Michigan Mile And One-Eighth Handicap
Discontinued stakes race
LocationDetroit Race Course
Livonia, Michigan, United States
Inaugurated1950
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance1+18 miles (9 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds & up
WeightAssigned

The Michigan Mile And One-Eighth Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the now defunct Detroit Race Course in Livonia, Michigan. A one time Grade II event raced on dirt, it was open to horses age three and older.

First run in 1950, its popularity saw the 1958 edition of the Michigan Mile And One-Eighth Handicap draw the largest crowd in the racetrack's history.[1] That 1958 race was won by E. P. Taylor's Nearctic, a future Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee and sire of the supersire Northern Dancer.[2]

In 1975, trainer S Kaye Bell became the first female in the United States to condition the winner of a $100,000 stakes race.[3]

Upsets include Stanislas defeating Tom Rolfe in 1966 and Nodouble in 1968 beating the reigning American Horse of the Year, Damascus.[4]

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:36.20 @ 1 mile: Nearctic (1958)
  • 1:40.60 @ 1-1/6 miles: Crimson Satan (1963)
  • 1:47.40 @ 1-1/8 miles: My Night Out (1957), Calandrito (1969), Fast Hilarious (1970)

Most wins:

  • No horse won this race more than once

Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 - Earl J. Knapp (1957, 1961, 1966)
  • 3 - Carlos H. Marquez Sr. (1967, 1969, 1970)

Most wins by a trainer:

Most wins by an owner:

  • No owner won this race more than once

Winners

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Dist.
(miles)
Time
Gr.
1993 Dignitas 4 Larry Melancon George R. Arnold II John H. Peace 1-1/8 m 1:48.80 G2
1992 Classic Seven 4 Fabio A. Arguello Jr. Niall M. O'Callaghan Thomas M. Cairns & M/M John O. Berry 1-1/8 m 1:49.60 G2
1991 Black Tie Affair 5 Pat Day Ernie T. Poulos Jeffrey Sullivan 1-1/8 m 1:49.80 G2
1990 Beau Genius 5 Ricardo D. Lopez Gerald S. Bennett Joseph Shiewitz & Dr. Brian Davidson 1-1/8 m 1:48.80 G2
1989 Present Value 5 Frank Olivares Jerry M. Fanning J. M. Fanning, Richard Fontana, Jay Bligh, Gary Potter 1-1/8 m 1:49.20 G2
1988 Lost Code 4 Craig Perret L. William Donovan Wendover Stable (Donald Levinson) 1-1/8 m 1:50.80 G2
1987 Waquoit 4 Chris McCarron Guido Federico Joseph Federico 1-1/8 m 1:50.00 G2
1986 Ends Well 5 Randy Romero Robert J. Reinacher Jr. Greentree Stable 1-1/8 m 1:49.40 G2
1985 Badwagon Harry 6 Ricardo D. Lopez Reid T. Gross Kerry Nagle 1-1/8 m 1:49.40 G2
1984 Timeless Native 4 Don Brumfield Grover G. Delp Hawksworth Farm 1-1/8 m 1:49.60 G2
1983 Thumbsucker 4 Anthony Russo Jr. John Drumwright Gat Stable 1-1/8 m 1:48.80 G2
1982 Vodika Collins 4 Joe Judice Forrest H. Kaelin Milbert B. Collins 1-1/8 m 1:50.40 G2
1981 Fio Rito 6 Leslie Hulet Michael S. Ferraro Raymond Lecesse 1-1/8 m 1:50.20 G2
1980 Glorious Song 4 John LeBlanc Gerry Belanger Frank Stronach 1-1/8 m 1:50.00 G2
1979 Sensitive Prince 4 Jacinto Vasquez H. Allen Jerkens Top the Marc Stable (Joseph Taub) 1-1/8 m 1:52.60 G2
1978 A Letter to Harry 4 Eddie Delahoussaye John Oxley Estate of Raymond F. Salmen 1-1/8 m 1:52.60 G2
1977 My Juliet 5 Anthony S. Black Eugene H. Euster George Weasel Jr. 1-1/8 m 1:48.40 G2
1976 Sharp Gary 5 Sam Maple James D. Price Edward R. Scharps 1-1/8 m 1:50.80 G2
1975 Mr. Lucky Phoenix 5 Bryan Fann Kaye Bell Albert Levinson 1-1/8 m 1:47.60 G2
1974 Tom Tulle 4 Craig Perret Jere R. Smith Sr. W. Archie Lofton 1-1/8 m 1:50.40 G2
1973 Golden Don 3 Mike Manganello Oscar Dishman Jr. Archie Donaldson 1-1/8 m 1:49.60 G2
1972-1 King's Bishop 3 Eddie Maple Thomas J. Kelly Craig F. Cullinan Jr. 1-1/8 m 1:49.20
1972-2 Favorecidian 5 Angel Cordero Jr. Sidney Watters Jr. Hickory Tree Stable 1-1/8 m 1:48.80
1971 Native Royalty 4 Ronald J. Campbell John T. Davis Harbor View Farm 1-1/8 m 1:48.00
1970 Fast Hilarious 4 Carlos H. Marquez Sr. Joseph M. Bollero Dorothy Comiskey Rigney 1-1/8 m 1:47.40
1969 Calandrito 4 Carlos H. Marquez Sr. James F. Plett Melvin T. Berry 1-1/8 m 1:47.40
1968 Nodouble 3 Martinez Heath J. Bert Sonnier Verna Lea Stable (Gene Goff) 1-1/8 m 1:49.00
1967 Estreno 6 Carlos H. Marquez Sr. Dave Sazer Robert Ballis 1-1/8 m 1:48.40
1966 Stanislas 4 Earl J. Knapp Mildred Kerr Mildred Kerr 1-1/8 m 1:49.00
1965 Old Hat 6 Robert Gallimore Charles C. Norman Stanley Conrad 1-1/8 m 1:49.40
1964 Going Abroad

Tibaldo (DH)

4
Ray Broussard

Danny Gargan

Joseph H. Pierce Jr.

Thomas J. Kelly

Seltzer Bros. (Edward & Harry)

Esther D. du Pont

1-1/8 m 1:49.00
1963 Crimson Satan 4 Herberto Hinojosa Charles Kerr Crimson King Farm (Peter W. Salmen Sr.) 1-1/16 m 1:40.60
1962 Beau Prince 4 Steve Brooks Jimmy Jones Calumet Farm 1-1/16 m 1:43.20
1961 American Comet 5 Earl J. Knapp Marty L. Fallon C. W. Smith Ent., Inc. 1-1/16 m 1:43.00
1960 Little Fitz 5 William A. Peake Robert C. Steele J. C. Hauer Stable Inc. (John C. Hauer) 1-1/16 m 1:42.20
1959 Total Traffic 5 Herberto Hinojosa Charles Kerr G and K Stable (Ralph Green & Charles Kerr) 1-1/16 m 1:41.80
1958 Nearctic 4 Benny Sorenson Gordon J. McCann Windfields Farm 1 m 1:36.20
1957 My Night Out 4 Earl J. Knapp Ray Grundy Darrell H. Wells 1-1/16 m 1:47.40
1956 Nonnie Jo 5 Lois C. Cook Vester R. Wright James L. Paddock & Perne L. Grissom 1 m 1:36.40
1955 Greatest 5 Tommy Barrow Patrick B. Devereux Thomas F. Devereux 1 m 1:36.80
1954 Spur On 6 Paul J. Bailey Elmer Kalensky Bernard W. Landy 1 m 1:37.20
1953 Second Avenue 6 Carroll Bierman Alexis G. "Lex" Wilson Theodore DeLong Buhl 1 m 1:37.80
1952 Bully Boy 5 Sherman Armstrong Hubert H. "Pete" Battle Mrs. E. Dale Shaffer 1 m 1:40.20
1951 King's Hope 3 Lois C. Cook Frederick Sharpe Mrs. Frederick Sharpe 1 m 1:37.60
1950 Fancy Flyer 5 Manuel N. Gonzalez Kenny Noe Jr. Carl Graham 1 m 1:38.00

References

  1. "Michigan Mile Popular". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1959-05-11. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  2. "Nearctic Captures Rich Michigan Mile". New York Times, Section Sports, page 5. 1958-07-20. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  3. "This Day In History". NTRA. 1975-06-21. Retrieved 2021-01-21.
  4. "Registered & Protected by MarkMonitor".
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