Regret Stakes
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For the race of the same name at Monmouth Park Racetrack
Monmouth Park Racetrack
Monmouth Park Racetrack is an American race track for thoroughbred horse racing in Oceanport, New Jersey. It is owned by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority and is operated under a five-year lease as a partnership with Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City.Monmouth Park's marquee event...

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: Monmouth Regret Stakes
Monmouth Regret Stakes
The Regret Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Raced in early August, it is open to fillies and mares, age three and older...

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The Regret Stakes is a Thoroughbred
Thoroughbred
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 horse race for three year old fillies
Filly
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 run on the turf
Grass
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 at Churchill Downs
Churchill Downs
Churchill Downs, located in Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, is a Thoroughbred racetrack most famous for hosting the Kentucky Derby annually. It officially opened in 1875, and held the first Kentucky Derby and the first Kentucky Oaks in the same year. Churchill Downs...

 in mid-June near the end of the Spring Meet in Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
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. Set at one and one-eighth miles (9 furlong
Furlong
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s), the Grade III
Graded stakes race
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 Regret offers a purse of $200,000 added.

The race is named for Harry Payne Whitney
Harry Payne Whitney
Harry Payne Whitney was an American businessman, thoroughbred horsebreeder, and member of the prominent Whitney family.- Early years :...

's 1915 champion filly Regret
Regret (horse)
Regret was a famous American thoroughbred racehorse and the first of three fillies to ever win the Kentucky Derby.-Background:She was foaled at Harry Payne Whitney's Brookdale Farm in Lincroft, New Jersey...

, the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby
Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter mile at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry...

. In the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, she is #71 and in a poll among members of the American Trainers Association, she was voted the third greatest filly in American racing history. Gallorette
Gallorette
Gallorette was a Maryland-bred chestnut thoroughbred filly who became a Hall of Fame race horse. Sired by Challenger II, out of Gallette, Gallorette's damsire was Sir Gallahad III. Even so, her dam, Gallette, had once exchanged hands for $250 and was used as a hack. -Breeding:Trainer Preston M...

 was voted first. Regret was undefeated as a two year-old, she made her three-year old debut in the Derby, winning in wire-to-wire fashion.

It will be in its 40th running in 2009. The race was inaugurated in 1970 and became a graded stakes race
Graded stakes race
A graded stakes race is a term applied since 1973 by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay...

 for the first time in 1999. The Regret Stakes was run at six furlongs for its first twelve years (1970–1981). From 1982-1987 the race was run at a distance of one mile and from 1988-2002 it was run at 1-1/16 miles. From 2003 to present it has been run at its current distance of 1-1/8 miles. In 1977 a filly named Time for Pleasure won the race but was disqualified and placed second.

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 1⅛ miles)
  • 1:47.31 - Lady of Venice (2006)


Most wins by a jockey
Jockey
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  • 3 - James McKnight (1974, 1983, 1985)
  • 3 - Larry Melancon
    Larry Melancon
    Larry J. Melancon is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who rides primarily on the Kentucky-Arkansas circuit....

     (1982, 1984, 2001)


Most wins by a trainer
Horse trainer
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  • 3 - William I. Mott (1984, 1986, 1991)


Most wins by an owner:
  • 2 - Leslie Combs II (1971, 1977)
  • 2 - Golden Chance Farm (1974, 1976)
  • 2 - H. Polk, Jr. (1984, 1991)

Past winners

Year
Winner
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
Purse
Grade
2011 Bizzy Caroline Manoel Cruz Ken McPeek Runnymeade Farm 1:49.73 $138,125 IIIT
2010 Caminadora Corey Nakatani
Corey Nakatani
Corey S. Nakatani is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He got his big break in 1990 when he rode Itsallgreektome to win big stakes races.Nakatani currently resides at Belmont Park...

Todd Pletcher
Todd Pletcher
Todd Pletcher is a leading American thoroughbred horse trainer. He has won four consecutive Eclipse Awards as outstanding Trainer of the Year, while topping the leader board in purse earnings in 2004, 2005, and 2006. His horse Super Saver won the 2010 Kentucky Derby, the first of his 24 horses...

Starlight Partners 1:52.04 $145,250 IIIT
2009 Keertana Robby Albarado
Robby Albarado
Robby J. Albarado is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding at the age of 12 at bush tracks in his native Louisiana and after turning professional, earned his first win at Evangeline Downs in 1990...

Thomas F. Proctor
Thomas F. Proctor
Thomas F. Proctor is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses who won the 1994 edition of the Breeders' Cup Distaff with One Dreamer....

Barbara Hunter 1:52.02 $200,000 III
2008 Pure Clan Julien Leparoux
Julien Leparoux
Julien R. Leparoux is a Champion jockey currently racing in the United States.Leparoux, grew up in a racing family, the son of a jockey turned assistant trainer. He worked at the Chantilly Racecourse as a stable hand and in January 2003 emigrated to California to work as an exercise rider for...

Robert E. Holthus
Robert E. Holthus
Robert E. "Bob" Holthus was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. As a second generation trainer, Holthus learned the profession from his father, Paul Holthus....

Lewis Lakin, et al. 1:49.86 $217,000 III
2007 Good Mood Edgar Prado Patrick Biancone
Patrick Biancone
Patrick Louis Biancone is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He is currently based in the United States, but enjoyed success in both Europe and Hong Kong earlier in his career...

Flying Zee Stable 1:47.57 $228,600 III
2006 Lady of Venice Julien Leparoux
Julien Leparoux
Julien R. Leparoux is a Champion jockey currently racing in the United States.Leparoux, grew up in a racing family, the son of a jockey turned assistant trainer. He worked at the Chantilly Racecourse as a stable hand and in January 2003 emigrated to California to work as an exercise rider for...

Patrick Biancone
Patrick Biancone
Patrick Louis Biancone is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He is currently based in the United States, but enjoyed success in both Europe and Hong Kong earlier in his career...

Martin S. Schwartz 1:47.31 $229,000 III
2005 Rich In Spirit Gary Stevens Thomas F. Proctor
Thomas F. Proctor
Thomas F. Proctor is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses who won the 1994 edition of the Breeders' Cup Distaff with One Dreamer....

Glen Hill Farm 1:49.76 $225,000 III
2004 Sister Star Brice Blanc
Brice Blanc
Brice Blanc is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Blanc attended a jockey's apprentice school in his native France then, encouraged by trainer Ben Cecil, in October 1993 emigrated to the United States where he settled in Southern California and began racing at area tracks...

Kenneth McPeek
Kenneth McPeek
Kenneth G. McPeek is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Kenneth G. McPeek was born August 2, 1962 in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. He graduated from Tates Creek High School and then the University of Kentucky with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration...

John & Julie Marker 1:51.40 $221,800 III
2003 Sand Springs Mark Guidry
Mark Guidry
Mark Guidry is a retired American jockey.He began his riding career in Thoroughbred horse racing in his native Louisiana in 1974 where he remained until 1986 when he went to race in Illinois. He was the leading jockey at Hawthorne Race Course seven times, Sportsman's Park nine times, and two...

Anthony L. Reinstedler Willmott Stables 1:48.78 $231,000 III
2002 Distant Valley Jerry Bailey Niall O'Callaghan Gary A. Tanaka 1:42.71 $169,050 III
2001 Casual Feat Larry Melancon
Larry Melancon
Larry J. Melancon is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who rides primarily on the Kentucky-Arkansas circuit....

Steve Penrod
Steve Penrod
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Hidaway Farm 1:42.75 $167,250 III
2000 Solvig Pat Day
Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day is an American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991...

Carl Nafzger
Carl Nafzger
Carl A. Nafzger is an American Hall of Fame horse trainer. Before he was involved in horseracing he was a championship Rodeo bullrider....

Bentley Smith Revocable Trust 1:42.95 $168,450 III
1999 Nani Rose Shane Sellers
Shane Sellers
Shane Jude Sellers is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. At age eleven, he began working around horses and in 1983 rode his first winner at Evangeline Downs....

Patrick B. Byrne
Patrick B. Byrne
Patrick B. Byrne is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer who has won three Breeders' Cup races and who in 1997 conditioned Favorite Trick to American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and American Horse of the Year honors and Countess Diana to American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly honors.A native of...

Stonerside Stable
Stonerside Stable
Stonerside Stable is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding farm and horse racing operation in Paris, Kentucky. Until September 2008 it was owned by Robert and Janice McNair, who also own the National Football League team, the Houston Texans...

1:42.40 $168,450 III
1998 Formal Tango Charles R. Woods, Jr. Albert Stall, Jr. David J. Hulkewicz 1:48.73 $170,850
1997 Starry Dreamer Willie Martinez
Willie Martinez (jockey)
Willie Martinez is a jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing.Martinez was born in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, but emigrated to the United States in 1988 to work as a hotwalker and groom for his sister's godfather at Finger Lakes Race Track in Farmington, New York...

C. R. McGaughey III H. Joseph Allen
H. Joseph Allen
H. Joseph Allen is an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.A graduate of the University of Michigan, Allen is a partner with his cousin Peter M. Brant in the privately owned newsprint company, Brant-Allen Industries, Inc...

1:42.77 $111,900
1996 Daylight Come Curt Bourque
Curt Bourque
Curt C. Bourque is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He began his riding career in 1984 at Evangeline Downs in Lafayette, Louisiana and won his first race later that year at Jefferson Downs Racetrack....

Daniel J. Vella
Daniel J. Vella
Daniel J. "Dan" Vella is a Canadian Champion Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Dan Vella was introduced to Thoroughbred horse racing by an uncle who owned horses and, after graduating from High School, went to work at a racetrack in his native Toronto...

Frank Stronach
Frank Stronach
Frank Stronach, CM is an Austrian-Canadian businessman. He is the founder of Magna International, an international automotive parts company based in Aurora, Ontario, Canada, and Magna Entertainment Corp., which specializes in horse-racing entertainment...

1:45.72 $85,425
1995 Christmas Gift Charles R. Woods, Jr. Mark A. Hennig
Mark A. Hennig
Mark A. Hennig is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Born into a horse racing family, his father, John Hennig, was also a trainer. After working with his father, Mark Hennig became an assistant to Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas before going out on his own in 1991.-References:*...

Edward P. Evans 1:45.00 $83,400
1994 Packet J. M. Johnson Gary Hartlage Upson Downs Farm 1:42.14 $83,925
1993 Lovats Lady B. D. Peck Peter Perkins Wimborne Farm 1:42.95 $56,300
1992 Tiney Toast Aaron Gryder
Aaron Gryder
Aaron Tod Gryder is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.Growing up fifteen minutes away from the Santa Anita racetrack, as a boy Gryder had no contact with horses other than his father and his grandparents' interest in attending the nearby races...

John G. Locke Delwin Locke 1:44.40 $57,600
1991 Maria Balastiere S. Payton William I. Mott David Richardson & Hiram Polk, Jr. 1:44.40 $54,950
1990 Secret Advice B. E. Bartram W. Elliott Walden
W. Elliott Walden
W. Elliott Walden is the President and CEO of racing operations for WinStar Farm near Versailles, Kentucky and a former Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.From a racing family, Walden grew up in the industry...

Golden Oak Farm 1:44.40 $55,100
1989 Justice Will Come Steve H. Bass Herbert Stevens J. H. Gallagher 1:46.20 $56,450
1988 Lets Do Lunch K. K. Allen Lou M. Goldfine Richard Duchossois 1:45.60 $70,550
1987 Jonowo M. McDowell Burk Kessinger, Jr. R. Leniham 1:39.20 $57,100
1986 Rosemont Risk Pat Day
Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day is an American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991...

William I. Mott Rosemont Farm 1:36.80 $38,600
1985 Weekend Delight James McKnight Neil J. Howard
Neil J. Howard
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William S. Farish
William S. Farish
William Stamps Farish III is an American businessman and a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom .-Family and Early Life:...

1:35.60 $32,350
1984 Mrs. Revere Larry Melancon
Larry Melancon
Larry J. Melancon is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who rides primarily on the Kentucky-Arkansas circuit....

William I. Mott Hiram Polk, Jr. 1:36.60 $33,650
1983 Rosy Specttre James McKnight Eduardo Inda Tom Gentry 1:37.80 $30,800
1982 # Amazing Love Larry Melancon
Larry Melancon
Larry J. Melancon is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who rides primarily on the Kentucky-Arkansas circuit....

A. J. Foyt III A. J. Foyt, Jr. 1:37.00 $29675
1982 # Sefa's Beauty Mark Sellers Larry Edwards Farid Sefa 1:37.60 $29,450
1981 Contrefaire Tommy Barrow Robert S. DuBois Herbert H. Hill 1:11.60 $25,700
1980 # Forever Cordial Richard DePass John T. Ward, Jr.
John T. Ward, Jr.
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John Oxley
John Oxley
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1:12.00 $24,563
1980 # No No Nona Melvin A. Holland T. J. Walker Carl Swan 1:12.00 $23,692
1979 Fearless Dame Richard DePass Stanley M. Rieser Robert Courtney 1:10.80 $16,120
1978 Unconscious Doll Eddie Delahoussaye
Eddie Delahoussaye
Edward J. Delahoussaye is a retired American Thoroughbred jockey from New Iberia, Louisiana.He began his career in 1968 and ten years later became the top American jockey with 384 wins...

Ray Lawrence, Jr. C. C. Green 1:10.60 $14,853
1977 Shady Lou Eddie Delahoussaye
Eddie Delahoussaye
Edward J. Delahoussaye is a retired American Thoroughbred jockey from New Iberia, Louisiana.He began his career in 1968 and ten years later became the top American jockey with 384 wins...

R. J. Fischer Leslie Combs II 1:10.60 $14,528
1976 # Carmelita Gibbs Robert Breen D. M. Davis Don Sucher 1:12.80 $14,502
1976 # Confort Zone J. C. Espinoza Smiley Adams Golden Chance Farm 1:12.80 $14,113
1975 Red Cross Don Brumfield
Don Brumfield
Donald Alan Brumfield is a retired American jockey from Kentucky.During his thirty-five year career, Brumfield won 4,573 races in 33,222 rides. He retired from racing in 1989. Brumfield was the "track all-time leading rider in terms of races won " at Churchill Downs, where he won 16 riding titles...

C. R. Werstler Dixiana Stable 1:09.60 $15,242
1974 # Clemanna J. C. Espinoza Smiley Adams Golden Chance Farm 1:11.20 $14,763
1974 # Mary Dugan James McKnight Johnnie Johnson, Jr. Jackson, Trick, Bayne 1:10.40 $15,153
1973 Juke Joint W. Soirez Anthony Basile
Anthony Basile
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Bwamazon Farm 1:11.80 $15,535
1972 Nalees Folly Robert Breen Stanley M. Rieser Mr. S. Fairman, Jr. 1:11.80 $15,064
1971 Peninsula Princess M. Mangello R. J. Fischer Leslie Combs II 1:11.20 $15,778
1970 Three Pigeons Tommy Barrow P. B. Devereaux J. W. Greathouse 1:10.80 $15,778


a # signifies that the race was run in two divisions (1982, 1980, 1976, 1974)
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