Barkley Sound

[Pedigree Ann]

Originally Posted by miraja2

The Hansel Stakes!! Did anyone bring this up in the thread about who does and does not deserve a stakes race named after them? Sir Barton no longer has a stakes named after him but HANSEL does!! What the........

Hansel actually ran at Turfway Park (won the Jim Beam, as it was then) and Sir Barton didn't. Lots of stakes named after 'local' horses at tracks everywhere. Sportsman's named one for Maxwell G. (My Hero - raced to age 15, won 47 of 234 starts). Turfway also has one named for Gowell (that's Go Well), who was a SW at Old Latonia about 1913. (Old Latonia was the best track in Kentucky before the Depression; when Turfway was built it tried to cash in on Latonia's cachet of class by using the name. Instead, it merely degraded the old name and had to come up with a new one to 're-brand' itself.)

And Sir Barton has (and has had for a long time) a race named for him at the descendent of his home base in Canada, Woodbine. (Old Woodbine was renamed Greenwood when New Woodbine was built).