Hard-knocking Gold Fever finished his 3-year-old campaign in 1996 by taking the last NYRA Mile Handicap (G1) before the race was renamed to honor Cigar. The homebred for Cynthia Phipps, who’d owned his family for generations, had previously won the Riva Ridge (G3) and Discovery (G3) for Shug McGaughey.
$150,000.00 6 Furlongs (Dirt) Grade:
Year
Horse
Age
Weight
Time
Owner
Trainer
Jockey
Value
2024
Doncho
3
118
1:09.77
JAL Racing
Michelle Lovell
Jaime A. Torres
$82,500
2023
Drew's Gold
3
122
1:09.36
Chapman, James K. and Tsujimoto, Stuart
James Chapman
Jose Gomez
$82,500
2022
Senbei
3
122
1:10.58
Reeves Thoroughbred Racing and Bilinski, Darlene
Christophe Clement
Manuel Franco
100,000
2021
Beren
3
118
1:11.25
Quick, Susan C. and Feifarek, Christopher J.
Robert E. Reid, Jr.
Manuel Franco
$55,000
2020
Liam's Pride
3/C
118
1:10.70
Mansor, Tom, Pushor, Richard J., Roy, Robert G., Calvert, D. Chadwick and Caroom
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