The Junior Champion Stakes was a

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for two-year-olds of either sex run from 1884 through 1893 at the

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. Run on dirt, it was contested over a distance of six

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Historical notes

The filly

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beat eleven other runners to win the 1884 inaugural running of the Junior Champion Stakes for prominent owner Pierre Lorillard. In a review of American Thoroughbred racing history by '' Thoroughbred Heritage'', they selected Wanda as both the 1884 Champion Two-Year-Old Filly and 1885 Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. Ban Fox, the 1885 winner of the Junior Champion Stakes, would also earn American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt recognition by ''Thoroughbred Heritage''. In 1886 the race was won by the outstanding colt Tremont who, in his only year of racing, would win all sixteen of his starts. In '' The Blood-Horse magazine's'' review of American Thoroughbred racing history, Tremont was chosen

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.''The Bloodhorse.com'' Champion's history charts
The

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at New York's

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is named in his honor. Similarly, ''The Blood-Horse'' magazine selected Proctor Knott as their 1888 Champion. Proctor Knott also won the most important race in the United States at the time, the Futurity Stakes. Strathmeath, the 1890 winner owned and trained by Green B. Morris, won a number of important stakes in his career including the high profile

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in 1891. In the 1893 final running, Senator Grady upset Henry of Navarre who in 1894 and 1895 would earn

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honors. Racing ended when the track did not open for the 1894 racing season due to a ban on

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enacted by the

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. In May 1894, the Township Committee at Eatontown, New Jersey ordered the seizure and sale of the Monmouth Park Association's

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and other property for the payment of back taxes and on May 7 was sold at a public auction.

End of a race and of a racetrack

Racing ended when the track did not open for the 1894 racing season due to a ban on

enacted by the

. In May 1894, the Township Committee at Eatontown, New Jersey ordered the seizure and sale of the Monmouth Park Association's

and other property for the payment of back taxes and on May 7 was sold at a public auction.

Another Monmouth Park Junior Champion Stakes

From 1988 through 2011 the Monmouth Park Racetrack at

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hosted a Junior Champion Stakes race. This one would be run on turf for two-year-old fillies at a distance of one mile.

Records

Speed record: * 1:12.50 @ 6 furlongs: Don Alonzo (1892) Most wins by a

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: * 3 - Shelby Barnes (1888, 1889, 1891) Most wins by a trainer: * 3 - Matthew Byrnes (1884, 1890, 1891) Most wins by an owner: * 2 - Dwyer Brothers Stable (1886, 1887) * 2 -

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(1891, 1893)

Winners

References

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