Run as The Edgemere Handicap until 1981. The Red Smith Handicap honors the late sportswriter Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith (1905-1982). A Pulitzer Prize winner in 1976, Smith covered sports for 55 years, most notably for The New York Herald Tribune and later The New York Times, writing a widely syndicated column for both outlets. According to his obituary published in the Times: “He preferred covering sports like baseball, football, boxing and horse playing (‘not horse racing,’ he emphasized) and disdained what he called ‘back and forth’ sports like basketball and hockey."
The Edgemere Handicap was also the name of a mile and a furlong race on the main track last run in 1957. Run at 1 1/16 miles in 1977; at 1 3/16 miles 1963-67; and at 1 ¼ miles 1972-76, and 1978-93. Run at Belmont Park 1960-62, and 1968-93. Run in two divisions in 1977, 1983, and 1986. Not run in 1979. Run on Belmont’s main track in 1984. Run on the main track at Aqueduct in 1997 and 2006.
$300,000.00 1 3/8 (Turf) Grade:II
Year
Horse
Age
Weight
Time
Owner
Trainer
Jockey
Value
2024
Integration
4
124
2:13.28
West Point Thoroughbreds and Woodford Racing, LLC
Claude R. McGaughey III
Flavien Prat
$165,000
2023
Master Piece
7
122
2:14.56
Iavarone, Michael, Iavarone, Julia C., Zoumas, Nicholas, Baccari, Dino, Argano
Richard E. Dutrow, Jr.
Jose Lezcano
$165,000
2022
Astronaut
5
122
2:14.00
John M. B. O'Connor
Thomas Albertrani
Kendrick Carmouche
$165,000
2021
Serve the King
5
124
2:16.60
Peter M. Brant
Chad C. Brown
Irad Ortiz, Jr.
$110,000
2020
North Dakota
4
124
2:16.47
Allen Stable, Inc.
Claude R. McGaughey III
Jose Lezcano
$55,000
2019
Sadler's Joy
6
124
2:15.76
Woodslane Farm
Thomas Albertrani
Javier Castellano
$110,000
2018
Village King (ARG)
4
119
1:52.95
Angels of Catalina, Inc.
Todd A. Pletcher
Javier Castellano
$110,000
2017
Spring Quality
5
117
2:17.72
Augustin Stable
Graham Motion
Edagr Prado
$120,000
2016
Bigger Picture
-
117
2:15.46
Three Diamonds Farm
Michael J. Maker
Jose Ortiz
$120,000
2015
Mr Maybe
-
115
2:17:49
Michael Dubb, Head of Plains Partners LLC and Highclere America
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