{{Short description|Horse race in New York, United States}} {{Infobox horseraces | class = Discontinued stakes | horse race = Champlain Handicap | website = | image = | caption = | location = [[Saratoga Race Course]], [[Saratoga Springs, New York]],<p>[[Belmont Park]],<br /> [[Elmont, New York]]</p><p>[[Jamaica Racetrack]],<br /> [[Jamaica, New York]]<br />United States</p> | inaugurated = 1901 | race type = [[Thoroughbred]] - [[Flat racing]] | distance = 6 [[Furlong|furlongs]] (3/4 mile) | surface = Dirt | track = left-handed | qualification = Three-year-olds and up | weight = | purse = | bonuses = }}
The '''Champlain Handicap''' was an American [[Thoroughbred racing|Thoroughbred horse race]] for horses age three and older first run in 1901 at [[Saratoga Race Course]] in [[Saratoga Springs, New York]]. Placed on hiatus in 1945, it was revived in 1954 at [[Jamaica Racetrack]] as a [[Horse racing|sprint race]] restricted to [[Filly|fillies]] and [[Mare|mares]]. The race was discontinued after the 1957 running.
==Historic notes== The first running of the Champlain Handicap took place on August 27, 1901.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1910s/drf1917081201/drf1917081201_1_2 |title= Saratoga's Grand Racing (history of the Champlain Handicap) |publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1917-08-12 |accessdate=2021-06-22}}</ref>
On August 29, 1907 [[Dandelion (horse)|Dandelion]] won the Champlain Handicap for the second straight year. He would be the only horse to ever win the race more than once.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1900s/drf1907083001/drf1907083001_1_2 |title=Dandelions Champlain: Hitchcock Horse Wins This Handicap for the Second Time |publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1907-08-30 |accessdate=2021-07-04}}</ref>
In winning the 1919 edition of the Champlain Handicap, [[Willis Sharpe Kilmer|Willis Sharpe Kilmer's]] top runner [[Sun Briar]] broke Saratoga's track record for the mile and one-eighth distance on dirt with a time of 1:50 flat. In so doing, he defeated his stablemate and future [[National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] inductee, [[Exterminator (horse)|Exterminator]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1910s/drf1919081001/drf1919081001_1_4 |title= Sun Briar First in the Champlain Handicap in New Track Record Time |publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1919-08-10 |accessdate=2020-11-04}}</ref> The following year Exterminator returned to compete in the 1920 running of the Champlain only to finish second again, this time to Gnome.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1920s/drf1920081501/drf1920081501_1_3 |title=Saratoga Form Chart |publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1920-08-15 |accessdate=2021-08-12}}</ref>
The 1938 Champlain Handicap was the fifth race on the card. It was preceded by the Rockton Handicap, a race named in honor of the 1901 inaugural winner of the Champlain.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/08/17/archives/threelength-victory-gained-by-esposa-in-champlain-handicap-at.html |title=Three-Length Victory Gained by Esposa in Champlain Handicap at Saratoga |publisher= New York Times, page 16 |date=1938-08-17 |accessdate=2021-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1901/08/28/archives/racing-at-saratoga-rockton-made-all-the-running-and-won-the-stakes.html |title=Racing At Saratoga; Rockton Made All the Running and Won the Stakes.|publisher= New York Times, page 5 |date=1901-08-28 |accessdate=2021-08-07}}</ref>
Due to [[World War II]], in May, 1942 the United States government's [[Office of Price Administration]] implemented [[Rationing in the United States# Tires, gasoline, and automobiles|gasoline rationing]] on seventeen [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]] states which included New York.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/ |title=Protests Mount As Listing Begins In 'Gas' Rationing |publisher=New York Times, page 1 |date=1942-05-13 |accessdate=2021-08-09 |archive-date=2020-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506002706/https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Saratoga Springs Race Course relied upon a good attendance rate from New York city racing fans willing to make the 360 mile return trip but rationing would impact that for users of motor vehicles as well as passenger trains. As a result, the important Saratoga stakes races would be shifted to [[Belmont Park]] on densely populated [[Long Island]] in 1943 and 1944 where it was run as an event for three-year-old horses. The Champlain Handicap would never return to Saratoga.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/08/21/archives/famous-victory-captures-belmont-feature-with-favored-first-fiddle.html |title=Famous Victory Captures Belmont Feature |publisher=New York Times, Section Sports, page 8 |date=1943-08-21 |accessdate=2021-08-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1944/08/18/archives/stronghold-5-to-1-scores-at-belmont-wheatley-racer-halflength.html |title=Stronghold, 5 to 1, Scores At Belmont |publisher= New York Times, Section Sports, page 18 |date=1944-08-18|accessdate=2021-08-09}}</ref>
==Records== '''Speed record:''' (Jamaica Racetrack) * 1:11.00 @ 6 furlongs: Oil Painting (1955) & Gandharva (1956)
'''Speed record:''' (Saratoga Race Course) * 1:50.00 @ 1-1/8 miles: [[Sun Briar]] (1919)
'''Most wins:''' * 2 - [[Dandelion (horse)|Dandelion]] (1906, 1907)
'''Most wins by a [[jockey]]:''' * 2 - [[George M. Odom]] (1902, 1904) * 2 - Frank Keogh (1920, 1921) * 2 - [[Laverne Fator]] (1928, 1932) * 2 - [[Don Meade]] (1933, 1934)
'''Most wins by a [[Horse trainer|trainer]]:''' * 3 - [[Henry McDaniel (racehorse trainer)|Henry E. McDaniel]] (1919, 1931, 1933) * 3 - [[T. J. Healey|Thomas J. Healey]] (1905, 1910, 1927) * 3 - [[John E. Madden]] (1906, 1907, 1908)
'''Most wins by an owner:''' * 4 - [[Harry P. Whitney]] (1914, 1923, 1924, 1928)
==Winners== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:90%" |- ! style="width:30px" | Year ! style="width:110px" | Winner ! style="width:20px" | Age ! style="width:110px" | Jockey ! style="width:120px" | Trainer ! Owner<br> ! style="width:35px" | {{abbr|Dist.|Distance}}<br> <span style="font-size:75%">([[Mile|Miles]])<br />([[Furlong|Furlongs]])</span> ! style="width:25px" | Time ! style="width:25px" | Win [[United States dollar|$]] |- |align=left colspan=9| '''Jamaica Racetrack''' |- |align=center|1957 |Happy Princess |align=center|5 |[[Ovie Scurlock]] |Gerald E. Lewis |Mabel D. Lewis |align=center|6 f |align=center|1:11.40 |$16,350 |- |align=center|1956 |Gandharva † |align=center|4 |[[Bobby Ussery]] |[[Preston M. Burch]] |[[Brookmeade Stable]] |align=center|6 f |align=center|1:11.00 |$16,550 |- |align=center|1955 |Oil Painting |align=center|4 |[[Hedley Woodhouse]] |[[MacKenzie Miller]] |Mrs. Joseph A. Goodwin |align=center|6 f |align=center|1:11.00 |$11,500 |- |align=center|1954 |Gay Grecque |align=center|5 |Willie Roland |[[Eugene Jacobs]] |Mrs. S. George Zauderer |align=center|6 f |align=center|1:12.00 |$12,375 |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" |align=center|1952 | - 1953 |align=center colspan=7| ''Race not held'' |- |align=center|1951 |Northern Star |align=center|3 |[[Eric Guerin]] |[[John M. Gaver Sr.]] |[[Greentree Stable]] |align=center|6 F |align=center|1:11.40 |$2,635 |- |align=left colspan=9| '''Belmont Park''' |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" |align=center|1945 | - 1950 |align=center colspan=7| ''Race not held'' |- |align=center|1944 |Stronghold |align=center|3 |[[Robert Permane]] |[[James E. Fitzsimmons]] |[[Wheatley Stable]] |align=center|1-1/16 m |align=center|1:44.60 | |- |align=center|1943 |Famous Victory |align=center|3 |[[Ted Atkinson]] |[[John M. Gaver Sr.]] |[[Greentree Stable]] |align=center|1 m |align=center|1:36.00 |- |align=left colspan=9| '''Saratoga Race Course''' |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" |align=center|1942 |align=center colspan=8| ''Race not held'' |- |align=center|1941 |Napper Tandy |align=center|6 |Charles Dickey |Phil Schwartz |Phil Schwartz |align=center|1 m |align=center|1:39.60 | |- |align=center|1940 |Masked General |align=center|6 |[[Maurice Peters]] |William Mulholland |[[Brandywine Stable]] (Donald P. Ross) |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:53.00 |$1,975 |- |align=center|1939 |Sickle T |align=center|4 |[[Ronnie Nash]] |Jack Howard |[[Ben F. Whitaker|Florence D. Whitaker]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:51.00 |$2,500 |- |align=center|1938 |[[Esposa (horse)|Esposa]] |align=center|6 |[[Nick Wall]] |[[Matthew P. Brady]] |[[William Ziegler Jr.]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:50.60 |$2,350 |- |align=center|1937 |Thorson |align=center|5 |[[Johnny Longden]] |Thomas H. McCreery |Buckley M. Byers |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:50.40 |$2,500 |- |align=center|1936 |[[Count Arthur]] |align=center|4 |[[James Stout]] |Lon Johnson |[[Fannie Hertz]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:52.20 |$2,725 |- |align=center|1935 |Good Goods |align=center|4 |[[Jack Westrope]] |[[Robert Augustus Smith|Robert A. Smith]] |[[Brookmeade Stable]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:51.60 |$2,600 |- |align=center|1934 |Mr. Khayyam |align=center|4 |[[Don Meade]] |[[Matthew P. Brady]] |Catawba Stable (Madelaine Austin) |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:52.00 |$2,900 |- |align=center|1933 |Sun Archer |align=center|3 |[[Don Meade]] |[[Henry McDaniel (racehorse trainer)|Henry E. McDaniel]] |[[Willis Sharpe Kilmer]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:54.00 |$2,870 |- |align=center|1932 |Reveille Boy |align=center|5 |[[Laverne Fator]] |John A. Best |John A. Best |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:54.60 |$3,200 |- |align=center|1931 |Curate |align=center|5 |[[Mack Garner]] |[[Henry McDaniel (racehorse trainer)|Henry E. McDaniel]] |[[Joseph E. Widener]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:52.60 |$3,825 |- |align=center|1930 |Caesarion |align=center|5 |Donald Lyons |[[Bennett W. Creech]] |[[William Robertson Coe|William R. Coe]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:53.00 |$3,400 |- |align=center|1929 |Distraction |align=center|4 |James H. Burke |[[James E. Fitzsimmons]] |[[Wheatley Stable]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:55.60 |$3,775 |- |align=center|1928 |[[Victorian (horse)|Victorian]] |align=center|3 |[[Laverne Fator]] |[[James G. Rowe Jr.]] |[[Harry P. Whitney]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:51.00 |$3,775 |- |align=center|1927 |[[Display (horse)|Display]] |align=center|4 |[[John Maiben]] |[[T. J. Healey|Thomas J. Healey]] |[[Walter J. Salmon Sr.]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:52.20 |$3,450 |- |align=center|1926 |[[Peanuts (horse)|Peanuts]] |align=center|4 |[[Harry Richards]] |[[George P. Odom]] |[[Robert Livingston Gerry Sr.|Robert L. Gerry]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:54.00 |$4,200 |- |align=center|1925 |Big Blaze |align=center|4 |[[Albert Johnson (jockey)|Albert Johnson]] |[[Gwyn R. Tompkins]] |[[Glen Riddle Farm]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:54.00 |$3,975 |- |align=center|1924 |Klondyke |align=center|3 |[[Ivan H. Parke|Ivan Parke]] |[[James G. Rowe Sr.]] |[[Harry P. Whitney]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:52.40 |$4,150 |- |align=center|1923 |Bunting |align=center|4 |[[Linus McAtee]] |[[James G. Rowe Sr.]] |[[Harry P. Whitney]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:51.00 | |- |align=center|1922 |[[Mad Hatter (horse)|Mad Hatter]] |align=center|6 |[[Earl Sande]] |[[Sam Hildreth]] |[[Rancocas Stable]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:51.20 |$4,150 |- |align=center|1921 |Sennings Park |align=center|5 |Frank Keogh |[[Scott P. Harlan]] |Westmont Stable ([[Lawrence Waterbury II]] & J. Leonard Replogie) |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:54.00 |$4,175 |- |align=center|1920 |Gnome |align=center|4 |Frank Keogh |William H. Brooks |Samuel Ross & [[Cary T. Grayson]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:53.20 |$3,400 |- |align=center|1919 |[[Sun Briar]] |align=center|4 |[[Willie Knapp]] |[[Henry McDaniel (racehorse trainer)|Henry E. McDaniel]] |[[Willis Sharpe Kilmer]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:50.00 |$2,675 |- |align=center|1918 |Westy Hogan |align=center|4 |[[Clarence Kummer]] |Sandy McNaughton |[[Wilfrid Viau]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:53.60 |$2,675 |- |align=center|1917 |Clematis |align=center|4 |[[Merritt Buxton]] |Thomas M. Murphy |Oscar Lewisohn |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:54.80 |$2,325 |- |align=center|1916 |[[The Finn]] |align=center|4 |[[Andy Schuttinger]] |Edward W. Heffner |[[Harry C. Hallenbeck]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:52.80 |$1,925 |- |align=center|1915 |Star Jasmine |align=center|6 |Eddie Martin |[[Thomas Clay McDowell|Thomas C. McDowell]] |[[Thomas Clay McDowell|Thomas C. McDowell]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:55.60 |$1,925 |- |align=center|1914 |Pandean |align=center|4 |Joe Kederis |[[Albert Simons (horse trainer)|Albert Simons]] |[[Harry P. Whitney]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:54.60 |$1,925 |- |align=center|1913 |Cock o' the Walk |align=center|3 |Buddy Glass |[[John P. Mayberry]] |Frederick Johnson |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:51.80 |$1,925 |- style="background:#eee;" |align=center|1912 | rowspan="2" colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"| ''No races held due to the [[Hart–Agnew Law]].'' |- style="background:#eee;" |align=center|1911 |- |align=center|1910 |[[Olambala]] |align=center|4 |[[James Butwell]] |[[T. J. Healey|Thomas J. Healey]] |[[Richard Thornton Wilson Jr.|Richard T. Wilson Jr.]]
|align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:55.00 |$2,315 |- |align=center|1909 |Wise Mason |align=center|3 |[[Eddie Dugan]] |[[Thomas Welsh (horse trainer)|Thomas Welsh]] |[[Newcastle Stable]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:53.80 |$1,925 |- |align=center|1908 |Angelus |align=center|3 |[[Carroll H. Shilling|Caroll Shilling]] |[[John E. Madden]] |[[Thomas Hitchcock Sr.]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:54.80 |$535 |- |align=center|1907 |[[Dandelion (horse)|Dandelion]] |align=center|5 |[[Herman Radtke]] |[[John E. Madden]] |[[Francis R. Hitchcock]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:52.20 |$2,300 |- |align=center|1906 |[[Dandelion (horse)|Dandelion]] |align=center|4 |[[LaVerne Sewell]] |[[John E. Madden]] |[[Francis R. Hitchcock]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:54.00 |$2,300 |- |align=center|1905 |[[Dolly Spanker]] |align=center|4 |[[Lucien Lyne]] |[[T. J. Healey|Thomas J. Healey]] |[[Richard Thornton Wilson Jr.|Richard T. Wilson Jr.]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:53.00 |$2,300 |- |align=center|1904 |Molly Brant |align=center|4 |[[George M. Odom]] |Hubert H. Hyner |[[Stephen Sanford|S. Sanford & Sons]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:56.40 |$2,300 |- |align=center|1903 |[[Africander (horse)|Africander]] |align=center|3 |[[Grover Fuller]] |[[Richard O. Miller]] |Hampton Stable (Charles F. Dwyer & Simon Deimel) |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:56.00 |$2,295 |- |align=center|1902 |Advance Guard |align=center|5 |[[George M. Odom]] |[[Alexander Shields (horse trainer)|Alexander Shields]] |James Carruthers & Alexander Shields |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:51.40 |$2,300 |- |align=center|1901 |Rockton |align=center|4 |[[Willie Shaw (jockey)|Willie Shaw]] |William Hayward Jr. |[[John Sanford (1851–1939)|John Sanford]] |align=center|1-1/8 m |align=center|1:54.40 |$2,300 |- |} * † Blue Sparkler finished first but was disqualified for interfering with runner-up Gandharva.
==References== {{reflist}}
[[Category:Flat horse races for three-year-olds]] [[Category:Jamaica Race Course]] [[Category:Belmont Park]] [[Category:Saratoga Race Course]] [[Category:Discontinued horse races in New York (state)]] [[Category:Horse races established in 1901]] [[Category:Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1958]]