Dash Stakes

The Dash Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race first run in 1887 at Sheepshead Bay Race Track in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. A race for two-year-old horses of either sex, it was run on dirt over a distance of 5¾ furlongs.[1]

Dash Stakes
Discontinued stakes race
LocationSheepshead Bay Race Track, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York
Inaugurated1887–1909
Race typeThoroughbred – Flat racing
Race information
Distance5¾ furlongs
TrackDirt, left-handed
QualificationTwo years old
PurseUS$330

An annual event, the Dash Stakes had its final running as an overnight purse on September 1, 1909 after the Republican controlled New York Legislature under Governor Charles Evans Hughes passed the Hart–Agnew anti-betting legislation on June 11, 1908 with penalties allowing for fines and up to a year in prison.[2] [3] The owners of Sheepshead Bay Race Track, and other racing facilities in New York State, struggled to stay in business without betting.[4] Racetrack operators had no choice but to drastically reduce the purse money being paid out; by 1909 the Dash Stakes offered a purse that was as little as one twelfth of what it had been in earlier years.[5] Further restrictive legislation was passed by the New York Legislature in 1910 which deepened the financial crisis for track operators and led to a complete shut down of racing across the state during 1911 and 1912. When a court ruling saw racing return in 1913 it was too late for the Sheepshead Bay facility and it never reopened.[6][7]

Records

Speed record:

  • 5.75 furlongs: 1:11.80 – Miss Kearney (1908)
  • 5 furlongs: 0:58.60 – Jacobite (1905)

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer: Ŧ

Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 – Byron McClelland (1893, 1898)
  • Ŧ based on 20 of the 23 years the race was run.

Winners
Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Dist.
(Miles)		 Time
 Win$
1909 Billiard Ball 2 Eddie Dugan James Blute E. H. Jennings 5.75 F 1:12.60 $330
1908 Miss Kearney 2 Cal Shilling John E. Madden John E. Madden 5.75 F 1:11.80 $1,050
1907 Lawrence P. Daly 2 Dave Nicol William E. Phillips Fred Cook 5 F 1:01.00 $2,900
1906 W. H. Daniel 2 Joseph A. Jones Henry McDaniel E. S. Burke Jr. 5 F 1:00.60 $3,350
1905 Jacobite 2 Willie Davis A. Jack Joyner Sydney Paget 5 F 0:58.60 $4,050
1904 Wild Mint 2 Tommy Burns James G. Rowe Sr. James R. Keene 5 F 1:00.00 $3,175
1903 Lady Amelia 2 Grover Fuller Woodford Clay Woodford Clay 5 F 1:00.00 $3,100
1902 Invincible 2 Lucien Lyne A. Jack Joyner Albemarle Stable 5 F 0:59.00 $3,120
1901 Heno 2 Tommy Burns Charles F. Hill Clarence Mackay 5 F 0:59.60 $2,540
1900 Bellario 2 Danny Maher Fred Burlew Newton Bennington 5 F 1:00.40 $2,370
1899 Mesmerist 2 Winfield O'Connor Julius J. Bauer Bromley & Co. (Joseph E. Bromley & Arthur Featherstone) 5 F 1:00.60 $2,190
1898 Ways and Means 2 Danny Maher Byron McClelland Byron McClelland 5 F 1:01.00 $1,850
1897 Alice Farley 2 Danny Maher James O. Gray James O. Gray 5 F 1:01.00 $1,430
1896 The Friar 2 Fred Littlefield R. Wyndham Walden A. H. & D. H. Morris 5 F 1:01.00 $1,425
1895 Crescendo 2 Felix Carr Pueblo Stable (J. Naglee Burk) 5 F 1:02.00 $1,600
1894 Brandywine 2 Alonzo Clayton John W. Rogers Perry Belmont 5 F 1:01.60 $1,970
1893 Henry of Navarre 2 Clarence Bryant Byron McClelland Byron McClelland 5 F 1:01.40 $2,145
1892 Runyon 2 Joaquin Narvaez Matthew M. Allen Frank A. Ehret 5 F 1:02.60 $2,260
1891 Dashing Belle 2 Marty Bergen Hardy Campbell Jr. Michael F. Dwyer 5 F 1:03.00 $2,360
1890 Eclipse 2 W. Steppe Sennett & Warn 5 F 1:02.40 $2,445
1889 Reclare 2 Daly Henry Warnke Jr. Henry Warnke & Son 5 F 1:02.00 $2,705
1888 Champagne Charley 2 Johnson W. P. Maxwell W. P. Maxwell 5 F 1:01.40 $2,060
1887 Van Leland 2 Reginald Harris Phil Gillman Dan Honig 5 F 1:02.00 $2,125

References
  1. "Winners of the Dash Stakes". Daily Racing Form. 1909-09-01. Retrieved 2019-01-15 – via University of Kentucky Archives.
  2. "New York Form Chart". Daily Racing Form. 1909-09-02. Retrieved 2019-01-15 – via University of Kentucky Archives.
  3. "Penalties in the New York Bills". Daily Racing Form. 1908-01-18. Retrieved 2018-10-26 – via University of Kentucky Archives.
  4. "Keep Up Betting Ban". New York Times. 1908-09-01. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  5. "Striking Falling off in Value of Ten Greatest Stakes". Daily Racing Form. 1910-07-16. Retrieved 2018-10-15 – via University of Kentucky Archives.
  6. "Destruction Wrought by Hughes". Daily Racing Form. 1908-12-15. Retrieved 2018-11-30 – via University of Kentucky Archives.
  7. "Famous Old Track is Sold". Daily Racing Form. 1914-11-17. Retrieved 2018-11-30 – via University of Kentucky Archives.
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