Safely Kept Stakes

The Safely Kept Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. Open to fillies aged three, it is competed on dirt over a distance of seven furlongs. Run during October, it offers a purse of $100,000.

Safely Kept Stakes
Grade III race
LocationLaurel Park Racecourse,
Laurel, Maryland,
United States
Inaugurated1986
Race typeThoroughbred – Flat racing
Websitewww.laurelpark.com
Race information
Distance7 furlong sprint
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds fillies
WeightAssigned
Purse$125,000

The Safely Kept Breeders' Cup Stakes is one of the top sprints for three-year-old fillies in the country. One of the few six-furlong contests with graded status for three-year-olds that leads to the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. It was inaugurated in 1986 as the Columbia Stakes. The stakes record is held by Godmother who finished the six furlongs in 1:09.21.[1]

The race is named in honor of Jayeff "B" Stable's and Barry Weisbord's 1989 Eclipse Award Champion Sprinter and 1989 Columbia Stakes winner Safely Kept in 1996. The race has been called several different titles beginning with Columbia Handicap (after a nearby town in Maryland) from 1986–1987, then the Columbia Stakes from 1989–1995.[2]

The race was at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland and has been moved to back and forth from Laurel to Pimlico depending on dates that were assigned by the Maryland Racing Commission. The race was held at Pimlico in 1986–1987, 1989, and 1991–1996. The race was run at Colonial Downs in New Kent, Virginia in 1997. The race was run at Laurel in 1988, 1990, 1998–2000 and from 2006 to present.[3] The race was run at ​6 1⁄2 furlongs in 1987 and 1988.

The Safely Kept Breeders' Cup Stakes was given Graded stakes status in 1990. On August 7, 2008 it was announced that the race would be on hiatus for 2008, the Maryland Jockey Club cited financial distress as the reason for the races' cancellation. The annual grading session of the American Graded Stakes Committee listed Safely Kept S. at Laurel Park not eligible for grading for 2010.

Records

Speed record:

  • 6 furlongs – 1:09.12 – Miss Indy Anna (1993)
  • 6.5 furlongs – 1:16.40 – Clever Power (1988)
  • 7 furlongs – 1:23.68 – Who's In Town (2014)

Most wins by a horse:

  • No horse has won the Safely Kept Stakes more than once

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 – H. Joseph Allen (1990 & 2003)
  • 2 – Robert E. Meyerhoff (1995 & 1998)

Winners of the "Safely Kept Stakes" since 1986
Year
 Winner
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Dist.
 Time
Purse
Gr.
2020 7 fur 0:00.00 $100,000
2019 Needs Supervision Feargal Lynch Jeremiah O'Dwyer Howling Pigeons Farm 7 fur 1:23.51 $100,000
2018 America's Tale Trevor McCarthy Bernie Flint Naveed Chowhan 7 fur 1:23.97 $100,000
2017 Berned Feargal Lynch Graham Motion Three C Stables, etc. 7 fur 1:22.54 $100,000
2016 Tale for Ruby Edgar Prado Barclay Tagg Charles Fipke 7 fur 1:23.51 $100,000
2015 Hot City Girl Cornelio Velásquez Linda Rice Lady Sheila Stable 6 fur 1:09.67 $100,000
2014 Who's In Town Julian Pimentel Michael Matz Richard Golden 7 fur 1:23.68 $100,000
2013 Lady Sabelia Horacio Karamanos Robin Graham Mrs. Frank P. Wright 7 fur 1:23.97 $100,000
2012 Greed and Fear Horacio Karamanos Rudy Rodriguez Michael Dubb 7 fur 1:25.13 $125,000
2011 no race no race no race no race 7 fur 1:25.13 $125,000
2010 no race no race no race no race 7 fur 1:25.13 $125,000
2009 no race no race no race no race 7 fur 1:25.13 $125,000
2008 no race no race no race no race 7 fur 1:25.13 $125,000
2007 Sindy with an S Jeremy Rose Mike R. Mitchell Dream Stable, LLC 6 fur 1:10.16 $200,000 III
2006 Wild Gams Ryan Fogelsonger Ben Perkins Jr. Everett B. Novak 6 fur 1:09.93 $200,000 III
2005 Trikle of Gold Jeremy Rose Michael Gorham John Murphy 6 fur 1:10.45 $150,000 III
2004 Bending Strings Hector Karamanos Kiaran McLaughlin John Gunther 6 fur 1:10.11 $150,000 III
2003 Randaroo Heberto Castillo Kiaran McLaughlin H. Joseph Allen 6 fur 1:10.54 $150,000 III
2002 Miss Lodi Ryan Fogelsonger Thomas M. Amoss Richard Colton & Henry Mast 6 fur 1:11.20 $150,000 III
2001 Kimbralata Travis Dunkelberger Dale Capuano Donald Mensh 6 fur 1:11.20 $100,000 III
2000 Swept Away Jeremy A. Beasley Bernard Flint Rich Bertram & Elaine Klein 6 fur 1:09.51 $100,000 III
1999 Godfather Mario Pino Robert W. Camac Arthur I. Appleton 6 fur 1:09.21 $100,000 III
1998 Hair Spray José A. Vélez Jr. Charlie Whittingham Robert E. Meyerhoff 6 fur 1:10.67 $110,000 III
1997 Weather Vane Mario Pino Richard Delp Par Four Racing Stable 6 fur 1:10.21 $110,000 III
1996 J J's Dream Mario Pino Eddie Plesa Jr. John A. Franks 6 fur 1:09.45 $100,000 III
1995 Broad Smile Jerilyn Brown Richard W. Small Robert E. Meyerhoff 6 fur 1:10.30 $100,000 III
1994 Twist Afleet Dennis Carr John C. Kimmel Lucille Conover 6 fur 1:10.88 $100,000 III
1993 Miss Indy Anna B. Douglas Thomas Ned Allard Charles T. Matses 6 fur 1:09.12 $100,000 III
1992 Meafara Brian Swatuk Leslie Ahrens Frank Muench 6 fur 1:10.55 $100,000 III
1991 Missy's Mirage Herb McCauley H. Allen Jerkens Middletown Stable 6 fur 1:10.53 $100,000 III
1990 Voodoo Lily Kent Desormeaux D. Wayne Lukas H. Joseph Allen 6 fur 1:10.60 $100,000 III
1989 Safely Kept Craig Perret Alan E. Goldberg Jayeff B Stab/Barry Weisbord 6 fur 1:11.20 $100,000 III
1988 Clever Power Julie Krone Richard E. Dutrow Sr. Marvin Moncrief ​6 1⁄2 fur 1:16.40 $110,000
1987 Endless Surprise Kent Desormeaux Hyman Ravich Peter Angelos ​6 1⁄2 fur 1:17.40 $47,250
1986 Debtor's Prison David Byrnes Not Found Not Found 6 fur 1:11.40 $47,000

See also

References
  1. 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 37 on March 3, 2007.
  2. 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 37 on March 3, 2007.
  3. 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 37 on March 3, 2007.
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