The Gulfstream Park Mile Stakes (formerly known as the Gulfstream Park Handicap) is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Gulfstream Park each year. The race is open to horses age four and up, willing to race one mile on the dirt. A Grade II event run in early March, it currently offers a purse of $ 200,000.
7-467: The Gulfstream Park Handicap was first run in 1946. It was won the next year in track record time by Armed , dubbed "the greatest attraction ever offered at his young seaside course" by the New York Times . In 1948 Rampart became the first female horse to win the race, defeating Armed at odds of 26–1. Graded stakes race status: In 1997, Barbara Minshall became the first female trainer to win
14-591: A jockey : Most wins by a trainer: * In 1962, Yorky won the race but was disqualified and set back to second place. Armed Armed (May, 1941–1964) was an American Thoroughbred gelding race horse who was the American Horse of the Year in 1947 and Champion Older Male Horse in both 1946 and 1947. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1963. Armed
21-405: The race in its fifty-two-year history. As part of his record seven wins of this race, Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey won this race four times in a row from 1995 through 1998. The distance of the race was set at one mile in 2009. It was run at 1 + 3 ⁄ 16 miles from 2005 to 2008, and at 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles before that time. Speed record: Most wins: Most wins by
28-463: The track late in his two-year-old season and resumed training. His first start was as a three-year-old the following February, and he won at Hialeah Park by eight lengths. He won again less than a week later but then won only once in five more starts and had to be rested due to an ankle injury. Armed raced for seven seasons, from 1944 to 1950, finishing with a 41-20-10 record in 81 starts. On April 20, 1946, under jockey Douglas Dodson Armed broke
35-650: The track record for a mile and a sixteenth on dirt with a winning time of 1:43 1/5 in the Philadelphia Handicap at the Havre de Grace Racetrack . In 1947, again ridden by jockey Dodson, he defeated U.S. Triple Crown champion Assault in a match race at Belmont Park and set a track record of 2:01-3/5 for one and one-quarter miles while winning the Widener Handicap and carrying 129 pounds. He repeated as American Champion Older Male Horse and
42-497: Was sired by the great stakes winner Bull Lea , the sire of Citation . His dam was Armful, whose sire was Belmont Stakes winner Chance Shot and whose grandsire was the great Fair Play . Besides being small for his age and very headstrong, Armed had the habits of biting and kicking hay out of his handler's pitchfork . Since he was also practically untrainable, his trainer , Ben A. Jones , sent him back to Calumet Farm to be gelded and turned out to grow up. He returned to
49-451: Was voted 1947 American Horse of the Year honors. In the Horse of the Year poll conducted by Turf and Sport Digest magazine, he received 151 of a possible 173 votes to win the title from Citation , Stymie , Bewitch and Assault . Armed died in 1964 of an intestinal tumor . In 1963, he was inducted into National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame . In The Blood-Horse ranking of
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