The Firecracker Handicap is an AmericanThoroughbred horse race run annually on the turf course at Churchill Downs. Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide Sport and Industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred Horses It is governed by different national Grass is the common word that generally describes Monocotyledonous green Plants The family Gramineae ( Poaceae) are the "true grasses" and include History The track is named for John and Henry Churchill who leased 80 acres (320000 m² of land to their nephew Colonel Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr The Grade II event is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race one mile and currently offers a purse of $232,000. A graded stakes race is a term applied by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to a Thoroughbred horse race in
Winners of the Firecracker Breeders' Cup Handicap since 2000
| Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Time |
| 2007 | Remarkable News | 5 | Ramon Dominguez | Angel Penna, Jr. Ramon A Dominguez (born November 24, 1976 in Caracas Venezuela) is a Jockey competing in Thoroughbred horse racing in the United | Holly Rincon | 1:34. 74 |
| 2006 | Miesque's Approval | 7 | Eddie Castro | Marty Wolfson | Charlotte Weber | 1:34. Eddie Castro (born April 10, 1985) is a Panamanian-born Jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. 52 |
| 2005 | Kitten's Joy | 4 | Edgar Prado | Dale L. Romans | Ken & Sarah Ramsey | 1:35. Kitten's Joy (foaled May 8 2001 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse by the Sadler's Wells stallion El Prado Edgar S Prado (born June 12, 1967 in Lima, Peru) is a US Racing Hall of Fame Jockey in Thoroughbred Dale L Romans (born August 14, 1966 in Louisville Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. 25 |
| 2004 | Quantum Merit | 5 | Shane Sellers | Del Carroll, Jr. Shane Jude Sellers (born September 24, 1966 in Erath Louisiana) is a retired American Thoroughbred Horse racing Jockey | Very Un Stable | 1:34. 15 |
| 2003 | Tap The Admiral | 5 | John McKee | Del Carroll, Jr. John McKee (1771 &ndash August 12, 1832) was an American Politician who served as the first Representative of Alabama 's | Stanley Ettinger | 1:35. 48 |
| 2002 | Good Journey | 6 | Pat Day | Wallace Dollase | Flaxman Holdings | 1:34. For Melvin "Pat" Day the New Zealand artist see Melvin Day Patrick Alan "Pat" Day (born October 13, Stavros Spyros Niarchos ( 3 July 1909 &ndash 16 April 1996) was a Billionaire Greek shipping 83 |
| 2001 | Irish Prize | 5 | Gary Stevens | Neil Drysdale | Sheikh Mohammed | 1:34. Michael Gary Stevens (born in Barrow-in-Furness, England, 27 March 1963) is a retired English footballer who shot to fame Neil D Drysdale (born 11 December 1947, Haslemere, Surrey, England) is an American based Thoroughbred Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum ( Arabic محمد بن راشد المكتوم) also Sheikh Mohammed ( Honourific) (born July 22, 68 |
| 2000 | Conserve | 4 | Shane Sellers | Frank L. Shane Jude Sellers (born September 24, 1966 in Erath Louisiana) is a retired American Thoroughbred Horse racing Jockey Brothers | Claiborne Farm | 1:35. Claiborne Farm is located just outside Paris Kentucky, USA, and is one of the most famous Thoroughbred horse farms in the United states 12 |
Earlier winners
- 1999 - Joe Who
- 1998 - Claires Honor
- 1997 - Soviet Line
- 1996 - Rare Reason
- 1995 - Jaggery John
- 1994 - First And Only
- 1993 - Cleone
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