The Wadsworth Memorial Handicap 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...

 race for three year olds and up of either gender set at a distance of one and one eighth miles on the dirt. Run at Finger Lakes Race Track

Finger Lakes Gaming and Race Track

Finger Lakes Gaming and Race Track is a thoroughbred horse-racing track and racino located in Farmington in western New York State, approximately 25 miles southeast of Rochester. The facility is about one mile south of New York State Thruway exit 44....

  on the 4th of July each year (the track is 46 years old in 2007), the Wadsworth is an ungraded stakes

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...

 race offering a purse of $50,000.

In 2007, in order to attract the dual classic winner (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...

 & Preakness Stakes

Preakness Stakes

The Preakness Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs on dirt. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds ; fillies 121 lb...

), Funny Cide

Funny Cide

Funny Cide is a Thoroughbred race horse who won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in 2003. He is the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby and the first gelding to win since Clyde Van Dusen in 1929.-Bloodlines:...

, to the 31st running of the Wadsworth, Finger Lake Race Track raised the purse to $100,000.

The Wadsworth will be in its 35th running in 2010.

Past winners

• 2009 - Sweetnorthernsaint
  Sweetnorthernsaint
  Sweetnorthernsaint is a Thoroughbred race horse. A Florida foal of March 2003, he was a top contender for the Triple Crown in 2006. Late in his two year-old season he was very hard to handle, so much so that they could not get him to focus enough to train on the track and his owners made the...
  
   (John Davila Jr.)
• 2008 - Rises the Phoenix
• 2007 – Funny Cide
  Funny Cide
  Funny Cide is a Thoroughbred race horse who won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in 2003. He is the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby and the first gelding to win since Clyde Van Dusen in 1929.-Bloodlines:...
  
   (Alan Garcia
  Alan Garcia (jockey)
  Alan Garcia is a thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He was Peru's leading apprentice jockey in 2003 and in that same year he began racing in the United States at the Meadowlands Racetrack where he was also the leading apprentice. His father and grandfather were both jockeys in Peru...
  
  ) (1:51.77)
• 2006 – Johnie Bye Night
• 2005 - Sinister G
• 2004 - Dulce de Leche (Joe Badamo)
• 2003 - Right Stop
• 2002 - Toddler
• 2001 - Woodwork
• 2000 - Turbulent Spirit, Salish Prince - (dead heat)
• 1999 - Missionary Monk
• 1998 - Cherokee Reef
• 1997 - C B Account
• 1996 - Rosie's Buddy
• 1995 - Le Frisky
• 1994 - Baron Von Blixen
• 1993 - Dangerous Dawn
• 1992 - Dangerous Dawn
• 1991 - Brave Beast
• 1990 - Sea Hunter
• 1989 - Matthew's Moment
• 1988 - Lord Penguin
• 1987 - Lord Penguin
• 1986 - Spruce Arrow
• 1985 - Last Tactic
• 1984 - Org
• 1982 - The Boy Mikey
• 1981 - Captain Pat
• 1980 - Fio Rito
• 1979 - Helpful Henry
• 1978 - Bout
• 1975 - Sole Image
• 1974 - Nashem Bay