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.

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

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

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Speed record:

  • 1+116 miles - 1:45.40 - Katie's Love (2006)

Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 - Luis Garcia (2006, 2008 & 2009)

Most wins by a trainer:

  • No trainer has won the Shine Again Stakes more than once

Winners of the Shine Again Stakes

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Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Distance
Time Purse
2021 Chub Wagon 4 Jomar Torres Guadalupe Preciado Daniel Lopez & George Chestnut 6 fur. 1:10.21 $100,000
2020 No Race - No Race No Race No Race no race 0:00.00 no race
2019 Our Super Freak 3 Jose Ortiz Cherie DeVaux LBD Stable LLC & David Ingordo 7 fur. 1:22.98 $100,000
2018 Cairenn 4 John R. Velazquez H. Graham Motion WSS Racing, LLC 7 fur. 1:22.11 $100,000
2017 Line of Best Fit 7 Kevin Gomez Claudio A. Gonzalez Sheffield Stable LLC 1 mile 1:23.90 $50,000
2016 Sothern Girl 3 Abel Castellano J. Larry Jones Fox Hill Farms Inc. 1 mile 1:24.11 $50,000
2015 No Race - No Race No Race No Race no race 0:00.00 no race
2014 No Race - No Race No Race No Race no race 0:00.00 no race
2013 Daydreamin Gracie 5 Garry Cruise Dane Kobiskie PTK LLC 1-1/16 1:46.30 $50,000
2012 Sneaky Lil 6 Abel Castellano Jamie Ness Richard Blue, Jr. 1-1/16 1:47.00 $50,000
2011 D Day 6 Jeremy Rose Samuel F. Cronk Samuel F. Cronk’s 1-1/16 1:47.08 $50,000
2010 American Victory 4 Travis Dunkelberger Rodney Jenkins Richard Golden 1-1/16 1:47.51 $50,000
2009 Amie’s Legend 4 Luis Garcia H. Graham Motion Two Legends Farm 1-1/16 1:45.20 $50,000
2008 Come Fly Away 4 Luis Garcia Michael Hushion Bill & Vicki Poston 1-1/16 1:44.75 $50,000
2007 Katie's Love 5 Horacio Karamanos Nancy H. Alberts Lewis Racing Stable 1-1/16 1:45.51 $50,000
2006 Dynamic Deputy 4 Luis Garcia Richard W. Small Fitzhugh, LLC 1-1/16 1:45.74 $50,000

See also

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References

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