Squan Song Stakes

The Squan Song Stakes is a race for Thoroughbred horses held in early November at Laurel Park in Maryland.  The ungraded stakes race is open to three-year-olds, is run at one mile on the dirt, and offers a purse of $75,000.

This race is named for Squan Song (born 1981), who was a four-time Maryland Bred champion, from 1984 to 1987 and earned "Horse-of-the-Year" honors in 1985. A winner of 18 of her 36 career starts, with 12 placements (ten in stakes races), the mare earned $898,444, placing her fourth on the all-time list of top Maryland-bred money winners at the time of her retirement. She was sold by her breeder Linda Green, for $125,000 as a weanling at Keeneland.

Squan Song campaigned under the colors of owners Bob Brennan's Due ProcessStable, winning a total of 14 stakes races, including the Grade 2 Cotillion Handicap at Philadelphia Park, the Rare Treat Stakes and the Affectionately Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack. She set track records for a mile and one sixteenth in the Meadowlands Racetrack's Honey Bee Handicap and in Garden State Park Racetrack's Haddonfield Handicap.

Records
Speed record:
 7 furlong - 1:23.00 - Gazillion (2002)
  miles - 1:50.00 - Wait for the Lady (1990)

Most wins by a jockey:
 4 - Albert Delgado   (1988, 1991, 1992 & 2009)
 3 - Jeremy Rose   (2002, 2003 & 2006)

Most wins by a trainer:
 3 - Richard W. Small    (2004, 2005 & 2007)

Winners of the Squan Song Stakes since 1988

See also
 Squan Song Stakes "top three finishers" and starters
 Laurel Park Racecourse

References

External links
Laurel Park racetrack

Category:Triple Crown Prep Races
Category:Laurel Park Racecourse
Category:Horse races in Maryland
Category:Recurring sporting events established in 1988
Category:1988 establishments in Maryland