# Harrison E. Johnson Memorial Handicap

The Harrison E. Johnson Memorial Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in March at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. It is open to three-year-olds and up and is run at 1+1⁄8 miles (nine furlongs) on the dirt. An ungraded stakes race, it offers a purse of $100,000. The stake will run this year on Saturday, March 17, 2018.
The race was named in honor of African-American trainer Harrison E. Johnson, a Maryland-based trainer who died in 1985 at age 45 in a plane crash along with George F. Griffith while flying from Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York to Virginia. Johnson was piloting the plane. The native of Adelphi, Maryland, had been a trainer since the spring of 1969. His best race horse was Gutsy O'Shay, winner of the 1973 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga. That gelding was named Maryland-bred two-year-old champion in 1973.

## Records

Speed record:
* 1+1⁄8 miles - 1:48.60 - Ibex (1993)
* 1+3⁄16 miles - 1:55.80 - Big Rut (1998) & Super Memory (1995)
Most wins by an horse:
* 2 - Due North (1990 & 1991)
Most wins by a jockey:
* 4 - Edgar Prado (1990, 1993, 1996 & 1997)
Most wins by a trainer:
* 2 - H. Graham Motion (2008 & 2009)
* 2 - Katherine M. Voss (1990 & 1991)

## Winners of the Harrison E. Johnson Memorial Stakes

| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Dist. (Miles) | Time | Purse$ |
| 2022 | | - | | | | 1+1⁄8 | 0:00.00 | $100,000 |
| 2021 | Cordmaker | 6 | Victor R. Carrasco | Rodney Jenkins | Hillwood Stable LLC | 1+1⁄8 | 1:49.37 | $100,000 |
| 2020 | Senior Investment | 6 | Emmanuel Esquivel | Scott A. Lake | Richard Malouf | 1+1⁄8 | 1:50.96 | $100,000 |
| 2019 | Cordmaker | 4 | Victor R. Carrasco | Rodney Jenkins | Hillwood Stables | 1+1⁄8 | 1:50.29 | $100,000 |
| 2018 | Something Awesome | 7 | Edgar Prado | Jose Corrales | Stronach Stables | 1+1⁄8 | 1:50.86 | $100,000 |
| 2017 | Matt King Coal | 4 | Victor Carrasco | Linda L. Rice | Lady Shelia Stable | 1+1⁄8 | 1:51.07 | $100,000 |
| 2016 | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held |
| 2015 | Page McKenney | 5 | Horacio Karamanos | Mary E. Eppler | Staple/Jalin Stable | 1+1⁄8 | 1:50.88 | $100,000 |
| 2014 | Ground Transport | 4 | Trevor McCarthy | Michael H. Stidham | West Point Thoroughbreds | 1+1⁄8 | 1:52.17 | $100,000 |
| 2013 | Norman Asbjornson | 5 | Jeremy Rose | Christopher Grove | Tom McClay & Harry Nye | 1+1⁄8 | 1:51.77 | $125,000 |
| 2012 | Eighttofasttocatch | 6 | Sheldon Russell | Timothy Keefe | Sylvia Heft | 1+1⁄8 | 1:53.43 | $100,000 |
| 2011 | Eighttofasttocatch | 5 | Sheldon Russell | Timothy Keefe | Sylvia Heft | 1+1⁄8 | 1:50.30 | $75,000 |
| 2010 | Indian Dance | 4 | Luis Garcia | Lawrence Murray | Sondra Bender | 1+1⁄8 | 1:51.04 | $70,000 |
| 2009 | Bullsbay | 5 | Jeremy Rose | H. Graham Motion | Mitchell Ranch | 1+1⁄8 | 1:50.33 | $75,000 |
| 2008 | Arcata | 4 | Jeremy Rose | H. Graham Motion | Mark Westenhoefer | 1+1⁄8 | 1:53.00 | $60,000 |
| 2007 | Sweetnorthernsaint | 4 | Mario Pino | Michael Trombetta | Joe Balsamo & Ted Theos | 1+1⁄8 | 1:51.20 | $75,000 |
| 2006 | Reckless Ways | 5 | Anna Napravnik | Edmond Gaudet | Lacey Gaudet | 1+1⁄8 | 1:50.60 | $75,000 |
| 2005 | Lusty Latin | 6 | Erick Rodriguez | Mark Shuman | Al Bingel | 1+1⁄8 | 1:52.00 | $50,000 |
| 2004 | Jorgie Stover | 6 | Kaymarie Kreidel | John Alecci | Michael Gill | 1+1⁄8 | 1:49.40 | $75,000 |
| 2003 | P Day | 8 | Ryan Fogelsonger | Charles Hadry | Cheryl Resch | 1+1⁄8 | 1:49.40 | $75,000 |
| 2002 | First Amendment | 5 | Ramon Dominguez | Mark Shuman | Bonita Farm | 1+1⁄8 | 1:49.20 | $50,000 |
| 2001 | Duckhorn | 4 | Travis Dunkelberger | Patrick B. Byrne | Windmill Manor Farms | 1+1⁄4 | 2:00.60 | $85,000 |
| 2000 | S W Clarence | 6 | Rick Wilson | Thomas Lingenfelter | Springwater Farms | 1+3⁄16 | 1:56.20 | $75,000 |
| 1999 | Fred Bear Claw | 5 | Larry Reynolds | Archie Smith, Jr. | J R Stable | 1+3⁄16 | 1:56.60 | $55,000 |
| 1998 | Big Rut | 5 | Larry Reynolds | Hamilton Smith | James W. Peters, Jr. | 1+3⁄16 | 1:55.80 | $55,000 |
| 1997 | Western Echo | 5 | Edgar Prado | Grover Delp | Xanthus Farm | 1+3⁄16 | 1:57.20 | $75,000 |
| 1996 | Michael's Star | 4 | Edgar Prado | Guadalipe Preciado | Hidden Lane Farm | 1+3⁄16 | 1:56.80 | $75,000 |
| 1995 | Super Memory | 5 | Omar Klinger | King T. Leatherbury | King T. Leatherbury | 1+3⁄16 | 1:55.80 | $75,000 |
| 1994 | Local Problem | 5 | Allen Stacy | Mary Eppler | Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. | 1+1⁄8 | 1:49.60 | $75,000 |
| 1993 | Ibex | 6 | Edgar Prado | Gary Capuano | Dylan Williams | 1+1⁄8 | 1:48.60 | $75,000 |
| 1992 | Gala Spinaway | 4 | Greg McCarron | Bernard P. Bond | Gertrude & Skip Leviton | 1+1⁄8 | 1:51.00 | $75,000 |
| 1991 | Due North | 9 | Rick Wilson | Katherine M. Voss | Susan McGill | 1+1⁄8 | 1:51.00 | $75,000 |
| 1990 | Due North | 8 | Edgar Prado | Katherine M. Voss | Susan McGill | 1+1⁄8 | 1:51.60 | $75,000 |
| 1989 | Baldski's Choice | 5 | Greg McCarron | Bernard P. Bond | Arnold & Sylvia E. Heft | 1+1⁄8 | 1:51.00 | $57,500 |
| 1988 | Entertain | 5 | Vincent Bracciale | | Kumpe & Pullen | 1+1⁄8 | 1:51.60 | $60,000 |
| 1987 | Midnight Call | 4 | Mario Pino | | William M. Backer | 1-mile | 1:37.20 | $60,000 |
| 1986 | Sparrowvon | 4 | Alberto Delgado | Hank Allen | Jacque-Scott Stable | 1-mile | 1:37.00 | $60,000 |