The second race is the
Adirondack Stakes G II.
The Adirondack Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race first run in 1901. Held in the middle of August at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York, the Adirondack Stakes is open to two-year-old fillies willing to race six and a half furlongs on the dirt. It is a Grade II event with a purse of $150,000. Named for the Adirondack Mountains of northeastern New York State, the race was first run in 1901 as a handicap for two-year-olds of either sex. Beginning in 1930 the race was restricted to fillies.
Since inception, the Adirondack has been contested at various distances:
5.5 furlongs : 1952-1955
6 furlongs : 1901-1910, 1913-1945, 1962-1993, 2005
6.5 furlongs : 1994-2003, 2006-present
This race was at Belmont Park in 1943, 1944, and 1945; and at Jamaica Racetrack in 1953 and 1954. It was not run in 1911 and 1912; from 1946 to 1952, from 1956 to 1961 and in 2004.
Speed record: (at current distance of 6.5 furlongs) 1:15.16 - You (2001)
Most wins by a jockey: 4 - Jorge Velasquez (1980, 1981, 1983, 1985)
Most wins by an owner: 3 - Harry Payne Whitney (1908, 1917, 1920) 3 -
Edward R. Bradley (1934, 1935, 1944)
I’ve read other articles about Mr. Edward R. Bradley and thought his history rather compelling. For those interested I have added additional history about Colonel Bradley.
In 1898 Edward Bradley purchased his first race horse which quickly led to the acquisition of others and in 1906 he bought Ash Grove Stock Farm, a 400-acre property near Lexington, Kentucky which he renamed Idle Hour Stock Farm. Acquiring additional land, the expanded 1,000 acre farm became the leading Thoroughbred breeding operation in the American South and added greatly to the rise of Kentucky as the most important horse breeding state in America and the
Kentucky Derby as the country's premier race.
At Idle Hour Stock farm, Bradley built first class stables and breeding and training facilities. The Colonial style architecture of its barns featured vita glass windows, designed to be transparent to ultraviolet rays of the spectrum. Bradley also established an equine cemetery where horses each received a marble headstone. A constant innovator, Bradley introduced the fibre skullcap worn by jockeys and as a racetrack owner made improvements to the starting gates.
All of his horses were given a name that began with the Bradley "B". His stallion Black Toney, purchased from James R. Keene in 1912, became the farm's first important sire. In December 1930, Bradley purchased the French mare La Troienne, who had been consigned by owner Marcel Boussac to the Newmarket, England Sales. La Troienne became one of the most influential mares to be imported into the U.S. in the 20th century.
Over the years, Bradley's horses were conditioned for racing by several trainers such as Willie Knapp and Edward Haughton, but William J. "Bill" Hurley and future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer Herbert J. Thompson met with the most success.
Bill Hurley trained Kalitan, who won the 1917 Preakness Stakes, and Bagenbaggage, who won the 1926 Latonia and Louisiana Derbys and was second to Bradley's own Bubbling Over in the Kentucky Derby. Hurley won the 1935 Florida Derby, Coaching Club American Oaks and American Derby with the great filly and 1991 Racing Hall of Fame inductee Black Helen. Another of Bill Hurley's important Hall of Fame horses was Bimelech, who earned U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt and 3-Year-Old honors in 1939 and 1940 respectively, and just missed winning the U.S. Triple Crown when he finished second in the 1940 Kentucky Derby, then won both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes.
Known as "Derby Dick", Herbert Thompson trained Bradley horses that won numerous important stakes race including
four Kentucky Derbys, two of which were the first ever back-to-back wins by a trainer or by an owner. Thompson won one of the Derbys with Burgoo King in 1932, who also won that year's Preakness Stakes. The most important horse Thompson trained for Edward Bradley was Blue Larkspur. The colt won the 1929 Belmont Stakes and was voted United States Horse of the Year honors and in 1930, U.S. Champion Older Male Horse.
Edward Bradley's wins in the American Classic Races were as follows:
Kentucky Derby
1921 - Behave Yourself
1926 - Bubbling Over
1932 - Burgoo King
1933 - Brokers Tip
Preakness Stakes
1917 - Kalitan
1932 - Burgoo King
1940 - Bimelech
Belmont Stakes
1929 - Blue Larkspur
1940 - Bimelech
For a time Edward Bradley served as president of the Thoroughbred Horse Association of the United States and in recognition of his substantial contribution to the prosperity of the State of Kentucky, he was honored with a Kentucky Colonel title by the Governor.
Nice history.
(Wikipedia)
On to the race!
Mr. Pletcher looks like he has a lock on this one with Stonerstreet Stable’s
Kauai Katie. The 490k purchase ran lights out first time; shows a substantial pace advantage getting the 5fl in 57.1, no of the others is even close – but she only shows one work on the tr.t. Anna Rose is up. Will Anna Rose win the Adirondack and the Saratoga Special stamping herself as the first woman to win both? Nice.
Sweet Shirley Mae and
Fully Living both came up empty in their last;
Cayllano looks to be a nice filly, but appears short on class coming out of Delaware;
Vitameta and
Salamera, both shipping in from Calder look good,
Salamera the better of the two, but both hardly look like a match for
Kauai Katie. Now
Kauai Katie and
Executiveprivilege that will be a hoss' race come the Breeders' Cup!
Kauai Katie
Past performances for the Adirondack Stakes:
http://horseracing.about.com/od/racedayinfo/a/aafree-pps.htm
Bloodhorse article Adirondack Stakes:
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/71942/pletcher-holds-strong-hand-in-adirondack-saratoga-special
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