Pimlico Spring Handicap

The Pimlico Spring Handicap was a race for Thoroughbred horses run annually from 1917 through 1932 at Pimlico Race Course racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland. The mile and one-sixteenth race on dirt was open to horses of either sex age three and older.

Pimlico Spring Handicap

Class	Discontinued
Location	Pimlico Race Course Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Inaugurated	1917 - 1932
Race type	Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1+1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
Surface	Dirt
Track	left-handed
Qualification	Three-year-olds & up

Historic notes

For most of its duration, the event attracted top-level horses such as inaugural winner Pennant, the 1913 Belmont Futurity winner and sire of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Equipoise.^[1] Others include 1918 winner Cudgel, who beat that year's American Champion Older Male Horse, Omar Khayyam.^[2] In 1921 Sandy Beal won the Pimlico Spring Handicap beating 1920 Kentucky Derby winner Paul Jones,^[3] and 1922 winner Exterminator had already won a Kentucky Derby and by the time he retired from racing had been named a five-time Champion as well as a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.^[4]

The Pimlico Spring Handicap was a victim of the Great Depression in the United States which brought much consolidation of races at every track and a dramatic reduction in purse money.^{[citation needed]}

Records

Speed record: (at 1 1/16 miles)

• 1:45 0/0 - Edisto (1926)

Most wins by a jockey:

• 2 - Fred Stevens (1924, 1930)

Most wins by a trainer:

• 2 - H. Guy Bedwell (1918, 1920)

Most wins by an owner:

• 2 - Harry Payne Whitney (1917, 1923)
• 2 - J. K. L. Ross (1918, 1920)

Winners

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Dist. (Miles)	Time	Win$
1932	Sun Meadow	4	Jimmy Smith	Thomas D. Rodrock	Katherine E. Hitt	11⁄16 M	1:51.20	$2,910
1931	Frisius	5	Anthony Pascuma	George Tappen	Belair Stud	11⁄16 M	1:47.60	$2,750
1930	Grey Coat	4	Fred Stevens	J. Woods Garth	Samuel Ross	1 M, 70 yds	1:43.80	$7,280
1929	Sortie	4	Pete Walls	Max Hirsch	A. Charles Schwartz	11⁄16 M	1:46.60	$7,230
1928	Canter	5	Steve O'Donnell	Harry Rites	J. Edwin Griffith	11⁄16 M	1:46.20	$7,430
1927	Dangerous	5	Edgar Barnes	Walter A. Carter	Rosedale Stable	11⁄16 M	1:47.20	$7,100
1926	Edisto	4	Henry Erickson	William H. Bringloe	Seagram Stables	11⁄16 M	1:45.00	$6,900
1925	General Thatcher	5	Louis Schaefer	Preston M. Burch	Nevada Stock Farm	11⁄16 M	1:45.20	$6,070
1924	Spot Cash	4	Fred Stevens	James W. Healy	Albert C. Bostwick	11⁄16 M	1:48.00	$6,150
1923	Bunting	4	Linus McAtee	James G. Rowe Sr.	Harry Payne Whitney	11⁄16 M	1:45.40	$6,250
1922	Exterminator	7	Albert Johnson	Eugene Wayland	Willis Sharpe Kilmer	11⁄16 M	1:45.80	$3,650
1921	Sandy Beal	4	Steve Wida	Robert B. Jackson	W. S. Murray	11⁄16 M	1:52.00	$3,650
1920	Boniface	5	Earl Sande	H. Guy Bedwell	J. K. L. Ross	11⁄16 M	1:46.80	$3,650
1919	Royce Rools	4	Tommy Nolan	Andrew G. Blakely	Thomas H. Cross	11⁄16 M	1:48.40	$3,650
1918	Cudgel	4	Lawrence Lyke	H. Guy Bedwell	J. K. L. Ross	1 M, 70 yds	1:43.40	$4,150
1917	Pennant	6	Frank Robinson	Albert Simons	Harry Payne Whitney	1 M, 70 yds	1:46.00	$2,200