• The Wood Memorial Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held annually in April at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens...
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  • Thoroughbred racehorse who won three of his six races, including the Wood Memorial Stakes, then a Grade I event. He was an immediate success after retiring...
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  • and Amberoid, who won the 1966 Wood Memorial Stakes and gave Laurin his first of six American Classics, the Belmont Stakes. His son, Roger Laurin, worked...
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    In early 2000, Fusaichi Pegasus won the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes and Wood Memorial Stakes. Fusaichi Pegasus won the 2000 Kentucky Derby in a time of...
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    only 11. Arcaro also won the Suburban Handicap eight times, the Wood Memorial Stakes nine times and the Jockey Club Gold Cup ten times. In international...
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    came home in 22 4/5 for the final quarter. His next start was the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct on April 9. Running 9 furlongs for the first time in...
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    Memorial Day, 1945. It was home to ongoing races such as the Prioress Stakes, Frizette Stakes, Paumonok Handicap, Excelsior Handicap, Wood Memorial Stakes...
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    2006, during an eleven-race program at Aqueduct that included the Wood Memorial Stakes, a rare event happened when dead heats for each of the three "money"...
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    is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and the winner of the 2005 Wood Memorial Stakes. He was owned by the Kinsman Stable, the nom de course of George...
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  • Foolish Pleasure (category American Grade 1 Stakes winners)
    a two-year-old. In 1975, at age three, he won the Flamingo Stakes and Wood Memorial Stakes before contesting the Kentucky Derby. Ridden by Jacinto Vásquez...
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  • He set earnings records, Grade I stakes victory records, and many others. Frankel also won the Pacific Classic Stakes a record six times, including four...
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  • Gallant Fox (category Preakness Stakes winners)
    brother Fighting Fox, whose wins included the Grand Union Hotel Stakes, the Wood Memorial Stakes, and the Carter Handicap. Owned by the Belair Stud of Collington...
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  • win the California Derby, while Sham went to the Wood Memorial Stakes in New York. The Wood Memorial, contested April 21 as the final New York prep to...
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  • first, second, or third place and the number of starters in the Wood Memorial Stakes, an American Grade 1 race for three-year-olds at 1-1/8 miles on dirt...
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  • with which he won the 1990 Grade 1 Wood Memorial Stakes and earned a second-place finish in that year's Belmont Stakes. Nick Zito went on to win the Preakness...
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  • he trained three Kentucky Derby winners, four Preakness Stakes winners, and six Belmont Stakes winners. Included were two U.S. Triple Crown champions:...
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  • Maker (2003) – Florida Derby, Wood Memorial Stakes and Belmont Stakes Heat Haze (2003) – Beverly D Stakes and Matriarch Stakes Nebraska Tornado (2003) – Prix...
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  • Terms Stakes typically races next in either the Federico Tesio Stakes (Preakness Trial) at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore or the Wood Memorial Stakes at...
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  • bred and/or raced more than thirty-five stakes winners. In 2005 their colt Bellamy Road won the Wood Memorial Stakes and was then sent off as the betting...
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    favorites for the Kentucky Derby. On April 3, 2010, Eskendereya won the Wood Memorial Stakes by 9¾ lengths, essentially repeating his dominating performance in...
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  • D.C. International Stakes, the 1994 Pimlico Special and Canadian International Stakes, as well as the 1998 Wood Memorial Stakes. His best result in two...
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  • is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and the winner of the 1982 Wood Memorial Stakes. Air Forbes Won's first race was on March 4, 1982 at the Aqueduct...
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    victory in the Champagne Stakes. The following year, he and Seattle Slew won the Wood Memorial Stakes and the Flamingo Stakes en route to winning the Kentucky...
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    Ron Turcotte (category Avelino Gomez Memorial Award winners)
    gained prominence with his victory aboard Tom Rolfe in the 1965 Preakness Stakes. Turcotte soon started working with Canadian trainer Lucien Laurin at the...
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  • there were doubts about him following a third-place finish at the Wood Memorial Stakes two weeks prior to the Derby. In the wake of Secretariat's loss,...
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  • Bold Forbes (category Belmont Stakes winners)
    Special Stakes and the Tremont Stakes. As a three-year-old Bold Forbes was trained by Laz Barrera. He won the San Jacinto Stakes, Wood Memorial Stakes and...
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  • 1934, Bellizzi rode Brookmeade's colt High Quest to victory in the Wood Memorial Stakes, an important prep race for the Kentucky Derby. However, trainer...
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    win in the Wood Memorial Stakes. He finished fourth in both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes before winning the Jim Dandy Stakes. Wicked Strong...
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    Kentucky Derby aboard Fusaichi Pegasus. The two combined to take the Wood Memorial Stakes and Jerome Handicap. "Probably the most talented horse I rode (was)...
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    Jockey Club Stakes and Wood Memorial Stakes winner My Sweet Addiction (2010) — Vanity Stakes winner Strong Mandate (2011) — Hopeful Stakes winner Dynamic...
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