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The Wood Memorial Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held annually in April at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. It is currently a Grade I race run over a distance of 9 furlongs on dirt. The Wood Memorial is currently one of five Grade I races run as preps for the US Triple Crown. Fourteen of the last twenty-one winners (67%) have run in the first leg of the Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby. In comparison, the Blue Grass Stakes has had twenty-one (100%), the Florida Derby has had twenty (95%), the Santa Anita Derby has had eighteen (86%), and the Arkansas Derby has had seventeen of their last twenty-one winners (81%) reach the starting gate of the Kentucky Derby. The winners of the Wood Memorial who did not run in the Kentucky Derby were Toby's Corner with lameness in his left hind leg (2011), Eskendereya with a soft tissue injury in his left front leg (2010), I Want Revenge with a ligament injury to his right front ankle (2009), Buddha with separation of the hoof wall from the laminae of his left front leg (2002), Coronado's Quest due to his bad behavior and the circus-like atmosphere at Churchill Downs (1998), Irgun with an abscess in his right front hoof (1994), Cahill Road with a pulled suspensory ligament in his left front ankle (1991), and Leroy S., who had knee surgery (1984). Eleven winners of the Wood Memorial have won the Kentucky Derby. Four of them also won the Triple Crown. The most famous loser in the Wood Memorial was Secretariat, who finished third in 1973. The race was named to honor Eugene D. Wood, a New York State politician and horse racing enthusiast who had been a founder and past president of the old Jamaica Racetrack where the race was run until 1960. From 1925 to 1939, the Wood Memorial was run over a distance of one mile and seventy yards, then at miles from 1940 to 1951, after which it was changed to its present miles. All entrants currently carry a weight of 123 lb. The race was run in two divisions in 1944, 1945, 1947, 1974, and 1983. ==Records== In 2005, Bellamy Road set a new stakes record of 1:47.16 at the mile distance in winning by lengths for his owner, George Steinbrenner. Most wins by a jockey: * 9 - Eddie Arcaro * 4 - Angel Cordero, Jr. * 3 - Johnny Longden, Bill Shoemaker, Mike E. Smith Most wins by a trainer: * 7 - Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons * 4 - Lucien Laurin * 3 - Nick Zito, Ivan H. Parke (Parke also won once as a jockey) Most wins by an owner: * 4 - Belair Stable, Wheatley Stable, Greentree Stable, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney 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「Wood Memorial Stakes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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