The Ohio Derby is an American

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held annually in mid-to-late June at Thistledown in

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. The Grade III stakes for three-year-olds is run on dirt over a distance of 1 miles. The race currently offers a purse of $500,000. Inaugurated in 1876 at Chester Park, a racetrack on Spring Grove Avenue in

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, the race was canceled after the 1883 running. It was revived in 1924 by the Maple Heights Park racetrack with future Hall of Fame inductee and that year's Kentucky Derby winner Black Gold claiming victory. From 1928 thru 1932 the Ohio Derby was hosted by the now defunct Bainbridge Park Race Track in Bainbridge Township, Ohio, built in 1927 by John King and Homer Kline. Pete D. Anderson, trainer of 2007 winner Delightful Kiss, won this race in 1964 as the jockey on National. The Ohio Derby was not scheduled to be run in 2009 in order to maintain reasonable purses for area horsemen. However, an announcement was made in August that the Grade II race would run on October 3, 2009 on the Best of Ohio card. This race was downgraded from a graded stakes to a listed stakes in 2014. The race regained graded status in 2017 by The American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association. As of 2016, this race is run at 1 and 1/8th miles.

Records

Speed record: * 1:47.86 @ 1-1/8 miles: Skip Away (1996) * 1:42.80 @ 1-1/16 miles: Gushing Wind (1962) * 2:40.00 @ 1-1/2 miles: McWhirter (1877) Most wins by a jockey: * 2 - Garth Patterson (1976, 1984) * 2 -

Pat Day Patrick Alan "Pat" Day (born October 13, 1953, in Brush, Colorado) is a retired American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991 a ...

(1980, 1995) * 2 -

Jacinto Vásquez Jacinto Vásquez (born January 4, 1944 in Panama) is a retired Hall of Fame thoroughbred jockey. He rode two Kentucky Derby winners, Foolish Pleasure in 1975 and the filly Genuine Risk in 1980. He was also the regular jockey for the champion fi ...

(1982, 1990) * 2 - Willie Martinez (1994, 2004) * 2 - Shane Sellers (1998, 2003) * 2 -

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(1999, 2000) Most wins by a trainer: * 2 - Edward D. Brown (1876, 1881) * 2 - Clarence S. Buxton (1931, 1932) * 2 - Woody Stephens (1955, 1979) * 2 - Richard W. Small (1986, 1999) * 2 -

Thomas M. Amoss Thomas M. "Tom" Amoss (born November 17, 1961, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a trainer of Thoroughbred race horses. A graduate of Louisiana State University with a degree in marketing and a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity, Tom Amoss had worked wit ...

(2016, 2020) * 2 -

Brad H. Cox Brad H. Cox (born March 3, 1980) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer whose most notable horses include multiple Eclipse Award winner Monomoy Girl, Knicks Go, Covfefe, Mandaloun, and Essential Quality. He had four winners at the 2020 Breeders' C ...

(2019, 2022) Most wins by an owner: * 2 - Jerome H. Louchheim (1931, 1932) * 2 - Robert E. Meyerhoff (1986, 1999)

Winners

References

External links

2007 Ohio Derby at Thistledown racecorse

The 2009 Ohio Derby article at ''Thoroughbred Times''
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