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The Endeavour Stakes Grade III

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$175,000 Fillies & Mares 4-Year-Olds-and-Up 1 1/16-Mile (Turf)

WINNER JOCKEY OWNER TRAINER 2nd 3rd

2005 Delta Princess (1:43.54) Heberto Castillo, Jr. Saud bin Khaled Bill Mott Fast Cookie Lentil

2004 Madeira Mist (IRE) (1:44.97)% Edgar Prado Skymarc Farm, Inc. Christophe Clement Something Ventured Coney Kitty (IRE)

2003 Wander Mon (1:50.89) Manoel Cruz Jaime Carrion Edward Plesa, Jr. Strait From Texas Kimster

2002 Chausson Poire (1:50.40) Tommy Pompell Pia M. Kirkham Duane Knipe Kelly Bag Golden Antigua

2001 Cybil (1:48.48) Felix Ortiz Carol F. Dooner J.J. Graci Megans Bluff Golden Saint

2000 Office Miss (1:48.93) Joe Bravo Sam Morell Gary Sciacca Seducer Diablo’s First Lady

The Endeavour Stakes Grade III

$175,000 Endeavour Stakes

Fastest Time: 1:40.08 SURPRISINGLY (2023)

Slowest Time: 1:51.56 CLOUD SCAPES (2014)

Longest Priced Winner: $ 35.60 JEHOZACAT (2020)

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.60 TEPIN (2016)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose OFFICE MISS DREAMING OF ANNA (2000) (2008)

Largest Winning Margin: 4 Lengths DONA BRUJA (2018)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .20 MEGANS BLUFF (2001)

Track Condition: Firm Good Yielding

All except 2005 and 2011 2010

Richest Purse: $175,000 2018-present

Other Notes: Surprisingly, a product of the prolific Phipps Stable bloodlines, rallied from the back of the pack to nip Scotish Star in stakes-record time of 1:40.08 for the 1 1/16-mile distance. In 2022, Bleecker Street provided trainer Chad Brown with a record fourth Endeavour Stakes triumph, while carrying jockey Hector Rafael Diaz, Jr., to his first graded-stakes victory. Counterparty Risk’s 2021 victory was the third Lambholm South Endeavour triumph for jockey John Velazquez and trainer Chad Brown, and their first together. Owner Lael Stables and trainer Arnaud Delacour captured their second consecutive Lambholm South Endeavour victory in 2020 with Jehozacat, who had won the Wayward Lass Stakes on the dirt three weeks earlier. The 6-year-old Ireland-bred Hawksmoor earned her first victory since 2017 in the 2019 Lambholm South Endeavour. In the interim, she had finished second in five stakes races, including two Grade I events. The previous year, Dona Bruja and jockey Jose Ortiz shocked the competition by going to the lead at the outset and rolling to a 4-length victory for trainer Ignacio Correas, IV. The connections of 2017 Lambholm South Endeavour Stakes winner Isabella Sings – owner Siena Farm, trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey John Velazquez – reached the pinnacle of the sport 12 weeks after the Lambholm South Endeavour with a Kentucky Derby victory by Always Dreaming. In 2016, Tepin flashed her Eclipse Award-winning form before an appreciative Tampa Bay Downs crowd, cruising to victory against five overmatched rivals. She had won the Breeders’ Cup Mile on the turf the previous fall against males at Keeneland en route to being voted 2015 Champion Grass Female, an honor she again received in 2016. Tepin later became the fourth Endeavour winner in five years to add the Hillsborough Stakes to her victory ledger and extended her winning streak to eight with victories in the Grade I Coolmore Jenny Wiley at Keeneland, the Grade II Churchill Distaff Turf Mile at Churchill Downs, the Group I Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Ricoh Woodbine Mile. The 2015 Lambholm South Endeavour winner, Testa Rossi, became the first Grade III Florida Oaks winner to return to Oldsmar to win the Endeavour while providing trainer Chad Brown with his second victory in the turf test for older fillies and mares. The disqualification of runner-up Hard Not to Like from first place was the first in the history of the race. Breeder-owner Josephine Abercrombie’s Pin Oak Stud and trainer H. Graham Motion, who won with Cloud Scapes in 2014, combined in 2002 to win the Grade III Tampa Bay Derby with Equality.

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