Evan Shipman Handicap

The Evan Shipman Handicap (NYB) is a race restricted to New York bred Thoroughbred horses, age three-years-old and up, run at Belmont Park in the state of New York. Set at a distance of one and one/sixteenth miles on the dirt, the ungraded stakes event offers a purse of $100,000 added.

The race, which will be in its 28th running in 2008, is named for Evan Shipman, long a racing columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph and one of the world’s authorities on Thoroughbred and harness racing and breeding. Shipman died in 1957.

The Evan Shipman was run at one mile in the years 1981 and 1982.

Past winners

* 2007 – Shuffling Maddnes (4) (Cornelio Velasquez)
* 2006 – Spite The Devil (6) (Javier Casteliano)
* 2005 – Yankee Mon (4) (Edgar Prado)
* 2004 – Spite the Devil (4) (Edgar Prado)
* 2003 – Well Fancied (5) (Edgar Prado)
* 2002 – Sherpa Guide (4) (Jose Santos)
* 2001 – Fourth and Six (7) (Jorge Chavez)
* 2000 – Gander (Jerry Bailey)
* 1999 – Sophisticated Man (4) (Aaron Gryder)
* 1998 – Saratoga Sunrise (4) (Robbie Davis)
* 1997 – Richmond Runner (7) (Chris Antley)
* 1996 – Ormsby (4) (Julie Krone)
* 1995 – Patsyprospect (4) (Julie Krone)
* 1994 – Richmond Runner (4) (Robbie Davis)
* 1993 – Liver Stand (4) (Jorge Chavez)
* 1992 – Corax (4) (Julie Krone)
* 1991 – Packett’s Landing (5) (Mike E. Smith)
* 1990 – Tinchen’s Prince (7) (Jacinto Vasquez)
* 1989 – Whodam (4) (Angel Cordero Jr.)
* 1988 – Claramount (4) (Chris Antley)
* 1987 – Easy n Dirty (4) (Robbie Davis)
* 1986 – Romancer (4) (Antonio Graell)
* 1985 – Judge Costa (4) (Jean Cruguet)
* 1984 – Mugatea (4) (Angel Cordero Jr.)
* 1983 – Shy Groom (4) (Angel Cordero Jr.)
* 1982 – Prosper (4) (Eddie Maple)
* 1981 – Fio Rito (6) (Leslie Hulet)

External links

* [http://www.nyra.com/index_belmont.html Belmont's official site]