Shine Again Stakes

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Shine Again Stakes
Ungraded Stakes race
Location Pimlico Race Course,
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Inaugurated2006
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.pimlico.com
Race information
Distance1+116 miles (8.5 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds & up; fillies & mares
WeightAssigned
Purse$50,000

The Shine Again Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. Contested over a distance of one mile and one sixteenth (eight and a half furlongs) on the dirt, it is open to fillies and mares three-years-old and up that are Registered Maryland-breds.

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Run during the latter part of May during Preakness week. The race was named in honor of Shine Again, a fourth generation homebred in Allaire duPont's stable. She was brilliant over three seasons of competition in which she was named Maryland-bred horse of the Year in 2003, Maryland-bred champion older mare in three consecutive years while earning state-bred champion sprinter title in two of those years. She retired after the 2003 season as the ninth leading Maryland-bred money earner of all time, with $1,271,840. From 34 career starts, she won 14 races (eight stakes), was second 10 times (eight stakes) and third in seven others (five stakes). [1]

Shine Again was a daughter of Wild Again out of the Two Punch mare Shiner. Shine Again was under the guidance of Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkins, she won four stakes races that season including the grade one Ballerina Handicap at Saratoga Race Course plus the grade two First Flight Handicap and placed in four other graded stakes races. The very next year she returned to defend her titles in the Ballerina and the First Flight and won both, she also had five graded stakes placings including the grade one Ruffian Handicap. She just missed the three-peat in the Ballerina at age six, finishing second by a neck. In that year she won the grade two Genuine Risk Handicap while placing in five other additional graded stakes races.

Records

Speed record:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Winners of the Shine Again Stakes

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Distance
TimePurse
2021Chub Wagon4Jomar TorresGuadalupe PreciadoDaniel Lopez & George Chestnut6 fur.1:10.21$100,000
2020No Race-No RaceNo RaceNo Raceno race0:00.00no race
2019Our Super Freak3 Jose Ortiz Cherie DeVauxLBD Stable LLC & David Ingordo7 fur.1:22.98$100,000
2018Cairenn4 John R. Velazquez H. Graham Motion WSS Racing, LLC7 fur.1:22.11$100,000
2017Line of Best Fit7Kevin GomezClaudio A. GonzalezSheffield Stable LLC1 mile1:23.90$50,000
2016Sothern Girl3 Abel Castellano J. Larry Jones Fox Hill Farms Inc.1 mile1:24.11$50,000
2015No Race-No RaceNo RaceNo Raceno race0:00.00no race
2014No Race-No RaceNo RaceNo Raceno race0:00.00no race
2013Daydreamin Gracie5 Garry Cruise Dane Kobiskie PTK LLC1-1/161:46.30$50,000
2012Sneaky Lil6 Abel Castellano Jamie Ness Richard Blue, Jr.1-1/161:47.00$50,000
2011D Day6 Jeremy Rose Samuel F. Cronk Samuel F. Cronk’s1-1/161:47.08$50,000
2010American Victory4 Travis Dunkelberger Rodney Jenkins Richard Golden1-1/161:47.51$50,000
2009Amie’s Legend4Luis Garcia H. Graham Motion Two Legends Farm1-1/161:45.20$50,000
2008Come Fly Away4Luis Garcia Michael Hushion Bill & Vicki Poston1-1/161:44.75$50,000
2007Katie's Love5 Horacio Karamanos Nancy H. Alberts Lewis Racing Stable1-1/161:45.51$50,000
2006Dynamic Deputy4Luis Garcia Richard W. Small Fitzhugh, LLC1-1/161:45.74$50,000

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References

  1. 2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 270 on March 3, 2007.