The Garden State Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

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 held annually in mid November at the now defunct Garden State Park Racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey

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. A futurity event for two-year-olds, it is sometimes referred to as the Garden State Futurity. By 1956, the purse offered was $300,000 added, making it the richest horse race in the world.

The race was contested on dirt until 1994 when it was changed to a race on turf

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. It was raced at various distances:

• On dirt:
• Inception - 1952: 6 furlong
  Furlong
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  s on dirt
• 1953 - 1972, 1993: 1 1/16 miles on dirt
• 1985 - 1992: 1 1/8 miles on dirt
• 1998 : 1 mile on dirt (1998 race switched from turf due to heavy rains)
  

• On turf:
• 1994-1995 : 1 1/16 miles on turf
• 1996-1997, 1999 : 1 mile on turf

In 1955, the racetrack created a counterpart for fillies

Filly

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 called the Gardenia Stakes

Gardenia Stakes

The Gardenia Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the second week of November. Created in 1955 at Garden State Park Racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, the 11/16 mile event was the world's richest race for two-year-old fillies, offering a total purse of US$130,300 in...

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The Garden State Stakes was placed on hiatus in 1973 and after a fire destroyed the racetrack on April 14, 1977 it would not be run again until a new track was built by International Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. through its wholly owned subsidiary, Garden State Race Track, Inc. headed by Robert E. Brennan that opened on April 1, 1985. The March 18, 2000 issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the Garden State Stakes had been cancelled for financial reasons.

Winners

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Distance	Time
1999	Judges' View	Jesus Castanon	Luis Collazo Luis Collazo Luis Collazo is a boxer in the welterweight division. His boxing record is 31-4 . He is a former WBA welterweight champion.- Professional career :...	Lee A. Rogalski	8 F	1:39.10
1998	Who Did It and Run	Felix Ortiz	Debra Sones	Debra Sones	8 F	1:36.51
1997	Keep it Strait	Charles C. Lopez	Joseph H. Pierce, Jr.	M. Delfiner & A. Gilman	8 F	1:43.05
1996	Fitz	Victor Molina	Edward Colettti, Jr.	Ken & Sarah Ramsey	8 F	1:40.69
1995	Claramount Hill	Julie Krone Julie Krone Julie Krone , is a retired American jockey. In 1993, she became the first female jockey to win a Triple Crown race when she captured the Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair...	Philip M. Serpe	Double R. Stable	8.5 F	1:44.26
1994	Alleged Impression	Mario Verge	Eddie Gaudet	Morris Bailey	8.5 F	1:44.56
1993	Tri For The Gold	Matthew Vigliotti	Robert Seeger	Plumstead Stables	8.5 F	1:45.02
1992	Fling	Nick Santagata	Ronald Glorioso	Prescott & Pamela McCardell	9 F	1:53.58
1991	Tank	Rick Wilson	Benjamin W. Perkins, Jr. Benjamin W. Perkins, Jr. Benjamin W. Perkins, Jr. is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, he is the son of Ben Perkins, Sr. who conditioned racehorses for close to fifty years. In 1981, Perkins, Jr. won his first race with at Atlantic...	Bohemia Stable	9 F	1:51.03
1990	Killer Diller	James Bruin	Frank A. Alexander Frank A. Alexander Frank A. Alexander is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Alexander took out his trainer's license in 1963 and in 1974 opened a public stable in Maryland. He returned to his present base in New York in 1987...	Barry K. Schwartz Barry K. Schwartz Barry K. Schwartz is an American businessman, Thoroughbred racehorse owner, and a former horse racing industry executive. The son of a grocer who was murdered when Barry was twenty-one-years old, Schwartz grew up in a one-bedroom apartment in The Bronx...	9 F	1:52.40
1989	Faultless Ensign	Chris DeCarlo	Benjamin W. Perkins, Jr. Benjamin W. Perkins, Jr. Benjamin W. Perkins, Jr. is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, he is the son of Ben Perkins, Sr. who conditioned racehorses for close to fifty years. In 1981, Perkins, Jr. won his first race with at Atlantic...	B. W. Perkins, Sr./Anthony Tornetta	9 F	1:51.20
1988	Tsarbaby	Herb McCauley Herb McCauley W. Herbert McCauley is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who has been called "one of the most talented and aggressive riders of his generation" by John Piesen, an odds-maker for the New York Post and the Daily Racing Form. While still a small boy, Herb McCauley began riding horses on...	D. Wayne Lukas D. Wayne Lukas Darrell Wayne Lukas is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S...	Peter M. Brant Peter M. Brant Peter M. Brant is an American industrialist, businessman and entrepreneur, worth an estimated $2.4 billion. He is also a major art collector, movie producer, and avid horseman...	9 F	1:52.20
1987	Mister S M	Frank Lovato, Jr. Frank Lovato, Jr. Frank Lovato, Jr. is a retired American Thoroughbred jockey.- Career :During a career that spanned 25 years Lovato rode a total of 15,603 mounts, winning on 1,686 of them and finishing in the money on another 3,506. The horses he rode earned a total of $41,795,267...	Stephen L. DiMauro	Samuel F. Morrell	9 F	1:49.80
1986	Fobby Forbes	Randy Romero Randy Romero Randy Paul Romero is a Hall of Fame jockey in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing, Born into a family involved with horses, his father Lloyd J...	Carlos Garcia	Due Process Stable	9 F	1:51.00
1985	Spend a Buck Spend A Buck Spend A Buck was an American thoroughbred race horse.-Background:Spend A Buck was sired by Buckaroo out of the dam Belle de Jour...	Angel Cordero, Jr.	Cam Gambolati Cam Gambolati Cam M. Gambolati is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer best known for winning the 1985 Kentucky Derby with Spend A Buck....	Hunter Farm	9 F	1:45.80
1972	Secretariat Secretariat (horse) Secretariat was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, that in 1973 became the first U.S. Triple Crown champion in 25 years, setting new race records in two of the three events in the Series—the Kentucky Derby , and the Belmont Stakes —records that still stand today.Secretariat was sired by Bold...	Ron Turcotte Ron Turcotte Ron Joseph Morel Turcotte, CM is a Hall of Fame thoroughbred race horse jockey best known as the rider of Secretariat, winner of the U.S. Triple Crown in 1973....	Lucien Laurin Lucien Laurin Lucien Laurin was a French-Canadian jockey and Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse trainer.-Life and career:...	Meadow Stable	8.5 F	1:44.40
1971	Riva Ridge Riva Ridge Riva Ridge was a thoroughbred racehorse, the winner of the 1972 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. A son of First Landing out of Iberia , he was owned and bred by the Meadow Stable of Christopher Chenery. The horse's name came from Chenery's son-in-law, John Tweedy, who was a soldier in World War...	Ron Turcotte Ron Turcotte Ron Joseph Morel Turcotte, CM is a Hall of Fame thoroughbred race horse jockey best known as the rider of Secretariat, winner of the U.S. Triple Crown in 1973....	Lucien Laurin Lucien Laurin Lucien Laurin was a French-Canadian jockey and Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse trainer.-Life and career:...	Meadow Stable	8.5 F	1:43.60
1970	Run the Gantlet Run the Gantlet Run the Gantlet was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse and noted sire. He was out of the mare First Feather, whom owner Paul Mellon had purchased as a yearling at a then record price of $90,000 for a filly. He was sired by the 1965 Preakness Stakes winner, Tom Rolfe, a son of the...	John L. Rotz John L. Rotz John L. Rotz is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey and an active World Champion in Western riding competitions....	J. Elliott Burch J. Elliott Burch John Elliott Burch was an American National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Four of his horses were inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.-Biography:...	Rokeby Stable	8.5 F	1:45.00
1969	Forum	Walter Blum Walter Blum Walter "Mousey" Blum is a retired Hall of Fame jockey.A horse racing fan from boyhood, in his teens Blum began working as a racetrack hotwalker. Despite being blind in his right eye from the age of two, in 1953 he embarked on a career as a jockey, riding his first winner on July 29 at Saratoga...	Eugene Jacobs	Herbert A. Allen, Sr. Herbert A. Allen, Sr. Herbert Allen, Sr. was an American stock broker. A partner in Allen & Company with his older brother Charles for more than fifty-five years, they were one of the first in the industry to specialize in corporate takeovers. One of the wealthiest figures on Wall Street, in 1956 he was appointed...	8.5 F	1:44.40
1968	Beau Brummel	Braulio Baeza Braulio Baeza Braulio Baeza is an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He began racing in 1955 and in 1960, at the urging of agent Camilo Marin, moved to compete in the United States where at the Keeneland Race Course he won the very first he competed in.Braulio Baeza's success in America was...	Edward A. Neloy Edward A. Neloy Edward Albert "Eddie" Neloy was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. At age fourteen, he began working at a racetrack then joined the United States Army during World War II...	Ogden Mills Phipps Ogden Mills Phipps Ogden Mills "Dinny" Phipps is a retired American financier and prominent Thoroughbred racehorse industry executive and a Thoroughbred owner/breeder...	8.5 F	1:44.60
1967	Bugged	Eddie Belmonte Eddie Belmonte Eddie Belmonte is a retired jockey who competed at the highest levels in Thoroughbred horse racing in his native Puerto Rico and in the United States....	Ivor G. Balding	C. V. Whitney	8.5 F	1:44.80
1966	Successor Successor (horse) Successor was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He was bred and raced by Gladys Phipps and her brother Ogden L. Mills under their Wheatley Stable banner...	Braulio Baeza Braulio Baeza Braulio Baeza is an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He began racing in 1955 and in 1960, at the urging of agent Camilo Marin, moved to compete in the United States where at the Keeneland Race Course he won the very first he competed in.Braulio Baeza's success in America was...	Edward A. Neloy Edward A. Neloy Edward Albert "Eddie" Neloy was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. At age fourteen, he began working at a racetrack then joined the United States Army during World War II...	Wheatley Stable Wheatley Stable Wheatley Stable was the nom de course for the thoroughbred horse racing partnership formed by Gladys Mills Phipps and her brother, Ogden L. Mills. The horses were raised at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky.-History:...	8.5 F	1:44.20
1965	Prince Saim	Joe Culmone Joe Culmone Joseph "Joe" Culmone was an American Champion jockey. in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing.Joe Culmone was born in Delia, Sicily, where he lived in a farming area and learned to ride horses. His mother died during World War II and in 1946 he emigrated to the United States to join his father...	Al Pepino	Pepino brothers	8.5 F	1.42.80
1964	Sadair	Manuel Ycaza Manuel Ycaza Manuel Ycaza is a retired United States Racing Hall of Fame jockey who led the way for Latin American jockeys in the United States....	Les Lear Les Lear Leslie Lear was a National Football League and Canadian Football League player and coach as well as a owner and trainer of Thoroughbred race horse.-Football:...	North Forty Stable	8.5 F	1:41.00
1963	Hurry to Market Hurry to Market Hurry to Market was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by Louise Clements, he was out of Hasty Girl, a daughter of two-time Leading sire in North America, Princequillo...	W. C. Cook	David Erb David Erb David Erb is a retired jockey and trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. He started riding as a young farm boy and began his professional riding career in 1938, competing at tracks in his native Nebraska...	Roger Wilson/Mrs. T. P. Hull, Jr.	8.5 F	1:45.20
1962	Crewman	Bill Shoemaker	Winbert F. Mulholland Winbert F. Mulholland Winbert F. "Bert" Mulholland was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Born in Lexington, Kentucky, the American heartland for Thoroughbred horse breeding, Bert Mulholland began his career in racing as an exercise rider for his uncle, W. C. "Farmer Bill" Scully.In 1923 Bert...	George D. Widener, Jr. George D. Widener, Jr. George Dunton Widener, Jr. was an American businessman and thoroughbred racehorse owner; one of only five people ever designated "Exemplars of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.-Biography:...	8.5 F	1:44.00
1961	Crimson Satan Crimson Satan Crimson Satan was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse bred and raced by Peter W. Salmen Sr.'s Crimson King Farm at Lexington, Kentucky. His dam was Salmen's Argentine-bred mare Papila, and his sire was Charles Fisher's good runner Spy Song...	Bill Shoemaker	Gordon R. Potter	Crimson King Farm	8.5 F	1:44.20
1960	Carry Back Carry Back Carry Back by Saggy out of Joppy, was an American Hall of Fame thoroughbred racehorse with a less than stellar pedigree but who nonetheless won many important graded stakes races including the 1961 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. His racing colors were blue, silver hoops and sleeves...	Johnny Sellers Johnny Sellers Johnny Sellers was an American jockey. Born in Los Angeles, but raised in Oklahoma, he began his professional career in 1955 and between 1959 and 1968 rode in six Kentucky Derbys. He won the prestigious race aboard Carry Back in 1961 then riding the colt to victory in the Preakness Stakes...	Jack A. Price	Mrs. Katherine Price	8.5 F	1:46.40
1959	Warfare	Ismael Valenzuela Ismael Valenzuela Ismael "Milo" Valenzuela was a Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He was one of 22 children born to parents who had immigrated to the United states. Shortly after Ismael Valenzuela's birth, the family returned to their native Mexico...	Hack Ross	Bellehurst Stable	8.5 F	1:42.80
1958	First Landing First Landing (horse) First Landing was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Sired by Turn-To, a grandson of the great Nearco, he was out of the mare Hildene, whose sire was the 1926 Kentucky Derby winner, Bubbling Over...	Eddie Arcaro Eddie Arcaro George Edward Arcaro , known professionally as Eddie Arcaro, was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who won more American classic races than any other jockey in history and is the only rider to have won the U.S. Triple Crown twice...	Casey Hayes	Christopher Chenery Christopher Chenery Christopher Tompkins Chenery was an American engineer, businessman, and owner/breeder of Thoroughbred horse racing's U.S. Triple Crown champion Secretariat....	8.5 F	1:46.40
1957	Nadir	Bill Hartack Bill Hartack William John Hartack Jr. was a Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania.Referred to by the media as both "Bill" and "Willie" during his racing career, Hartack grew up on his widowed father's farm in the Blacklick...	Moody Jolley Moody Jolley Moody Jolley was an American thoroughbred horse racing owner, breeder and trainer. He began his professional training career in the mid 1930s and by 1940 had his first Kentucky Derby runner. For several years, he trained for Harry Guggenheim's Cain Hoy Stable. After their partnership ended in...	Claiborne Farm Claiborne Farm Claiborne Farm is a thoroughbred Horse breeding operation in near Paris, Kentucky. It was established in 1910, by Arthur B. Hancock, owner of Ellerslie Farm in Albemarle County, Virginia, and has been operated by members of his family ever since.-Owners:...	8.5 F	1:44.20
1956	Barbizon	Bill Hartack Bill Hartack William John Hartack Jr. was a Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania.Referred to by the media as both "Bill" and "Willie" during his racing career, Hartack grew up on his widowed father's farm in the Blacklick...	Horace A. Jones Horace A. Jones Horace A. "Jimmy" Jones was an American thoroughbred horse trainer.The son of Hall of Fame horse trainer Ben A. Jones, Jimmy Jones was born in Parnell, Missouri...	Calumet Farm Calumet Farm Calumet Farm is a Thoroughbred breeding and training farm established in 1924 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States by William Monroe Wright, founding owner of the Calumet Baking Powder Company. Calumet is located in the heart of Lexington's blue grass country, the finest horse breeding region in...	8.5 F	1:44.80
1955	Prince John Prince John (horse) Prince John was an American Thoroughbred racehorse whom Bloodhorse magazine called "one of the greatest broodmare sires of all time." Bred in Kentucky, he was sired by Princequillo, a two-time leading sire in North America and a nine-time leading broodmare sire. He was out of the mare, Not...	Angel Valenzuela	Walter A. Kelley	Elmendorf Farm	8.5 F	1:42.60
1954	Summer Tan Summer Tan Summer Tan was an American Thoroughbred racehorse bred and raced by Dorothy Firestone Galbreath and race conditioned by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer, Sherrill Ward....	Eric Guerin Eric Guerin Oliver Eric Guerin is an American Hall of Fame jockey.Eric Guerin was born in Maringouin, Louisiana, in Cajun backwater country, twenty-four miles west of Baton Rouge...	Sherrill W. Ward Sherrill W. Ward Sherrill W. Ward was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Born in Miami, Florida, he was the son of trainer John Sherrill Ward. His brother, John T. Ward, also trained horses and ran Fort Springs Farm in Lexington, Kentucky...	Dorothy Firestone	8.5 F	1:46.20
1953	Turn-To Turn-To Turn-To was a British Thoroughbred stallion racehorse. He was sired by the great British stakes winner Royal Charger, out of the French mare Source Sucree, whose sire, Admiral Drake, was third on the French sire list in 1949....	Henry Moreno Henry Moreno Henry Moreno was a Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.Moreno's most important win for Harry F. Guggenheim's stable came in the 1953 Kentucky Derby when he rode Dark Star to victory over future the Hall of Fame colt, Native Dancer....	Eddie Hayward Eddie Hayward Edward "Eddie" C. Hayward was a Canadian-born trainer in American Thoroughbred horse racing best known for winning the 1953 Kentucky Derby in which his colt Dark Star defeated the great Native Dancer.-Racing career:...	Cain Hoy Stable Cain Hoy Stable Cain Hoy Stable was a Thoroughbred racing stable and horse breeding operation with training facilities in Columbia, South Carolina and Kissimmee, Florida. It was owned by Harry Guggenheim who also raced horses in Europe...	8.5 F	1:46.20
1952	Laffango	Nick Shuk Nick Shuk Nicholas "Nick" Shuk was an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. He began his career in 1948 as a contract rider for Art Rooney, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team. In the 1950s, Shuk won the Maryland jockey title seven times and was the leading jockey at Delaware Park...	Merritt Buxton	Trio Stable	6 F	1:11.40
1951	Candle Wood	Chris Rogers Chris Rogers Chris Rogers is a British television journalist. He is currently working freelance with media organisations based in London.Rogers debuted on BBC Radio 5's youth programme, Vibe. Presenting Buzz FM in Birmingham in 1990, then in 1992 he presented on Hallam FM where he anchored the evening show 'No...		Robert C. Hanna	6 F	1:11.80
1950	Iswas	Joe Culmone Joe Culmone Joseph "Joe" Culmone was an American Champion jockey. in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing.Joe Culmone was born in Delia, Sicily, where he lived in a farming area and learned to ride horses. His mother died during World War II and in 1946 he emigrated to the United States to join his father...	D. W. Kerns	Brookfield Farm	6 F
1949	Cornwall	Bob Strange	B. Frank Christmas	Abram S. Hewitt	6 F
1948	Blue Peter Blue Peter IV Blue Peter was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. Bred and raced by Joseph M. Roebling, great-grandson of John A. Roebling, who built the Brooklyn Bridge, Blue Peter was out of the mare Carillon, a granddaughter of Teddy. He was sired by 1937 U.S. Triple Crown champion War Admiral, a son...	Wayne Wright Wayne D. Wright Wayne Danforth Wright was a Champion American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who won all three of the Triple Crown races in different years....	Andy Schuttinger	Joseph M. Roebling	5 F	1:00.80
1947	Itsabet	Don Padgett	D. W. Kerns	Brookfield Farm	6 F	1:11.60
1946	Double Jay Double Jay (horse) Double Jay was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by John W. Stanley in Lexington, Kentucky, he was purchased as a yearling for $19,000 by Wilmington, Delaware businessmen James V...	Johnny Breen	Walter L. McCue	Ridgewood Stable	6 F	1:11.00
1945	Air Rate	Harry Pratt	Ralph Lentini	Frederick Wyse	6 F	1:13.20
1944	Alexis		John A. Healey	Christiana Stable	6 F