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The Native Dancer Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. Raced in early January, it is open to horses age three and older and is contested on dirt over a distance of mile (8.5 furlongs). Its purse is $100,000. From 1966 to 2002, the race was known as the Native Dancer Handicap. It has been run at four different distances; for the first eleven years (from 1966 to 1976), the race was run at 6 furlongs, from 1977 to 1984 and in 2005 it was raced at a distance of miles; in 1985 and from 2006 through 2010 the race was contested at its present distance of 1 mile; and from 1986 through 2003, it was run at a distance of miles. The race was originally run at Bowie Race Course from 1966 through 1984.〔2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 173 on March 3, 2007.〕 The race is named in honor of Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Native Dancer. Native Dancer was the huge gray son of two of thoroughbred's top racing horses of the decade in Polynesian and Geisha. He was named ''Horse of the Year'' as a two-year-old and then named a repeat winner as a four-year-old. He also won the titles of ''Champion 2-year-old, Champion 3-year-old and Champion older horse'' in three consecutive years. Native Dancer won 21 of 22 races and earned $785,240. His 18 stakes victories included the Preakness Stakes, the Belmont Stakes and the Travers Stakes. Native Dancer's only loss was in the Kentucky Derby. Following a trip in which he was bumped three times, he finished second, a head behind Dark Star. Upon his retirement, Native Dancer entered into stud at Vanderbilt's Sagamore Farm in Glyndon, Maryland, where he remained until his death in 1967. He was buried at Sagamore and was the sire of 45 stakes winners including Raise a Native (grandsire to Mr. Prospector), Alydar, Natalma and Northern Dancer. == Records == Speed record: * 6 furlongs - 1:09.00 - Tap The Tree (1974) * 1 mile - 1:34.80 - Throng (2008) * miles - 1:40.20 - Jims Third Bolero (2005) * miles - 1:48.40 - Gulf Reckoning (1996) Most wins by an owner: * 2 - Jack Owens (1986 & 1987) Most wins by a jockey: * 3 - Edgar Prado (1991, 1992 & 1995) * 3 - Vincent Bracciale, Jr. (1974, 1981 & 1983) Most wins by a trainer: * 3 - Michael Trombetta (2006, 2013 & 2014) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Native Dancer Stakes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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