Lone Star Park Handicap

Lone Star Park Handicap

Grade III race
Location	Lone Star Park Grand Prairie, Texas, United States
Inaugurated	1997
Race type	Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website	www.lonestarpark.com
Race information
Distance	11/16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
Track	Dirt, left-handed
Qualification	Three-years-old & up
Weight	Assigned
Purse	$400,000

The Lone Star Park Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the last week of May at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas. A Grade III event open to horses age three and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of 1¹/16 miles (8.5 furlongs).

The Lone Star Park Handicap was first run as a Grade III event in 2000. In 2001, Dixie Dot Com became the only horse to win in the same year the Lone Star Park Handicap and the Texas Mile Stakes, known as "The Texas Two Step."

In 2010, Rosie Napravnik became the first female rider to win a graded stakes race in Lone Star Park history.

Records

Speed record:

• 1:40.53 - Dixie Dot Com (2001) (stakes and track record)

Most wins:

• 2 - Mocha Express (1998, 1999)

Most wins by a jockey:

• 2 - Marlon St. Julien (1998, 1999)
• 2 - David Flores (2000, 2001)
• 2 - Garrett Gomez (2007, 2008)

Most wins by a trainer:

• 2 - Tim Harder (1998, 1999)
• 2 - Bob Baffert (2002, 2007)

Most wins by an owner:

• 2 - Stronach Stable (2000, 2008)
• 2 - Stonerside Stable (2002, 2007)

Winners

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2012	Nates Mineshaft	4	Donald Edward Simington	Wesley E. Hawley	Orth/Hawley	1:42.91
2011	Awesome Gem	8	Robby Albarado	Craig Dollase	West Point Thoroughbreds	1:43.48
2010	Redding Colliery	4	Rosie Napravnik	Kiaran McLaughlin	Mrs. Fitriani Hay.	1:42.13
2009	It's a Bird	6	Julien Leparoux	Martin D. Wolfson	Edmund A. Gann	1:41.83
2008	Giant Gizmo	4	Garrett Gomez	Robert J. Frankel	Stronach Stable	1:43.01
2007	Bob and John	4	Garrett Gomez	Bob Baffert	Stonerside Stable	1:45.02
2006	Magnum	5	Pat Valenzuela	Darrell Vienna	Herrick Racing LLC	1:42.88
2005	Supah Blitz	5	Jon Court	Douglas F. O'Neill	Black Saddle Stable et al.	1:41.90
2004	Yessirgeneralsir	4	Omar Figueroa	Dallas Keen	Jim D. Jackson	1:41.29
2003	Pie N Burger	5	Jamie Theriot	Cole Norman	Kagele Bros. et al.	1:42.03
2002	Congaree	4	Pat Day	Bob Baffert	Stonerside Stable	1:42.96
2001	Dixie Dot Com	6	David Flores	William Morey, Jr.	D. & C. Chaiken/B. & R. Heller	1:40.53
2000	Luftikus	4	David Flores	Vladimir Cerin	Stronach Stable	1:40.87
1999	Mocha Express	5	Marlon St. Julien	Tim Harder	Mary Dodd/A. R. Harder	1:43.36
1998	Mocha Express	4	Marlon St. Julien	Tim Harder	A. R. Harder/Don Strate	1:42.17
1997	Connecting Terms	4	Larry Melancon	W. Elliott Walden	Prestonwood Farm	1:41.97

References

• The 2008 Lone Star Park Handicap at the NTRA