The Spindrift Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies. There are two forms of the sport: Flat racing and National Hunt racing...

 run annually between 1886 and 1909 at Sheepshead Bay Race Track

Sheepshead Bay Race Track

Sheepshead Bay Race Track was an American Thoroughbred horse racing facility built on the site of the Coney Island Jockey Club at Sheepshead Bay, New York...

 at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn

Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn

Sheepshead Bay is a bay separating the mainland of Brooklyn, New York City from the eastern portion of Coney Island, the latter originally a barrier island but now effectively an extension of the mainland with peninsulas both east and west...

, New York

New York

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. A race for three-year-olds, it was contested on dirt over a distance of 1¼ miles (10 furlong

Furlong

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s) from 1886–1892 and at 1⅛ miles (9 furlongs) from 1893 through 1909.

The race ended with the closure of the Coney Island Jockey Club's racetrack, brought on by the State legislature's

New York Legislature

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 enactment of the Hart-Agnew Law.

Records

Speed record:

• 1:51.80 - Fashion Plate (1909) (at 1⅛ miles)
• 2:09.40 - Sir John (1890) (at 1¼ miles)

Most wins by a jockey

Jockey

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:

• 2 - Henry Spencer (1899, 1900)

Most wins by a trainer

Horse trainer

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:

• 4 - James G. Rowe, Sr. (1888, 1903, 1906, 1907)

Most wins by an owner:

• 2 - Dwyer Brothers Stable
  Dwyer Brothers Stable
  Dwyer Brothers Stable was an American thoroughbred horse racing operation owned by Brooklyn, New York businessmen, Phil and Mike Dwyer.The Dwyer brothers hired trainer Evert Snedecker and purchased their first Thoroughbred, Rhadamanthus, in 1874. In October of that same year they acquired Vigil...
  
   (1887, 1890)
• 2 - Samuel S. Brown
  Samuel S. Brown
  Captain Samuel Smith Brown was an American businessman and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder and racetrack owner....
  
   & John W. Rogers (1892, 1893)
• 2 - James R. Keene
  James R. Keene
  James Robert Keene was a Wall Street stock broker and a major thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder.-Biography:He was born in London, England in 1838. He was fourteen years of age when his family emigrated to the United States in 1852...
  
   (1906, 1907)

Winners

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
1909	Fashion Plate	Henry Smith	William H. Karrick	Oneck Stable	1:51.80
1908	Firestone	Walter Miller Walter Miller (jockey) Walter Miller was an American jockey.Miller was Jewish, and was born in Brooklyn, New York.He rode in his first race at age 14. At the age of 16, he won 388 races , and between the years 1905 and 1908 he won 1,094 races. He led the U.S...	Dr. H. E. Rowell	Thomas H. Williams	1:53.20
1907	Cabochon	Lowe	James G. Rowe, Sr.	James R. Keene James R. Keene James Robert Keene was a Wall Street stock broker and a major thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder.-Biography:He was born in London, England in 1838. He was fourteen years of age when his family emigrated to the United States in 1852...	1:53.40
1906	Kuroki	Willie Shaw	James G. Rowe, Sr.	James R. Keene James R. Keene James Robert Keene was a Wall Street stock broker and a major thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder.-Biography:He was born in London, England in 1838. He was fourteen years of age when his family emigrated to the United States in 1852...	1:53.80
1905	Oiseau	Frank O'Neill	Matthew M. Allen	Diamond Jim Brady	1:53.60
1904	Highball	George Odom George M. Odom George Martin Odom was an American National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame jockey and trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. He is only one of two people to ever have won the Belmont Stakes as both a jockey and a trainer....	John W. May	Walter M. Scheftel	1:54.00
1903	Injunction	Willie Gannon	James G. Rowe, Sr.	Foxhall P. Keene Foxhall P. Keene Foxhall Parker Keene was an American thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder, a World and Olympic Gold Medallist in polo. He was rated the best all-around polo player in the United States for eight consecutive years, a golfer who competed in the U.S...	1:52.80
1902	Ranald	Otto Wonderly Otto Wonderly Otto Wonderly was a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey from Ontario who competed in his native Canada and in the United States where he was killed in a racing accident....	Charles S. Littlefield, Jr.	James B. A. Haggin	1:54.20
1901	Gold Heels Gold Heels Gold Heels was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who, in a two-year period, set one new stakers record and four track records, including a world record.-Background:...	Winfield O'Connor	Matthew M. Allen	Jim Brady & Fred C. McLewee	1:52.40
1900	Prince of Melbourne	Henry Spencer	J. A. Kyle	Col. Frank D. Beard	1:53.60
1899	Ethelbert	Henry Spencer	A. Jack Joyner A. Jack Joyner Andrew Jackson "Jack" Joyner was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame trainer and owner.Known as "Jack" and reported as "A.J." and "A. Jack," Joyner was born in Enfield, North Carolina, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Joyner...	Perry Belmont Perry Belmont Perry Belmont was an American politician and diplomat.-Biography:He was born on December 28, 1851 in New York City to August Belmont. His brothers were Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont and August Belmont, Jr....	1:55.40
1898	Sailor King	Danny Maher	Walter B. Jennings	Walter B. Jennings	1:55.40
1897	On Deck	Fred Taral Fred Taral Fred Taral was an American Hall of Fame jockey.Taral began his career in racing in the 1880s at small racetracks in Oklahoma. By 1889 he was among the 24-member jockey colony at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans and competed in his first Kentucky Derby...	Julius Bauer	Bromley & Co.	1:56.40
1896	Formal	Fred Littlefield	R. Wyndham Walden	Alfred Alfred Hennen Morris Alfred Hennen Morris was an American businessman politician, and racehorse owner/breeder.The son of Louisiana Lottery "king" John Albert Morris and his wife Cora Hennen, he was named for his maternal grandfather, Judge Alfred Hennen, of New Orleans, a Justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court.In...  & David Morris David Hennen Morris David Hennen "Dave" Morris was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Thoroughbred racehorse owner who co-founded the International Auxiliary Language Association ....	1:56.00
1895	Bright Phoebus	Lester Reiff Lester Reiff Lester Berchart Reiff was an American jockey who achieved racing acclaim in the United Kingdom in the first decade of the twentieth century...	Charles S. Littlefield, Jr.	Del Monte Stable	1:57.20
1894	Henry of Navarre Henry of Navarre (horse) Henry of Navarre was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. Sired by the 1884 Preakness Stakes winner Knight of Ellerslie he was named for the Huguenot king, Henry IV of France....	Samuel Doggett	Byron McClelland Byron McClelland Byron McClelland was an American Thoroughbred horse racing owner and trainer. An African American, he was one of the best known horsemen of his era who won the three races that would eventually constitute the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing series.Born in Lexington, Kentucky,...	Byron McClelland Byron McClelland Byron McClelland was an American Thoroughbred horse racing owner and trainer. An African American, he was one of the best known horsemen of his era who won the three races that would eventually constitute the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing series.Born in Lexington, Kentucky,...	1:56.20
1893	Glenmoyne	Willie Simms Willie Simms Willie Simms was an American Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse racing jockey....	John W. Rogers	Samuel S. Brown Samuel S. Brown Captain Samuel Smith Brown was an American businessman and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder and racetrack owner....  & John W. Rogers	1:54.80
1892	Pickpocket	Fred Taral Fred Taral Fred Taral was an American Hall of Fame jockey.Taral began his career in racing in the 1880s at small racetracks in Oklahoma. By 1889 he was among the 24-member jockey colony at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans and competed in his first Kentucky Derby...	John W. Rogers	Samuel S. Brown Samuel S. Brown Captain Samuel Smith Brown was an American businessman and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder and racetrack owner....  & John W. Rogers	2:11.40
1891	Potomac	Anthony Hamilton	Hardy Campbell, Jr. Hardy Campbell, Jr. Hardy Campbell, Jr. was an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer and Standardbred horse owner. Hardy Campbell, Sr. was involved in horse racing, and Hardy Jr. spent his life around and in the business. He became head stable lad for Dwyer Brothers Stable in Brooklyn, New York, one of the top...	Michael F. Dwyer Michael F. Dwyer Michael F. Dwyer was an American businessman from Brooklyn, New York and prominent owner of Thoroughbred racehorses and racetracks...	2:11.00
1890	Sir John	Martin Bergen	Frank McCabe Frank McCabe Frank Reilly McCabe was an American basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. McCabe played collegiately at Marquette University....	Dwyer Brothers Stable Dwyer Brothers Stable Dwyer Brothers Stable was an American thoroughbred horse racing operation owned by Brooklyn, New York businessmen, Phil and Mike Dwyer.The Dwyer brothers hired trainer Evert Snedecker and purchased their first Thoroughbred, Rhadamanthus, in 1874. In October of that same year they acquired Vigil...	2:09.40
1889	My Fellow	William Donohue	Charles S. Littlefield, Sr.	Charles S. Littlefield, Sr.	2:10.20
1888	Raceland Raceland (horse) Raceland was an American Champion Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. Out of the mare Calomel, his British sire, Billet, was imported to stand at stud in the United States where in 1883 he was the Leading sire in North America. Grandsire Voltigeur won England's Epsom Derby and St. Leger Stakes in...	Godfrey	James G. Rowe, Sr.	August Belmont August Belmont August Belmont, Sr. was an American politician.-Early life:August Belmont was born in Alzey, Hesse, on December 8, 1813--some sources say 1816--to Simon and Frederika Elsass Schönberg, a Jewish family. After his mother's death, when he was seven, he lived with his uncle and grandmother in Frankfurt...	2:12.00
1887	Hanover Hanover (thoroughbred horse) Hanover was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse that won his first 17 race starts. He was the only American stallion to head the Leading sire in North America list for four consecutive years until Bold Ruler did so in 1965.-Background:...	Jim McLaughlin Jim McLaughlin James "Jim" McLaughlin was an American thoroughbred race horse jockey.Orphaned and homeless in his early teens, McLaughlin was taken in by horse trainer William Daly who taught him how to ride. While individual statistics from all of McLaughlin's career races aren't documented, McLaughlin began...	Frank McCabe Frank McCabe Frank Reilly McCabe was an American basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. McCabe played collegiately at Marquette University....	Dwyer Brothers Stable Dwyer Brothers Stable Dwyer Brothers Stable was an American thoroughbred horse racing operation owned by Brooklyn, New York businessmen, Phil and Mike Dwyer.The Dwyer brothers hired trainer Evert Snedecker and purchased their first Thoroughbred, Rhadamanthus, in 1874. In October of that same year they acquired Vigil...	2:11.25
1886	The Bard The Bard (horse) The Bard was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He was the most popular horse of his day and one who raced and beat all the top horses. Bred by Charles Reed, owner of the Fairview Stud Farm in Gallatin, Tennessee, his dam was Bradamante and his sire was the U.S...	John Fisher	John Huggins	Mr. Kelso	2:09.50