Sun Briar
Three-year-old season
### Three\-year\-old season

Not training well in the spring of 1918, Sun Briar did not run in the [Kentucky Derby](/wiki/Kentucky_Derby "Kentucky Derby") but by mid summer was in peak form. Under regular rider [Willie Knapp](/wiki/Willie_Knapp "Willie Knapp"), he set a [North American](/wiki/North_America "North America") record of 1:36 1/5 for one mile on dirt over an oval track while winning the [Delaware Handicap](/wiki/Delaware_Handicap "Delaware Handicap").[New York Times \- August 7, 1918](https://www.nytimes.com/1918/08/07/archives/sun-briar-flashes-around-the-saratoga-spa-circuit-at-a.html) Less than two weeks later, Knapp and Sun Briar won the prestigious [Travers Stakes](/wiki/Travers_Stakes "Travers Stakes") in which he set a new [stakes record](/wiki/Stakes_record "Stakes record") for a mile and a quarter on dirt.[August 18, 1918](https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20B17FE3A5F1B7A93CAA81783D85F4C8185F9) In a September 1918 [race against the clock](/wiki/Race_against_the_clock "Race against the clock") at Saratoga, Sun Briar ran a mile in 1:34 flat.[Daily Racing Form, page 2 \- June 22, 1943](http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=drf1940s;cc=drf1940s;q1=1%3A34;rgn=full%20text;idno=drf1943062201;didno=drf1943062201;view=pdf;seq=2_1;node=drf1943062201%3A2.1;passterms=1)


What handicap did Sun Briar win, setting a new stakes record?