In October 2009, she won her fifth Grade I race, capturing the Beldame Stakes.
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Imperial Gesture (foaled February 27, 1999) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2002 Beldame Stakes.
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In a poll among members of the American Trainers Association conducted in 1955 by Delaware Park Racetrack, Beldame was voted the seventh greatest filly in American racing history. Gallorette was voted first. Beldame, who died in 1924, was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1956.
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Exogenous (April 12, 1998 - November 2, 2001) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and the winner of the 2001 Beldame Stakes.
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In the Ladies Stakes, Beldame got loose under her substitute rider before the race and galloped all over the track looking for an opening to run back to the barn. She found it before her jockey, Gene Hildebrand, got her under control. She returned to the track minutes later, wired the race, and won easily. Due to her success, track officials weighted Beldame so heavily she won only twice at the age of four.
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On August 22, 2008, she outran Lemon Drop Mom to win the Grade I Personal Ensign Handicap by a head bob. Frankel then decided to point his champion mare to the Grade I Beldame Stakes and Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic to attempt to become the leading female purse winner in North America. However, on a sloppy track at Belmont Park on September 27, Ginger Punch finished a neck behind Cocoa Beach in the $600,000 Beldame Stakes.
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The 1905 Standard Stakes was won by the outstanding racemare Beldame. Recognized as the American Horse of the Year of 1904, she was a 1956 U.S. Hall of Fame inductee for whom the Beldame Stakes is named. The three-year-old filly Whimsical won the 1906 Standard Stakes. She came into the race after she had won the May 22 Preakness Stakes at the Gravesend track, a victory which at that time made her the second filly to ever win that American Classic.
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To that she added the 1996 Alabama Stakes on August 17th and then won the Ruffian Stakes on September 14th. Yanks Music won the final race of her career when she captured the 1996 Beldame Stakes.
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On September 30 in the Beldame Stakes, Ginger Punch was sent off as the betting favorite and finished third. For the annual Breeders' Cup, owner Frank Stronach usually nominates twenty to thirty percent of his large stable of foals, but Ginger Puch had not been one of them. Despite her loss in the Beldame Stakes, trainer Bobby Frankel convinced Stronach to pay the $180,000 supplemental fee in order for her to run in late October's Breeders' Cup Distaff at Monmouth Park. Heavy rains left the Monmouth track in a very muddy condition.
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At age two, Love Sign met with little success but at age three in 1980 won five Graded stakes races including Grade I wins in the Alabama Stakes at Saratoga Race Course and the first of two straight editions of the Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park. As a four-year-old Love Sign was still a top contender, winning two Graded stakes plus her second Grade 1 Beldame. At age five in 1982, Love Sign won two more Graded stakes races before being retired to serve as a broodmare.
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Through September 1953, the four-year-old La Corredora had won only two non-stakes races. However, in the September 19 Beldame Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack she showed signs she might be getting back to top form. In spite of traffic problems on the first turn and then being forced wide as she turned for home, La Corredora finished a strong third in the Beldame to the Darby Dan Farm winner Atalanta. On October 7 she won America's oldest stakes race for fillies and mares, the Ladies Handicap at Belmont Park.
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After missing nearly a year of racing, she returned in September of her three-year-old season to win four races, including the Grade I Beldame Stakes. As a four-year-old, she won seven races, all but one of which was at the Grade I level, including a victory in the prestigious Whitney Handicap against male horses. She ended her season by repeating in the Beldame and then taking the Breeders' Cup Distaff. For this feat, she was voted the 1988 Eclipse Award as the American Champion Older Female Horse.
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Serena's Song also beat males that year in the Jim Beam Stakes and the Haskell Invitational Handicap. She defeated older females in the Beldame Stakes. That year, she brought home the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly award, winning $1,524,920.
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The September Stakes would produce three winners whose racing careers achieved the sport's ultimate acknowledgement of greatness with induction into the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame. The first was Kingston, a part of the 1955 inaugural class, then Beldame in 1956 who was followed by Salvator in 1988.
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The chestnut filly was foaled near Lexington, Kentucky, in 1901. She was by Octagon, out of the English-bred Bella Donna (by The Derby winner Hermit). Named Beldame, she was a homebred of August Belmont Jr.'s (after whose family the Belmont Stakes as well as Belmont Park were named), and though Belmont Jr. continued to own her, he leased her as a two- and three-year-old to a business associate named Newton Bennington. Although she won two races before going to Bennington, it was while racing for him that Beldame began her great career, earning her place as number 98 in the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century.
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"They both made me proud today, especially my filly," said Romero. "A mile isn't even her best distance. I just let her run her race and knew she would get the job done." On October 16, Personal Ensign entered the Beldame Stakes to defend her victory in the previous year's race.
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Saint Liam's most notable offspring is Havre de Grace (foaled May 12, 2007, out of Easter Brunette by Carson City), who won the 2011 Horse of the Year award while capturing the Azeri, Woodward, Beldame, Apple Blossom H., and Obeah Stakes, and running against males in the Breeders' Cup Classic.
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"The winner ran a bang-up race. We got outrun. If I had to do it all over again, I would have rode her a little differently and got brave early." On September 29, Royal Delta showed her dominance while winning the grade I Beldame Stakes by 9 1/2 lengths over It's Tricky.
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Airmans Guide (foaled in 1957 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. The granddaughter of Count Fleet won the Delaware Handicap and the Beldame Stakes. On May 20, 1960, Airmans Guide won the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. In 1961, she was voted by the country's top sports writers as the American Champion Older Female Horse.
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That year, she won the Standard Handicap, and then, carrying more weight than the males, she won the Suburban Handicap, beating Broomstick by five lengths. Beldame retired with 17 wins, 6 places, and 4 shows from 31 starts. Her earnings amounted to $102,570. Following Firenze and Miss Woodford, she was the third filly to win more than $100,000.
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Sent to Saratoga Race Course, Africander won two races in August and was second to the filly Beldame in the August 20 Saratoga Cup. On September 13, 1904, Africander won the mile and a half Brighton Cup Trial, then four days later earned his most important win of the year, capturing the two and a quarter mile Brighton Cup.
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As a two-year-old, Beldame won the Great Filly Stakes at Sheepshead Bay Race Track and the Vernal Stakes (wiring the field). When Beldame was three, she won twelve of her fourteen starts, earning the championship of her division. Her only losses came against older males. That year, she took the Alabama Stakes, the Gazelle Handicap (by ten lengths on a sloppy track), the Carter Handicap (against males by over two lengths under a stout hold), the Ladies Stakes, the Saratoga Cup (beating the year-older Belmont Stakes winner and Champion Three-Year-Colt, Africander), the First Special, the Second Special, the Dolphin Sakes, the Mermaid Stakes (winning by seven lengths and drawing away from the field even as she was being eased up), and the September Stakes.
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Cicada entered the Kentucky Oaks and won by three lengths. The purse made her the world's leading money- winning filly or mare of all time, replacing Bewitch. She finished the year with 8 wins from 17 starts. Her other wins included the Acorn, Mother Goose and Beldame Stakes, in which she broke Kelso's track record for nine furlongs at Aqueduct.
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Stopchargingmaria was scheduled to meet the Kentucky Oaks winner Untapable in the Cotillion Stakes over eight and a half furlongs at Parx on September 20 but was scratched from the race and appeared a week later in the Beldame Stakes against older fillies and mares. She started the 31/20 favourite but lost to the five-year-old Belle Gallantey by eight lengths.
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At one point Stymie got his head in front, but Gallorette fought back and won. The rest of the year, she won or was in the money in the Bay Shore Handicap, the Beldame Stakes, the Butler Stakes, the Wilson Stakes, the Edgemere Handicap, the Sysonby Purse, and the Mass Cap. She won the Queens County Handicap when she was five in 1947.
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In 1961, Airmans Guide won the grade one Delaware Handicap at Delaware Park under jockey Howard Grant in 2:02.4 for the 1 miles. She also won the prestigious grade one Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park in New York. After that race, her trainer Burt Williams lobbied for a division championship in the media. That year, Airmans Guide was voted American Champion Older Female Horse.
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William Whitney died in Artful's two- year-old season and his son, Harry Payne Whitney, succeeded him. In her three- year-old season, Artful won two sprints to prepare for the Brighton Handicap which she took "pulling up," (slowing down). She defeated, Beldame as well as Delhi, the 1904 winner of the Belmont Stakes. Her last win was a quarter of a mile race.
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Imperial Gesture had her first race on July 29, 2001 at Delmar, coming in 2nd place. She captured her first win the following month on August 24, 2001 at Saratoga. She came in 2nd in both September and October 2001 in the Oak Leaf Stakes and the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. On September 7th, 2002, she won the 2002 Gazelle Handicap and on October 5th, 2002, she won the Beldame Stakes.
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She was first or second in eleven straight races against her own sex; her second against the boys came in the Lawrence Realization. Vagrancy raced 42 times and hit the board in 31 of her starts. She won most of the most important stakes races in New York at the time for fillies, including the Ladies Handicap, the Alabama, the Test, the Coaching Club American Oaks, and the Gazelle. One of Vagrancy's most famous race was probably the Beldame Stakes in which she led for most of the race but was caught at the wire by Barrancosa; following a review of the photo, the race was declared a dead heat. From The Times: “William Woodward, of Belair Stud was chairman of the Jockey Club and breeder and owner of Vagrancy, flipped a coin in the unsaddling enclosure after the finish and thereby lost possession for the coming year of the Beldame Trophy.
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Like Fleet Indian, she was rushed onto an equine ambulance and vanned off. After the race, which was won by Beldame Stakes third-place finisher Round Pond, it was discovered that Fleet Indian had suffered a lateral colyndar fracture. Fleet Indian had surgery at Dr. Larry Bramlage's Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, and survived her injuries. Pine Island was not so lucky, however, and she was euthanized shorty after the Distaff.
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Ocean Wave (born 1940) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was a main rival of Count Fleet in the early 1940s. Owned by Calumet Farm, he was trained by Ben Jones and owned by Warren Wright,Beldame Handicap and Cowdin Stakes Top Closing Card At Aqueduct Today, New York Times, September 19, 1942, pg. 19. Ocean Wave was the son of Blenheim and Columbiana.Ocean Wave Pedigree, All Breed Database, retrieved on April 22, 2010.
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Beldame, a third Dolphin Stakes winner that would be inducted in the Hall of Fame, won the 1904 running. For that year she would be named American Horse of the Year.The Bloodhorse.com Champion's history charts The final edition of the Dolphin Stakes was won by Gliding Belle, a filly owned by William F. Schulte who had been an owner of Churchill Downs and served as president and CEO from 1895 to 1901.
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"She was never dragging Johnny along the way she normally does. She left there flat and ran flat the whole way." She rebounded in the Beldame Stakes at Belmont, moving to the lead turning into the stretch and then holding off a late charge from Happy Ticket to win by half a length. In the final start of her career, Ashado finished third in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, held that year at Belmont Park on October 29.
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Orb is a bay colt with a small white star bred and owned by Stuart S. Janney III and Phipps Stable. He was sired by Malibu Moon, whose other progeny include the Grade I winners Declan's Moon, Devil May Care, Life At Ten (Beldame Stakes) and Malibu Prayer (Ruffian Handicap). His dam, Lady Liberty, was sired by the 1990 Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled. Lady Liberty won four races in 12 starts and was retired from racing in 2005.
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She continued to draw away "effortlessly, relentlessly" to win by 11 lengths. On August 20, she followed up by winning the John A. Morris Handicap by lengths despite carrying 127 pounds – from 13 to 20 pounds more than any of her rivals. She finished the year by finishing second in the Beldame to Serena's Song and second in the Distaff to stablemate Inside Information. Heavenly Prize made one start at age five, taking on male horses in the Donn Handicap.
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In 1960 Berlo won five major races including the Coaching Club American Oaks,New York Times - June 26, 1960 the Beldame Handicap,New York Times - October 2, 1960 and on October 12, the grueling mile and a half Ladies Handicap.New York Times - October 13, 1960 at New York's Belmont Park. However, the next day her handlers announced she would not race again that year.New York Times - October 14, 1960 Berlo's dominating performances earned her 1960 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly honors.
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Racing in Chicago, in July she won the Arlington Matron Handicap Sarasota Journal, July 19, 1957 and in early September the Washington Park Handicap.New York Times, September 2, 1957 and then on September 21 the Beldame Handicap at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.Victoria Advocate, September 22, 1957 After winning the October 17 Spinster Stakes Prep at Keeneland Kentucky New Era, October 18, 1957 she finished second to Bornastar in the Spinster Stakes. Pucker Up was voted American Champion Older Female Horse of 1957.
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Once again the 2–5 favorite for the race, Fleet Indian broke cleanly from the gate, and led the field early on. She won the race by 5 1/2 lengths in gate-to-wire fashion. Fleet Indian won her first Gr.I race, the Personal Ensign, next out, winning by 4 lengths, again in gate-to-wire fashion. Fleet Indian looked to keep her seven-race winning streak going when she contested the Gr.I Beldame Stakes, a final prep for the Breeders' Cup Distaff.
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In September 2008 a new edition was published with additional journal entries from 1845 to 1854. A notable diary entry of 26 December 1842 relates one of the earliest English examples of Father Christmas acting as gift-giver: "the venerable effigies of Father Christmas with scarlet coat & cocked hat, stuck all over with presents for the guests, by his side the old year, a most dismal & haggard old beldame in a night cap and spectacles, then 1843 [the new year], a promising baby asleep in a cradle".
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Then she raced in the third jewel of the New York Triple Tiara, the 1¼-mile Alabama Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, which she won by nine lengths. She next won another Grade I event, the Gazelle Handicap, then ran second in the Beldame Stakes to Beautiful Pleasure. The heavy parimutuel betting favorite for the 1999 Breeders' Cup Distaff, Silverbulletday was in contention until the stretch drive but then faded and finished sixth to winner Beautiful Pleasure. Silverbulletday's performances in 1999 earned her United States Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly honors.
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In 1981, Glorious Song was assigned to trainer John Cairns. Although her 1981 racing season was hampered by various problems, she still earned a second- place finish in the Beldame Stakes and won the Grade 1 Santa Maria Handicap at Santa Anita Park as well as her second Dominion Day Stakes, in which she set a Woodbine track record for a mile and one-eighth. That year, her career earnings topped the $1 million figure, the first for a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. She earned her second straight Sovereign Award for Champion Older Female Horse.
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Heavenly Prize (February 17, 1991 - 2013) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse. She was a Grade I winner at ages two, three and four, and never finished out of the money. She was named the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly of 1994 after winning the Alabama, Gazelle and Beldame Stakes, plus finishing second in the Breeders' Cup Distaff. Her four-year-old campaign was equally noteworthy, with wins in the Apple Blossom, Hempstead (now the Ogden Phipps), Go for Wand and John A. Morris (now the Personal Ensign).
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Sent to the track at age two by trainer Bill Mott, in her four starts Ajina won a maiden race plus the 1996 Tempted and Demoiselle Stakes. In her only other start, she ran second. At age three, the filly started nine times, finishing third twice and running second in the 1997 Alabama and Beldame Stakes. Ridden by Mike E. Smith, Ajina won the Coaching Club American Oaks and Mother Goose Stakes then scored the most important win of her racing career at Hollywood Park Racetrack by capturing the Breeders' Cup Distaff.
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Bird Town (foaled April 11, 2000) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. After showing some promise when winning one of her four starts as a two-year-old in 2002, she emerged as one of the best North American fillies of her generation in the following summer with wins in the Kentucky Oaks and the Acorn Stakes. She also finished second in the Test Stakes and the Beldame Stakes before being retired at the end of the season with a record of four wins in twelve races.
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The last two races of her career were both wins, coming in the September 8, 2001, Gazelle Handicap and then the Beldame Stakes. Scheduled to compete in the October 27, 2001 Breeders' Cup Distaff at Belmont Park, Exogenous suffered a skull fracture after she flipped onto her back while leaving the paddock before the start of the race. Initially it was thought she would heal and likely race again but her condition worsened during the week. When she could no longer stand up, the decision was made to humanely euthanize her.
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At age four, Desert Vixen started slowly but then earned three important wins in her eleven races. One of her three second-place finishes came when she raced on turf for the first time in her career in the prestigious Washington, D.C. International. In that Grade I race, she finished behind winner Admetus but ahead of the superstar filly Dahlia, who had won the race in 1973. Desert Vixen won her second Beldame Stakes by 11½ lengths and tied the Atlantic City Race Course track record in winning the Matchmaker Handicap.
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Untapable held off the late challenge of Sweet Reason and won by a length in atime of 1:42.30. Untapable took on older fillies and mares for the first time in the Breeders' Cup Distaff at Santa Anita on October 31 and started 8/5 favorite. Her biggest danger appeared to be the five-time Grade I winner Close Hatches while her other rivals included Belle Gallantey (Beldame Stakes), Iotapa (Vanity Handicap) and Don't Tell Sophia (Spinster Stakes). Forced to race on the outside she made rapid progress on the final turn before taking the lead from Iotapa entering the straight.
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She also won the Beldame Stakes, the Comely Stakes and the Vagrancy Handicap. She was the brown daughter of Discovery out of The Schemer out of Challenger II and was bred by Alfred G. Vanderbilt II. She was owned by Harry LaMontagne, who purchased Conniver as a yearling for $1,500. The gawky, 17-hand mare was undistinguished at ages 2 and 3 and was nearly sold as a polo pony prior to the 1948 season. When Conniver retired at age 5, she had earned $227,825 from 56 starts with 15 wins, 6 seconds and 6 thirds.
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Her stablemate, Speightstown, gave Pletcher a second Breeders' Cup win in 2004 in the Sprint division as well as a second Eclipse award when he was named Outstanding Sprint Horse that same year. In 2005, Pletcher set a single season earnings record with purse earnings totaling $20,867,842 with trips to the winner's circle in ten Grade 1 races, including the Travers Stakes at Saratoga with Flower Alley and the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland Race Course with Bandini. Pletcher broke his own single-season earnings record on October 7, 2006, when Fleet Indian captured the Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park.
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Nonetheless, she was overshadowed by Azeri in voting for the American Champion Older Female Horse honors despite the fact the two fillies met twice with Sightseek beating Azeri by 11 lengths in the 2004 Ogden Phipps Handicap and Azeri beating Sightseek by 1½ lengths in the Go for Wand Handicap. The 2004 World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings rated the two fillies equal. Following Sightseek's final race on October 9, 2004, her second straight win of the GI Beldame Stakes, trainer Bobby Frankel called Sightseek the best filly he had ever trained. Sightseek was retired to broodmare duty at Juddmonte Farms near Lexington, Kentucky.
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Into the stretch Curalina battled with I'm a Chatterbox, with one final surge Curalina was about to pass I'm a Chatterbox but I'm a Chatterbox hit Curalina and made her trip so I'm a Chatterbox won by a nose over Curalina. Then after the race Saratoga stewards ruled I'm a Chatterbox came into Curalina's path deep in the stretch and disqualified the top finisher to second. Curalina finished her 3-year-old season with a 3rd in the GI Alabama Stakes, a 2nd against older mares in the GI Beldame Stakes, and a strong 3rd in the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff.
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Hollywood Park.com In a race that determined the winner of that year's American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, she ran second to Ajina in the 1997 Breeders' Cup Distaff. Racing as a four-year-old for trainer Wally Dollase, Sharp Cat won two more Grade 1 races, the Ruffian Handicap and, in a race in which she earned an exceptional 119 Beyer Speed Figure, the Beldame Stakes.ESPN - May 2, 2008 Undefeated that year, Sharp Cat was sent to Churchill Downs for the November 1998 Breeders' Cup Distaff as the pre-race favorite but did not compete after suffering a nearly fatal case of cramping that sent her into shock.
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At age four, Wistful campaigned all over the country, from the northeast in New York to the deep southwest in Southern California. In 1950, she won the Beverly Handicap at Washington Park Racetrack, and at Arlington Park in Chicago won the Arlington Matron Handicap and ran third in the Cleopatra Handicap. She also won the Clang Handicap and placed third in the prestigious Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park in New York. In the spring of her five-year-old season, Wistful won the Ben Ali Stakes at Keeneland, less than one mile from where she was born and raised on Versailles Road in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Saratoga Dew (foaled 1989 in New York) is an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. Bred by Penny Chenery , owner of Secretariat, and raced by Charles F. Engel, in 1992 Saratoga Dew became the first New York-bred horse to win an Eclipse Award. Trained by Gary Sciacca and ridden by Herb McCauley in her major races, en route to earning 1992 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly honors, Saratoga Dew won eight times. In top level races she was second by a nose in the Alabama Stakes then scored wins in the Grade 1 Gazelle Handicap and Beldame Stakes and the Grade 2 Comely Stakes.
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" At Belmont on October 4, Bird Town was matched against older fillies and mares for the first time in the Grade I Beldame Stakes over nine furlongs. Ridden by Aaron Gryder, she took the lead soon after the start and set the pace before being overtaken on the final turn by the favored Sightseek and finished second, four and a half lengths behind the older filly. Despite her defeat, Zito praised his filly saying "I can't be more thrilled... I don't care what anybody tells me, Bird Town is the best three-year-old filly right now. We put up a good fight and that's all I cared about.
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Round Pond resumed racing the following February and made her 2006 debut, an allowance race at Oaklawn Park, a winning one that she followed with another graded win- the Azeri Stakes. After the Azeri Stakes, Round Pond developed foot issues that kept her sidelined until late summer. To prep for the upcoming Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs, Round Pond ran in the Molly Pitcher Stakes and Beldame Stakes, finishing second and third, respectively. Round Pond was sent off at outsider odds of 14-1 in the 2006 Breeders' Cup Distaff, the bettors giving most of the attention to Fleet Indian, who was entering the Distaff on an 8-race win streak.
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Levee raced in a time before the current US stakes race grading system, so while she is technically not a graded stakes winner, many of the race she won are now graded. Her first stakes win came in the 1955 Selima Stakes during her two-year-old season. At three, she won the Monmouth Oaks after placing third several times in the Alabama Stakes, Acorn Stakes, Test Stakes and Prioress Stakes. Levee then won the Coaching Club American Oaks, described as "America's toughest stakes for 3-year-old fillies" by a neck from Princess Turia, and the Beldame Stakes both of which are now grade 1 stakes.Equibase.
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Personal Ensign made her next start on October 18 in the Beldame Stakes run at Belmont Park over miles, where she faced older horses for the first time, plus several of the leading three-year- old fillies in the country. She was the second betting choice behind the entry of Coup de Fusil, who had won three straight Grade I races, and Clabber Girl. It was the only time in her career that she was not the favorite. In a change from her normal running style, she stayed close to the pace and took the lead after six furlongs, opening the lead to four lengths in mid-stretch.
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In pre-Victorian personifications, Father Christmas had been concerned essentially with adult feasting and games. He had no particular connection with children, nor with the giving of presents. But as Victorian Christmases developed into family festivals centred mainly on children, Father Christmas started to be associated with the giving of gifts. The Cornish Quaker diarist Barclay Fox relates a family party given on 26 December 1842 that featured "the venerable effigies of Father Christmas with scarlet coat & cocked hat, stuck all over with presents for the guests, by his side the old year, a most dismal & haggard old beldame in a night cap and spectacles, then 1843 [the new year], a promising baby asleep in a cradle".
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She was a promising winner at age two and then ran twenty-one times at age three, when she was named the 1942 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. She was also the champion "handicap" filly that season after beating the older crops in head-to-head races. At age three, she bloomed into the champion of her crop, winning nine stakes races that included the Coaching Club American Oaks, the Pimlico Oaks, the Delaware Oaks, the Alabama Stakes, the Gazelle Stakes and the Test Stakes against her own age, and the Beldame Handicap and Ladies Handicap against older fillies and mares. She compiled a record of ten wins, four seconds, and one third.
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As a three-year-old Miss Request won the Delaware Oaks, the Busher Handicap at Belmont Park then after defeating the great Gallorette to win the Ladies Handicap in September, she defeated colts in the October 9, 1948 Empire City Handicap to clinch American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly honors. Racing at age four, Miss Request earned her most important win of 1949 in the Beldame Handicap. In other major races, she finished second in the Ladies Handicap. Competing against males, she ran third in the New Orleans Handicap to stablemate My Request, and in the two-mile long Jockey Club Gold Cup, she finished a very solid third behind winner Ponder.
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She finished the miles in a stakes- record 1:40.30 and established herself as the heavy favorite for the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic in October. On October 24, 2008, Zenyatta was sent off as the 1–2 favorite for the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic, held during the Oak Tree meeting at Santa Anita. The field included four other horses who had won at the Grade I level in 2008: Ginger Punch, who had won the Ogden Phipps and Go For Wand Handicaps since losing to Zenyatta in the Apple Blossom, Carriage Trail (Spinster Stakes), Cocoa Beach (Beldame) and Music Note (Gazelle Stakes). Zenyatta dropped back at the start behind a moderate pace set by Bear Now.
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Her Woodward victory was followed by the October 1 Grade I Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, in which she scored by 8 1/4 lengths over eventual Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic winner Royal Delta. Havre de Grace closed out her 2011 campaign in the Breeders' Cup Classic on November 5, 2011, at Churchill Downs where she was again pitted against male horses. However, she fell short in her attempt to join Zenyatta in becoming only the second female racehorse to win the richest horse race in North America, finishing fourth behind the winner, Drosselmeyer. Despite her Breeders' Cup defeat, voters considered her accomplishments worthy enough to crown her as American Horse of the Year.
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As a three-year-old in 1965, What a Treat won seven of the top races for her age group, including a win over older stars Tosmah and Affectionately in capturing the Beldame Stakes. At age four, carrying high weight, What a Treat finished off the board in the February 15, 1966 Columbiana Handicap at Florida's Hialeah Park Race Track. On that same track, she then won the March 2 Black Helen Handicap and won again at Aqueduct Racetrack on April 14 before running second in the Bed O' Roses Handicap. The rest of her 1966 campaign brought What a Treat limited success, with her finishing off the board in important races such as the Diana Handicap, Ladies Handicap, and Maskette Handicap.
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Desert Vixen began racing at age two and met with limited success, winning only one of her five starts. At age three, Desert Vixen was the dominant filly in her class, winning eight straight races including a number of important Grade I stakes and tying the Belmont Park track record held by Canonero II in the Beldame Stakes.Sports Illustrated September 24, 1973 article titled "They Made Pigeons of the Field" Retrieved July 5, 2018 She broke the stakes record in the 1973 Gazelle Handicap which had been set by Susan's Girl the previous year.New York Times September 4, 1973 article titled "Desert Vixen Sets Record in Belmont's Gazelle" Retrieved June 30, 2018 Her performance earned her the 1973 Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Filly.
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In 1988, Personal Ensign won all seven of her starts, including the Shuvee Stakes, the Hempstead Stakes, the Maskette Stakes, and the Beldame Stakes --all prestigious Grade I races against fillies and mares. At Saratoga, she defeated males in the historic Whitney Handicap. Her swan song was a nose victory over Kentucky Derby winner Winning Colors in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, a race that is often referred to as the most exciting finish in Breeder's Cup history. Personal Ensign made her four-year-old debut on May 15, 1988 in the Shuvee Handicap at Belmont Park. She went off as the 7-10 favorite in a field of six despite the seven month layoff and carrying top weight of 121 pounds.
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Rachel Alexandra wins Horse of the Year – ESPN Rachel Alexandra was the only 3-year-old filly to receive the Eclipse Horse of the Year Award since the Eclipse Awards began in 1971. (Azeri 2002, Lady's Secret 1986, and All Along 1983 – all were 4 years old when they won). Prior to the advent of the Eclipse Awards, there were comparable awards known as the Horse of the Year, in which there had been four other 3-year-old filly winners (Busher, Twilight Tear, Regret, and Beldame), and one 2-year-old filly (Moccasin). On September 29, 2010, just days after that Rachel Alexandra's retirement was announced, The Fair Grounds Race Course renamed the Silverbulletday Stakes to the Rachel Alexandra Stakes to honor her.
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At age two Parlo's best major race result was a second in the 1953 Demoiselle Stakes. In 1954 Parlo had major wins that included the Delaware Oaks at Delaware Park Racetrack,New York Times - June 27, 1954 the Alabama Stakes at Saratoga Race Course,New York Times - Aug 26, 1954 the Beldame Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack in stakes record time,Hartford Courant September 19, 1954 and the Firenze Handicap at Jamaica Race Course by seven lengths.New York Times - October 31, 1954 At the end of the year she was voted 1954 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly New York Times - June 9, 1955 and took the Daily Racing Form award for Champion Female Handicap Horse. In June 1955 Parlo won the Top Flight Handicap, setting a new Belmont Park track record time.
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On November 4 Surfside contested the Breeders' Cup Distaff at Churchill Downs and started at odds of 10.3/1 behind Riboletta (winner of the Beldame Stakes), Beautiful Pleasure (winner of the previous year's edition on the race) and Jostle (CCA Oaks, Alabama Stakes). Day sent Surfside to the front from the start and the filly opened up a clear lead on the backstretch and maintained a narrow advantage into the final turn. Overtaken by Spain (a 55.9/1 outsider) who challenged along the rail in the straight, she finished second, one and a half length behind the winner. Three weeks later, Surfside was matched against colts and older horses in the Grade II Clark Handicap over nine furlongs at Churchill Downs and started second favorite behind the Belmont Stakes runner-up Aptitude.
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Often ridden by the Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Arcaro, she then took eight stakes in a row, including the Kentucky Oaks, Coaching Club American Oaks, Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (once known as the Pimlico Oaks), Ashland Stakes, Modesty Handicap, and Beldame Stakes. By winning the Kentucky Oaks, the Black- Eyed Susan, and the CCA Oaks, she was the second filly to win this early version of the Triple Crown for fillies. The only filly to do so before her was Wistful. (Today's Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing consists of the Acorn Stakes, the Mother Goose Stakes, and the CCA Oaks.) In 1952, Real Delight was voted the United States Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, and took the Daily Racing Form's award for United States Champion Female Handicap Horse in competition with older fillies and mares.
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Asmussen scored his first important graded stakes race win at the Beldame Stakes in 1979 and won that year's Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. In 1981, he rode Wayward Lass to victory in the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont Park (over the 1-5 entry of De La Rose and Heavenly Cause, who ran last and next-to-last), and traveled to Japan where he won the Japan Cup. The following year he won the Washington, D.C. International Stakes and his first of two Turf Classic Invitational Stakes then gained his most success as a jockey racing in France where he went to ride under contract for the wealthy stable owner, Stavros Niarchos. While based at Chantilly Racecourse in Chantilly, France, Asmussen also scored victories in a number of important stakes races in England including the 1988 July Cup, 1989 Coronation Stakes, 1990 Coronation Cup, and the 1993 St. James's Palace Stakes.
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