outside To Annex Pimlico Nursery Stakes"] Retrieved July 24, 2018{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1920s/drf1926050801/drf1926050801_20_1 |title=Triton a Repeater: Duplicates Recent Victory in Pimlico Home-Bred Stakes |publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1926-05-08 |accessdate=2020-01-28}}

Records

Speed record:

53 3/5 – Up (1930)

Most wins by a jockey:

2 – Edgar Barnes (1924, 1925)

Most wins by a trainer:

No trainer won this race more than once.

Most wins by an owner:

2 – Walter J. Salmon Sr. (1920, 1928)

Winners

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align=center\|1930 \|Up \|align=center\|2 \|Frank Coltiletti \|Preston M. Burch \|James Nugent Crofton \|0:53.60 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$5,610
align=center\|1929 \|Mint Olga \|align=center\|2 \|George Fields \|Andrew G. Blakely \|Willis Sharpe Kilmer \|0:55.00 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$6,280
align=center\|1928 \|Dunkirk \|align=center\|2 \|Louis Schaefer \|Thomas J. Healey \|Walter J. Salmon Sr. \|0:56.20 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$6,220
align=center\|1927 \|All Callao \|align=center\|2 \|Ovila Bourassa \|Clyde Phillips \|Greentree Stable \|0:54.60 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$5,740
align=center\|1926 \|The Heathen \|align=center\|2 \|John Callahan \|William R. Midgley Sr. \|C. Harvey Pierce \|0:54.00 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$4,840
align=center\|1925 \|Silver Finn \|align=center\|2 \|Edgar Barnes \|William Durnan \|Flamingo Stable \|0:54.40 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$4,820
align=center\|1924 \|Extreme \|align=center\|2 \|Edgar Barnes \|Matthew Smart \|Samuel Ross \|0:55.80 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$3,750
align=center\|1923 \|June Flower \|align=center\|2 \|Andy Schuttinger \|Roy Waldron \|Xalapa Farm Stable \|0:54.20 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$4,050
align=center\|1922 \|St. Valentine \|align=center\|2 \|Frank Keogh \|Harry Rites \|J. Edwin Griffith \|0:54.00 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$2,050
align=center\|1921 \|Lord Baltimore \|align=center\|2 \|Ted Rice \|William M. Garth \|Joshua S. Cosden \|0:53.60 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$2,150
align=center\|1920 \|Careful \|align=center\|2 \|Willie Kelsay \|Eugene Wayland \|Walter J. Salmon Sr. \|0:54.40 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$2,150
align=center\|1919 \|Kallipolis \|align=center\|2 \|George Corey \|Nathaniel K. Beal \|John H. Shreeve \|0:55.00 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$2,200
align=center\|1918 \|Madam Byng \|align=center\|2 \|Lawrence Lyke \|Arthur Brent \|W. A. Gamble \|0:54.80 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$3,250
align=center\|1917 \|Charlie Leydecker \|align=center\|2 \|John Metcalf \|William Livingston \|Edward McBride \|0:59.60 \|align=center\|4.5 F \|$1,680

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align=center|1930

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