Ballston Spa Handicap

Ballston Spa Handicap
Grade II race
Location Saratoga Race Course
Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Inaugurated 1989
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website NYRA - Saratoga Race Course
Race information
Distance 1 116 miles (8.5 furlongs)
Surface Turf
Track Left-handed
Qualification Fillies & Mares, three-years-old & up
Weight Assigned
Purse $400,000 added (2015)

The Ballston Spa Handicap is an American race for thoroughbred horses open to fillies and mares, age three and up, on the turf at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Part of the Breeders' Cup National Stakes Program, it is run at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles, it is a Grade II race currently offering a purse of $400,000.

From its inception in 1989 until 1993 the race was run as the Aqueduct Budweiser Breeders' Cup Handicap at a distance of one mile. From 1994 through 1996, the race was known as the Saratoga Breeders' Cup Handicap, the same name that would later be used for the Saratoga Cup Handicap. Its current name honors Ballston Spa, New York, a small town just south of Saratoga Springs.

The race had its 27th running in 2015.

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 1 116 miles)

Most wins:

Most wins by an owner:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Winners

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
2015 Dacita (CHI) 4 Javier Castellano Chad C. Brown Sheep Pond Partners/Bradley Thoroughbreds 1:39.67
2014 Abaco 6 Jose L. Ortiz Claude R. McGaughey III Phipps Stable 1:42.64
2013 Laughing (IRE) 5 Jose Lezcano Alan E. Goldberg Richard Santulli 1:40.37
2012 Zagora (FR) 5 Ramon Dominguez Chad C. Brown Martin S. Schwartz 1:39.07
2011 Daveron 6 Eddie Castro Graham Motion Team Valor International 1:40.09
2010 Dynaslew 4 Eibar Coa Seth Benzel Live Oak Plantation 1:40.58
2009 Salve Germania (GR) 4 Javier Castellano Waldemar Hickst Hellwig Manfred 1:47.25
2008 Wait A While 5 John R. Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Arindel Farm 1:39.70
2007 Wait A While 4 John R. Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Arindel Farm 1:40.00
2006 My Typhoon 4 Garrett Gomez William I. Mott Live Oak Plantation 1:41.72
2005 Alinghi 4 Edgar Prado Robert J. Frankel John Messara 1:40.30
2004 Ocean Drive 4 John Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Bonnie and Sy Baskin 1:43.92
2003 Stylish 5 John Velazquez William I. Mott Est. Ahmed bin Salman 1:41.03
2002 Surya 4 Jerry Bailey Robert J. Frankel Flaxman Stable 1:52.29
2001 Penny's Gold 4 Jerry Bailey Christophe Clement Overbrook Farm 1:40.69
2000 License Fee 5 Pat Day W. Elliott Walden Winstar Farm 1:43.53
1999 Pleasant Temper 5 Jerry Bailey W. Elliott Walden Mark H. Stanley 1:41.84
1998 Memories of Silver 5 Jerry Bailey James J. Toner Joan & John Phillips 1:40.93
1997 Valor Lady 5 John Velazquez Mark Hennig Jerome & John Amerman 1:39.47
1996 Danish 5 Jose Santos Christophe Clement Jayeff & Leigh 1:41.50
1995 Weekend Madness 5 Shane Sellers Burk Kessinger, Jr. New Phoenix Stable 1:40.34
1994 Weekend Madness 4 Shane Sellers Burk Kessinger, Jr. New Phoenix Stable 1:43.77
1993 One Dreamer 5 Earlie Fires Thomas F. Proctor Glen Hill Farm 1:39.38
1992 Aurora 4 Craig Perret Flint S. Schulhofer Helen K. Groves 1:36.94
1991 Paris Opera 5 Gary Stevens Lawrence Jennings Earle I. Mack 1:37.41
1990 Fire The Groom 3 Frankie Dettori Luca Cumani Randall Dee Hubbard 1:35.20
1989 Wakonda 5 Angel Cordero Jr. Spasoje Dimitrijevic John A. Nerud 1:33.80

References

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