# McLennan Handicap

The McLennan Handicap was an American thoroughbred horse race run annually each February from 1934–1961 at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida. First run in 1934 as the Joseph McLennan Memorial Handicap, the race was named In honor of the late Joseph "Sandy" McLennan, the former racing secretary at Hialeah Park and at Chicago's Arlington Park who died in December 1933. In winning the first edition in 1934, Col. Edward R. Bradley's Blessed Event equaled the world record for a mile and an eighth on dirt. In 1938 the race name was shortened to the McLennan Memorial Handicap and shortened again in 1948 to the McLennan Handicap.
In 1941 the race had twenty-five entries and had to be run in two divisions.

## Records

Speed record:
* Spartan Valor - 1:47.20
Most wins by a jockey:
* 2 - James Stout (1938, 1952)
* 2 - Ted Atkinson (1944, 1949)
Most wins by a trainer:
* 5 - Horace A. Jones (1947, 1949, 1958, 1960, 1961)
Most wins by an owner:
* 6 - Calumet Farm (1944, 1947, 1949, 1958, 1960, 1961)

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Dist. (Miles) | Time |
| 1961 | Yorky | 4 | Johnny Sellers | Horace A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.00 |
| 1960 | On-and-On | 4 | Steve Brooks | Horace A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.80 |
| 1959 | Sharpsburg | 6 | Howard Grant | Tony Puglisi | Roy E. Faircloth | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.00 |
| 1958 | Iron Liege | 4 | Bill Hartack | Horace A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.00 |
| 1957 | Summer Tan | 5 | David Erb | Sherrill W. Ward | Dorothy Firestone Galbreath | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.80 |
| 1956 | Switch On | 5 | Bobby Ussery | John A. Nerud | Gerald S. Colella | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.40 |
| 1955 | Social Outcast | 5 | Eric Guerin | William C. Winfrey | Alfred G. Vanderbilt II | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.40 |
| 1954 | Elixir | 6 | Sam Boulmetis | David J. Schneider | David J. Schneider | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.00 |
| 1953 | Crafty Admiral | 5 | Kenny Church | Robert B. Odom | Charfran Stable (Charles & Frances Cohen) | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:53.40 |
| 1952 | Spartan Valor | 4 | James Stout | Frank Catrone | William G. Helis Jr. | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:47.20 |
| 1951 | Gangway | 6 | Logan Batcheller | Paul L. Kelley | Paul L. Kelley | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.40 |
| 1950 | Three Rings | 5 | Hedley Woodhouse | Willie Knapp | Evelyn L. Hopkins | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:50.20 |
| 1949 | Coaltown | 4 | Ted Atkinson | Horace A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.40 |
| 1948 | El Mono | 4 | Porter Roberts | Roscoe Troxler | Daniel Lamont | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.40 |
| 1947 | Armed | 6 | Douglas Dodson | Horace A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:50.00 |
| 1946 | Concordian | 4 | Joe Renick | Robert B. Odom | Barney A. Murphy | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.60 |
| 1945 | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held |
| 1944 | Sun Again | 5 | Ted Atkinson | Ben A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:52.20 |
| 1943 | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held | Race not held |
| 1942 | Market Wise | 4 | Wendell Eads | George Carroll | Louis Tufano | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:50.80 |
| 1941 | Haltal | 4 | Conn McCreary | Steve Judge | Woodvale Farm | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.00 |
| 1941 | Big Pebble | 5 | George Seabo | William B. Finnegan | Circle M Ranch | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.80 |
| 1940 | Many Stings | 5 | Ruperto Donoso | Mose Shapoff | Leo J. Marks | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:50.60 |
| 1939 | Stagehand | 4 | Jack Westrope | Earl Sande | H. Maxwell Howard | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.20 |
| 1938 | Piccolo | 5 | James Stout | Walter A. Carter | R. A. Moore | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:50.60 |
| 1937 | Finance | 5 | Charles Kurtsinger | Bert S. Michell | Mrs. Emil Denemark | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.80 |
| 1936 | Sablin | 4 | John Longden | Frank Gilpin | Edward F. Seagram | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.20 |
| 1935 | Stand Pat | 4 | John Gilbert | Frank Gilpin | Edward F. Seagram | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:49.20 |
| 1934 | Blessed Event | 3 | Don Meade | Herbert J. Thompson | Edward R. Bradley | 1+1⁄8 m. | 1:48.40 |