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17-661: The event was inaugurated on 7 April 1990 as the Preview Stakes over a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles, and it was created as a replacement for the Flamingo Stakes that ceased to exist following the closure of Hialeah Park Race Track . The event was held three weeks after the Florida Derby and the winner Home At Last did not run in any of the Triple Crown Races . In 1991 the distance

34-610: A capable rider. In the ensuing years, he rode at major tracks in New York , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Maryland Kentucky and Illinois . Among his significant wins were the Arlington-Washington Lassie Stakes and the Stars and Stripes Handicap . In his best finish in an American Classic , Snider rode owner Fred W. Hooper's colt Hoop Jr. to second place in the 1945 Preakness Stakes . He won

51-462: A track record time, one on turf and the other on dirt. 1948 promised to be a great year as Snider prepared to ride Citation in the U.S. Triple Crown series. At Hialeah Park Race Track , he rode the colt to victory in the 1948 Seminole and Everglades Handicaps . Several days after winning the Flamingo Stakes , Snider used a day off, March 5, to go fishing in the Florida Keys . While out on

68-697: The Kentucky Derby . In 2006 Barbaro won the event for his fourth straight win continuing on to win the Florida Derby and the Kentucky Derby . In 2020 Tiz the Law also won the Florida Derby continuing on to win the Belmont Stakes when it was held in late June and was the first event in the Triple Crown series which was rescheduled to due to COVID-19 pandemic . The event is part of the Road to

85-519: The U.S. Champion 2-Year-Old Colt . In all, Snider rode Citation five times at age two and four times at age three. He won all nine races. Another of Snider's impressive wins in 1947 was aboard Fervent in the mile and three-sixteenths Pimlico Special . Run October 30 at Narragansett Park , stiff competition in the $ 25,000 winner-take-all race saw the field narrowed to four runners. In addition to Fervent, Calumet Farm also entered their best runner, Armed . Ridden by Douglas Dodson , bettors made Armed

102-637: The 1-5 favorite in a year the future Hall of Fame gelding would be voted American Horse of the Year honors. The William G. Helis Sr. colt Cosmic Bomb had Ovie Scurlock aboard, Loyal Legion, owned by Walter M. Jeffords , was ridden by Eddie Arcaro . In the space of two days in May 1947, Snider guided three different horses to wins at Havre de Grace Racetrack in track record time. On two days during July at two racetracks in Chicago he rode two more horses to

119-604: The 1946 inaugural running of the Miss America Handicap with Hal Price Headley's Letmenow. Signed on to ride for Calumet Farm , Snider became the jockey for future United States' Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Citation . He rode Citation in his career debut on April 22, 1947, winning a 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlong race at Havre de Grace Racetrack and most notably going on to win the Belmont Futurity Stakes en route to Citation being voted

136-625: The Flamingo Stakes under regular jockey Al Snider . Six days later, Snider drowned while out fishing in the Florida Keys ; Eddie Arcaro replaced him on Citation, going on to win the U.S. Triple Crown . The Flamingo Stakes was run in two divisions in 1952. Chief's Crown finished first in the 1985 Flamingo Stakes but was disqualified to second. A successful appeal was reported by The Washington Post as "Racing officials in Florida redressed an injustice yesterday and made Chief's Crown

153-525: The Florida Derby until 1937, the inaugural event took place at Tampa Downs on February 27, 1926. There was no race in 1927 and 1928 but was revived in 1929 at Hialeah Park Race Track . In 1937, Court Scandal won the first edition of the renamed Flamingo Stakes for owner Townsend Martin , an investment banker, polo player, and former part owner of the New York Jets football team. With

170-483: The Kentucky Derby with qualification points given to the first four placegetters. Speed record: Margins: Most wins by a trainer : Most wins by a jockey : Most wins by an owner: List of American and Canadian Graded races Flamingo Stakes The Flamingo Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses run over a distance of a mile and one-eighth. Run as

187-599: The Preview Stakes with the Holy Bull Stakes which assumed the classification of the event. In 2008 the event was scheduled in April after the Florida Derby and run over a distance of 1 + 3 ⁄ 16 miles. The event was upgraded to Grade II in 2014 and held this status until 2019. The event was degraded to Grade III for 2020. The event has produced Classic winners . The 1994 winner Go for Gin won

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204-477: The eighth horse in history to win the U.S. Triple Crown. Calumet Farm and winning jockey Arcaro, one of Snider's friends, gave Snider's widow a share of his Kentucky Derby purse money . In an extensive 1999 interview, Calumet Farm's Hall of Fame trainer Jimmy Jones spoke to Blood-Horse Publications about Snider with "fondness and respect" saying such things as "Albert was a great rider, just as good as Eddie Arcaro", "Albert rode Citation better than anybody", "he

221-652: The introduction of the grading system for races in 1973, the Flamingo Stakes was given Grade I status which it held through 1989. Run in March or early April, for many years it was a very important early prep race for the Kentucky Derby . Nine winners of this race went on to win the Derby: Lawrin (1938), Faultless (1947) Citation (1948), Needles (1956), Tim Tam (1958), Carry Back (1961), Northern Dancer (1964), Foolish Pleasure (1975), Seattle Slew (1977), Spectacular Bid (1979). In 1948, Citation won

238-438: The official winner of the Flamingo Stakes." Hialeah Park racetrack ran into financial problems and in 2001 the facility ceased racing operations. Frank Stronach 's Thunder Blitz won the final running of the Flamingo Stakes. Speed record: Most wins by a jockey : Most wins by a trainer : Most wins by an owner: Note: Albert Snider Albert Snider (October 22, 1921 – March 5, 1948)

255-448: The water, a sudden storm came up and Snider apparently drowned. His skiff was found eight days later on a small island 10 miles (16 km) south of Everglades City , but search parties found no trace of Snider or the two other men who had been with him. Calumet Farms head trainer Ben Jones hired Eddie Arcaro to replace Snider on Citation and they won the Kentucky Derby , Preakness Stakes , and Belmont Stakes , making him only

272-641: Was a jockey in Thoroughbred racing who had success in his native Canada as well as the United States. Snider was born in Calgary , Alberta , in 1921. He got his first win as a Thoroughbred jockey on September 1, 1938, at Stamford Park racetrack in Niagara Falls, Ontario . He was riding in the southern United States in the latter part of 1938 where he quickly established a reputation as

289-432: Was decreased to 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles and in 1992 the event was rescheduled to early February thus becoming a preparatory race for the Florida Derby. In 1995 the Preview Stakes was upgraded to a Grade III . That same year Gulfstream Park scheduled an event in March in honor of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame horse Holy Bull who had won the Florida Derby in 1994. The following year in 1996, Gulfstream Park replaced

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