# Walden Stakes

The Walden Stakes is a discontinued Thoroughbred horse race run from 1906 through 1948 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. Raced on dirt, the event was open to two-year-olds horses of either sex. The race was named in honor of Maryland-based trainer and owner Wyndham Walden, a Hall of Fame inductee who won eleven American Classic Races, capturing the Preakness Stakes seven times and the Belmont Stakes four times.
For the first three years the Walden Stakes was contested at a distance of six furlongs, but because it was run in November it was changed in 1909 to one mile so that the year's top class juvenile horses would be tested at a longer distance with a view to their upcoming three-year-old season when races at a mile and longer would be commonplace. Among those top class two-year-olds who won the Walden Stakes were U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductees Reigh Count (1927) and his son Count Fleet (1943), Whirlaway (1940), and Alsab (1941). Reigh Count went on to win the 1929 Kentucky Derby, Alsab finished second in the 1942 Kentucky Derby, and both Whirlaway and Count Fleet won the U.S. Triple Crown series. In addition, the 1930 Walden Stakes winner Mate went on to win the 1931 Preakness Stakes.
Race distances:
* 1 1/16 miles : 1928-1948
* 1 mile : 1909-1927
* 6 furlongs : 1906-1908
In 1923, the Walden Stakes was run in two divisions.

## Records

Speed record:
* 1 mile: 1:39 2/5, Senator Norris (1923)
* 1 1/16 miles: 1:43 flat, Stone Age (1948)
Most wins by a jockey:
* 2 - Tommy McTaggart (1912, 1915)
* 2 - Johnny Loftus (1917, 1918)
* 2 - Laverne Fator (1919, 1928)
* 2 - Don Meade (1932, 1933)
* 2 - Wayne Wright (1934, 1935)
* 2 - Johnny Longden (1938, 1942)
Most wins by a trainer:
* 3 - Sam Hildreth (1910, 1919, 1923)
* 3 - Max Hirsch (1926, 1931, 1947)
* 3 - Ben A. Jones (1938, 1940, 1946)
Most wins by an owner:
* 3 - George D. Widener Jr. (1916, 1933, 1943)

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Dist. (Miles) / (Furlongs) | Time |
| 1948 | Stone Age | Nick Combest | William C. Winfrey | Alfred G. Vanderbilt II | 11⁄16 M | 1:43.00 |
| 1947 | Gasparilla | Warren Mehrtens | Max Hirsch | Arthur J. Sackett | 11⁄16 M | 1:49.00 |
| 1946 | Fervent | Douglas Dodson | Ben A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 11⁄16 M | 1:45.80 |
| 1945 | Colony Boy | John Gilbert | Tom Smith | Maine Chance Farm | 11⁄16 M | 1:50.60 |
| 1944 | Rick's Raft | Nick Jemas | Edward L. Snyder | William G. Helis Sr. | 11⁄16 M | 1:45.80 |
| 1943 | Platter | Conn McCreary | Winbert F. Mulholland | George D. Widener Jr. | 11⁄16 M | 1:48.60 |
| 1942 | Count Fleet | Johnny Longden | Don Cameron | Fannie Hertz | 11⁄16 M | 1:44.80 |
| 1941 | Alsab | Robert Vedder | Sarge Swenke | Albert Sabath | 11⁄16 M | 1:44.60 |
| 1940 | Whirlaway | George Woolf | Ben A. Jones | Calumet Farm | 11⁄16 M | 1:52.20 |
| 1939 | Faymar | Joseph Renick | James W. Smith | Dixiana Stable | 11⁄16 M | 1:46.00 |
| 1938 | Inscoelda | Johnny Longden | Ben A. Jones | Woolford Farm | 11⁄16 M | 1:49.00 |
| 1937 | Nedayr | Eddie Arcaro | William A. Crawford | Willis Sharpe Kilmer | 11⁄16 M | 1:45.80 |
| 1936 | Brooklyn | Silvio Coucci | Herbert J. Thompson | Edward R. Bradley | 11⁄16 M | 1:47.20 |
| 1935 | Ned Reigh | Wayne Wright | Henry McDaniel | Willis Sharpe Kilmer | 11⁄16 M | 1:49.80 |
| 1934 | Firethorn | Wayne Wright | Preston M. Burch | Walter M. Jeffords Sr. | 11⁄16 M | 1:46.20 |
| 1933 | Chicstraw | Don Meade | A. Jack Joyner | George D. Widener Jr. | 11⁄16 M | 1:44.60 |
| 1932 | War Glory | Don Meade | George H. Conway | Glen Riddle Farm | 11⁄16 M | 1:50.20 |
| 1931 | On Post | Joe Renick | Max Hirsch | Loma Stable (Mrs. Louis G. Kaufman) | 11⁄16 M | 1:45.40 |
| 1930 | Mate | George Ellis | James W. Healy | Albert C. Bostwick Jr. | 11⁄16 M | 1:46.60 |
| 1929 | Ned O | Charlie Quattlebaum | George W. Foreman | George W. Foreman | 11⁄16 M | 1:47.60 |
| 1928 | Twink | Laverne Fator | James W. Healy | Loma Stable (Mrs. Louis G. Kaufman) | 11⁄16 M | 1:46.00 |
| 1927 | Reigh Count | Chick Lang | Bert S. Michell | Fannie Hertz | 1 M | 1:41.00 |
| 1926 | Rip Rap | Steve O'Donnell | Max Hirsch | Sage Stable (H. W. & A. G. Sage) | 1 M | 1:41.00 |
| 1925 | Mars | Harry Richards | Robert Augustus Smith | Walter M. Jeffords Sr. | 1 M | 1:42.00 |
| 1924 | Single Foot | Charles Fairbrother | Harry Rites | J. Edwin Griffith | 1 M | 1:39.80 |
| 1923-1 | Stanwix | Mark Fator | Sam Hildreth | Rancocas Stable | 1 M | 1:39.80 |
| 1923-2 | Senator Norris | Bennie Breuning | H. Guy Bedwell | Kenton Stable | 1 M | 1:39.40 |
| 1922 | Oui Oui | William Pool | William D. Covington | Montfort & B. B. Jones | 1 M | 1:40.20 |
| 1921 | Relay | Lewis Morris | James E. Fitzsimmons | Quincy Stable | 1 M | 1:44.20 |
| 1920 | Idle Dell | John Callahan | Scott P. Harlan | Lawrence Waterbury II | 1 M | 1:40.40 |
| 1919 | Dominique | Laverne Fator | Sam Hildreth | Sam Hildreth | 1 M | 1:42.00 |
| 1918 | War Pennant | Johnny Loftus | H. Guy Bedwell | J. K. L. Ross | 1 M | 1:40.40 |
| 1917 | War Cloud | Johnny Loftus | Walter B. Jennings | A. Kingsley Macomber | 1 M | 1:41.40 |
| 1916 | Columbine | Eddie Ambrose | A. Jack Joyner | George D. Widener Jr. | 1 M | 1:41.00 |
| 1915 | Colonel Vennie Ŧ | Tommy McTaggart | M. Preston | Jefferson Livingston | 1 M | 1:42.00 |
| 1914 | Double Eagle | Charles Burlingame | Stephen J. Lawler | Quincy Stable | 1 M | 1:40.60 |
| 1913 | Superintendent | Buddy Glass | Clarence Merritt | James F. Mannix | 1 M | 1:41.80 |
| 1912 | Ten Point | Tommy McTaggart | Calvin Banks | Anthony L. Aste | 1 M | 1:40.00 |
| 1911 | Penobscot | James Diggins | Thomas J. Healey | Richard T. Wilson Jr. | 1 M | 1:41.80 |
| 1910 | Zeus | Carroll H. Shilling | Sam Hildreth | Sam Hildreth | 1 M | 1:46.60 |
| 1909 | Fauntleroy | Joe McCahey | Robert J. Walden | Mrs.R. W. Walden | 1 M | 1:40.60 |
| 1908 | Trance | David Nicol | George M. Odom | George M. Odom | 6 F | 1:13.00 |
| 1907 | Jubilee | Bub McCabe | Fred Littlefield | Fred Littlefield | 6 F | 1:15.00 |
| 1906 | Orphan Lad | Jimmy Dennison | William M. Garth | David Dunlop | 6 F | 1:14.25 |
* Ŧ - In the November 6, 1915 race Celandria finished first but was disqualified.