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Agua Caliente Handicap
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1917 - 1958 | |
1-1/4 miles for most runnings, for three-year-olds and upwards at Agua Caliente Racetrack, Agua Caliente, Mexico |
| Year |
Horse |
Statistics |
Sire - Dam - Dam's Sire |
Family No. |
| 1917 |
Sasin (USA) |
b.g. 1913 |
The Picket (USA) - Queen (USA) by Gold Crest (USA) |
1 - o |
| 1918 - 1920 No Race |
| 1921 |
Be Frank (USA) |
b.g. 1916 |
Sir John Johnson (USA) - Frankness (USA) by Miller (USA) |
4 - m |
| 1922 |
Mulciber (USA) |
g. 1918 |
Vulcain (FR) - Tapiola (USA) by The Commoner (USA) |
13 - b |
| 1923 |
Rebuke (USA) |
bl.c. 1919 |
Dick Finnell (USA) - The Scold (USA) by Meddler (GB) |
23 - b |
| 1924 |
Runstar (USA) |
ch.c. 1919 |
Runnymede (USA) - Salvatrix (USA) by Salvation (USA) |
15 |
| 1925 |
Atherstone (USA) |
ch.g. 1920 |
Marathon (USA) - Silica (USA) by Rockton (USA) |
2 - n |
| 1926 |
Carlaris (GB) |
b.c. 1923 |
Pharalis (GB) - Carnival (GB) by Martagon (GB) |
8 - g |
| 1927 |
Sir Harry (USA) |
ch.c. 1924 |
Wildair (USA) - Ballotade (USA) by Ballot (USA) |
12 - b |
| 1928 |
Crystal Pennant (USA) |
ch.c. 1924 |
Pennant (USA) - Crystal Isles (USA) by Great Britain (USA) |
12 - b |
| 1929 |
Golden Prince (USA) |
ch.g. 1924 |
Golden Guinea (GB) - Round the World (USA) by Lackford (GB) |
15 - d |
| 1930 |
Victorian (USA) |
b.c. 1925 |
Whisk Broom (USA) - Prudery (USA) by Peter Pan (USA) |
21 - a |
| 1931 |
Mike Hall (USA) |
b.g. 1924 |
Hourless (USA) - Clonakilty (USA) by Catmint (GB) |
16 - c |
| 1932* |
Phar Lap (NZ) |
ch.g. 1926 |
Night Raid (GB) - Entreaty (NZ) by Winkie (GB) |
2 - r |
| 1933 |
Gallant Sir (USA) |
b.c. 1929 |
Sir Gallahad III (FR) - Sun Spot (USA) by Omar Khayyam (GB) |
1 - n |
| 1934 |
Gallant Sir (USA) |
b.c. 1929 |
Sir Gallahad III (FR) - Sun Spot (USA) by Omar Khayyam (GB) |
1 - n |
| 1935 - 1937 No Race |
| 1938 |
Seabiscuit (USA) |
b.c. 1933 |
Hard Tack (USA) - Swing On (USA) by Whisk Broom (USA) |
5 - j |
| 1939 - 1957 Discontinued |
| 1958** |
Round Table (USA) |
b.c. 1954 |
Princequillo (IRE) - Knight's Daughter (GB) by Sir Cosmo (IRE) |
2 - f |
*The Agua Caliente Handicap, at the time the richest race in the world, was the only North American race run by the famous Australasian champion Phar Lap, who died two weeks later in California.
*In March of 1958, the speedy and sound Round Table won his sixth straight race of the year at Florida's Gulfstream Park, carrying 130 lbs. and equalling Coaltown's record for 1-1/4 miles. At that point his career earnings stood at $973,964.00, and he was closing in on Nashua's U.S. earnings record of over a million dollars. As a promotional strategy for the flagging Agua Caliente Racetrack, the track's management offered to revive the Agua Caliente Handicap -- with $50,000 added -- not run since Seabiscuit had taken it in 1938. A win in this race would put Round Table in the then-rare exclusive ranks of a millionaire winner, and he would do it at Agua Caliente. Assigned 126 pounds for the race by the Agua Caliente handicapper, he easily beat nine others by nine lengths, and lowered the track record for 1-1/16 miles by a second. This was the last running of a race called the Agua Caliente Handicap. By the end of the season, Round Table had won seven more races (and placed second four times), including the Hawthorne Gold Cup, and had become the world's richest race horse, with career earnings of $1,336,364.
1917 - 1929: Run as the Coffroth Handicap at Tijuana, Mexico
1930 - 1958: Run as Agua Caliente Handicap at Agua Caliente, Mexico
Distances:
1917 - 1937: 1-1/4 miles
1938: 1-1/8 miles
1958: 1-1/16 miles
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