Dancing Count Stakes

Dancing Count Stakes
Ungraded Stakes race
Dancing Count Stakes
Location Laurel Park Racecourse, Maryland
Laurel, Maryland, United States
Inaugurated 1985
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.Laurelpark.com
Race information
Distance 6 furlongs
Track Dirt, left-handed
Qualification Three-years-old, open
Weight Assigned
Purse $75,000

The Dancing Count Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held in January at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. The Dancing Count, is open to three-year-olds willing to race six furlongs on the dirt. It was the 26th running of the stakes race in 2010.

An ungraded stakes, it offers a purse of $75,000. The Dancing Count is also one of Maryland's triple crown prep races. The winner of this race typically moves on to compete in the Private Terms Stakes held in March at Laurel Park Racecourse as well, but winners have also ventured off to New York and Kentucky for their next races to see if they are worthy of continuing on the Triple Crown Trail.[1]

The race itself was named in honor of one of Maryland's top stallions, Northern Dancer's son Dancing Count, who sired more than 20 graded stakes winners. His progeny include three-time Maryland Million Ladies winner Countus In, another daughter Count On Bonnie was the dam of eclipse champion Hansel (who went on to win the 1991 Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. Dancing Count stood his final years at Shamrock Farm and died in April 1994 at age 26.

Contents

Records

Speed record:

  • 6 furlongs - 1:09.79 - Russell Road (2009)
  • 7 furlongs - 1:23.20 - Can't Be Denied (1994)

Most wins by an owner:

  • no owner has the Dancing Count Stakes more than once

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

  • 2 - Gary Capuano (2006 & 2011)
  • 2 - Dale Capuano (1998 & 2002)
  • 2 - Carlos A. Garcia (1993 & 1994)

Winners of the Dancing Count Stakes since 1985

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Distance Time Purse
2011 Wicked Thunder 3 Josean Ramirez Gary Capuano Gary Capuano & Paul Fowler 6 fur. 1:11.76 $75,000
2010 No Race * - No Race * No Race * No Race * no race no race no race
2009 Russell Road 3 Travis Dunkelberger James W. Casey Mark Russell 6 fur. 1:09.79 $75,000
2008 Vanderkaay 3 Rosie Napravnik A. Ferris Allen Bowman Thoroughbreds, LLC 6 fur. 1:10.60 $60,000
2007 Heart Throbbin' 3 Ryan Fogelsonger King T. Leatherbury One and Won Stable 5.5 fur. 1:06.20 $75,000
2006 Great Seneca 3 Heracio A. Karamanos Gary Capuano Carey K. Miller 5.5 fur. 1:05.20 $75,000
2005 More Smoke 3 Mario Pino John C. Zimmerman Thomas McClay & Harry Nye 6 fur. 1:11.80 $50,000
2004 Kiowa Prince 3 Abe Castellano, Jr. Phil Schoenthal Edward M. Warner 6 fur. 1:11.40 $50,000
2003 Philadelphia Jim 3 Ramon Dominguez John J. Robb Anastasia Yarov 6 fur. 1:10.40 $50,000
2002 President Butler 3 Travis Dunkelburger Dale Capuano President Butler 6 fur. 1:12.20 $55,000
2001 Sea of Green 3 Ramon Dominguez Janice Gerace Janice Gerace 6 fur. 1:11.60 $55,000
2000 Gangsta Rap 3 Christopher Decarlo Joseph Aquilino Jim Knee 6 fur. 1:10.80 $55,000
1999 Mr. Katowice 3 Edgar Prado Robert W. Camac Russell Racing Stables 6 fur. 1:10.80 $55,000
1998 Just Call Me Carl 3 Edgar Prado Dale Capuano Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. McNeely 6 fur. 1:10.40 $55,000
1997 Balanced Budget 3 Mario Pino Edmund D. Gaudet Eddie Gaudet 6 fur. 1:11.40 $55,000
1996 In Contention 3 Anthony Black Cythia G. Reece Harry and Tom Meyerhof 7 fur. 1:24.00 $30,000
1995 Onto Luck 3 Rick Wilson Edward T. Allard Not Found 7 fur. 1:24.20 $55,000
1994 Can't Be Denied 3 Rick Wilson Carlos A. Garcia Dale Lucas 7 fur. 1:23.20 $55,000
1993 Wolf Prince 3 Edgar Prado Carlos A. Garcia Jack and Art Preston 7 fur. 1:24.60 $40,000
1992 Noholmes Barred 3 Larry Saumell Richard E. Dutrow, Sr. Eugene Ford 6 fur. 1:11.00 $40,000
1991 Colonel Hill 3 Edgar Prado Howard E. Wolfendale Vic DiVivo 6 fur. 1:10.60 $40,000
1990 Wooden Injun 3 Marco Castaneda Carlos Garcia David Hayden 6 fur. 1:11.00 $40,000
1989 Diamond Donnie 3 Greg Hutton Horace C. Parker 6 fur. 1:10.40 $55,000
1988 Finder's Choice 3 Kent Desormeaux 6 fur. 1:11.00 $50,000
1987 Baldski's Choice 3 Ben Feliciano Bernie P. Bond Sam Pistorio 6 fur. 1:13.20 $50,000
1986 Mike Cantwell 3 Allen Stacy 6 fur. 1:11.80 $50,000
1985 Along Came Jones 3 Greg Hutton 1 mile 1:38.00 $30,000

* On January, 30, 2010 Racing Secretary Georganne Hale reported that the entire Saturday card at Laurel Park would be canceled due to 6.5" of snow and ice. Later that afternoon she reported that the running of the Dancing Count Stakes had been cancelled for this year and would not be carded anytime in 2010.

See also

References

  1. ^ 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 88 on March 3, 2007.

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