# Bay Shore Handicap

The Bay Shore Handicap is a discontinued Thoroughbred horse race run from 1925 through 1955 at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York City. The race was open to horses age three and older and run on dirt. From 1956 to 1959 there was no Bay Shore Handicap but in 1960 Aqueduct Racetrack created the Bay Shore Handicap/Stakes as a race for three-year-olds.
The 1940 race was won by Jacomar, recorded as being owned by Mrs. E. Graham Lewis. Better known as the highly successful cosmetics magnate Elizabeth Arden, she would establish Maine Chance Farm three years later and build it into one of the most successful breeding and racing operations of that era.
The 1943 and 1944 Bay Shore Handicap winners, Wait A Bit and Brownie, were two of the three horses involved in the only triple dead heat on record in a Thoroughbred stakes race when they joined Bossuet to win the 1944 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack.

## Records

Speed record: (at 7 furlongs)
* 1:22.40 - Wait A Bit (1943)
Most wins:
* No horse ever won this race more than once
Most wins by a jockey:
* 3 - Eric Guerin (1944, 1949, 1952)
Most wins by a trainer:
* 3 - James E. Fitzsimmons (1929, 1933, 1945)
Most wins by an owner:
* 2 - Alfred G. Vanderbilt II (1949, 1952)
* 2 - Belair Stud (1933, 1945)
* 2 - Greentree Stable (1939, 1948)
* 2 - Rancocas Stable (1925, 1927)
* 2 - William L. Brann (1941, 1946)

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Dist. (F) | Time |
| 1955 | Red Hannigan | 4 | Eddie Arcaro | Homer C. Pardue | Woodley Lane Farm | 7 F | 1:24.00 |
| 1954 | Joe Jones | 4 | Conn McCreary | Hirsch Jacobs | Ethel D. Jacobs | 7 F | 1:23.20 |
| 1953 | Squared Away | 6 | James Nichols | Carey Winfrey | Jan Winfrey Burke | 7 F | 1:23.80 |
| 1952 | Next Move | 5 | Eric Guerin | Bill Winfrey | Alfred G. Vanderbilt II | 7 F | 1:24.00 |
| 1951 | Sheilas Reward | 4 | Dave Gorman | Gene Jacobs | Mrs. Louis Lazare | 7 F | 1:23.40 |
| 1950 | Piet | 5 | Nick Combest | R. Emmett Potts | BoMar Stable | 7 F | 1:23.20 |
| 1949 | Loser Weeper | 4 | Eric Guerin | Bill Winfrey | Alfred G. Vanderbilt II | 7 F | 1:25.00 |
| 1948 | Coincidence | 6 | Ted Atkinson | John M. Gaver Sr. | Greentree Stable | 7 F | 1:26.40 |
| 1947 | Rippey | 4 | Ovie Scurlock | William M. Booth | William G. Helis | 7 F | 1:24.00 |
| 1946 | Gallorette | 4 | Job Dean Jessop | Edward A. Christmas | William L. Brann | 7 F | 1:23.40 |
| 1945 | Apache | 6 | James Stout | James E. Fitzsimmons | Belair Stud | 7 F | 1:24.00 |
| 1944 | Brownie | 5 | Eric Guerin | John B. Theall | Joe W. Brown | 7 F | 1:24.00 |
| 1943 | Wait A Bit | 4 | Wayne Wright | Matthew P. Brady | William Ziegler Jr. | 7 F | 1:22.40 |
| 1942 | Salto | 3 | Warren Mehrtens | Max Hirsch | King Ranch | 7 F | 1:23.20 |
| 1941 | Pictor | 4 | George Woolf | Frank Walker | William L. Brann | 7 F | 1:23.80 |
| 1940 | Jacomar | 3 | Ruperto Donoso | Albert B. (Alex) Gordon | Mrs. E. Graham Lewis | 7 F | 1:24.00 |
| 1939 | Third Degree | 3 | Eddie Arcaro | John M. Gaver Sr. | Greentree Stable | 6.5 F | 1:16.60 |
| 1938 | The Fighter | 5 | Basil James | Edward L. Snyder | William F. Morgan | 6.5 F | 1:17.60 |
| 1937 | He Did | 4 | Lester Balaski | J. Thomas Taylor | W. Arnold Hanger | 6.5 F | 1:18.00 |
| 1936 | Emileo | 3 | Ira Hanford | C. H. "Pat" Knebelkamp | Orienta Stable | 6.5 F | 1:18.00 |
| 1935 | Miss Merriment | 4 | Raymond Workman | J. P. "Sammy" Smith | Dorwood Stable (Victor Emanuel) | 6 F | 1:11.40 |
| 1934 | Open Range | 3 | Eddie Litzenberger | George E. Phillips | William Graham | 6 F | 1:12.80 |
| 1933 | Dominus | 3 | James Stout | James E. Fitzsimmons | Belair Stud | 8 F | 1:38.20 |
| 1932 | Halcyon | 4 | Alfred Robertson | T. J. Healey | C. V. Whitney | 7 F | 1:24.00 |
| 1931 | Mr. Sponge | 4 | Mack Garner | Henry McDaniel | Joseph E. Widener | 7 F | 1:25.60 |
| 1930 | Black Majesty | 3 | Charles Kurtsinger | Bennett W. Creech | William R. Coe | 7 F | 1:24.60 |
| 1929 | Distraction | 4 | James H. Burke | James E. Fitzsimmons | Wheatley Stable | 7 F | 1:24.20 |
| 1928 | Buddy Bauer | 4 | Anthony Pascuma | Herbert J. Thompson | Edward R. Bradley | 7 F | 1:24.60 |
| 1927 | Black Curl | 3 | Frank Catrone | Sam Hildreth | Rancocas Stable | 7 F | 1:26.80 |
| 1926 | Backbone | 4 | Linus McAtee | James G. Rowe Sr. | Harry Payne Whitney | 7 F | 1:23.40 |
| 1925 | Superlette | 3 | Laverne Fator | Sam Hildreth | Rancocas Stable | 7 F | 1:24.20 |