The Shine Again Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. Contested over a distance of one mile and one sixteenth (eight and a half furlongs) on the dirt, it is open to fillies and mares three-years-old and up that are Registered Maryland-breds.
History Run during the latter part of May as part of Preakness week, the race was named in honor of Shine Again, a fourth generation homebred in the Allaire du Pont stable. Shine Again was brilliant over three seasons of competition in which she was named Maryland-bred horse of the Year in 2003, Maryland-bred champion older mare in three consecutive years while earning state-bred champion sprinter title in two of those years. She retired after the 2003 season as the ninth leading Maryland-bred money earner of all time, with $1,271,840. From 34 career starts, she won 14 races (eight stakes), was second 10 times (eight stakes) and third in seven others (five stakes).2007 Maryland Jockey Club Media Guide, page 270 on March 3, 2007.
Shine Again was a daughter of Wild Again out of the Two Punch mare Shiner. Shine Again was under the guidance of Hall of Fame trainer H. Allen Jerkens, she won four stakes races that season including the Grade 1 Ballerina Handicap at Saratoga Race Course plus the Grade 2 First Flight Handicap and placed in four other Graded stakes races. The very next year she returned to defend her titles in the Ballerina and the First Flight and won both, she also had five graded stakes placings including the grade one Ruffian Handicap. She just missed the three-peat in the Ballerina at age six, finishing second by a neck. In that year she won the grade two Genuine Risk Handicap while placing in five other additional graded stakes races.
The race has also been won by trainers who later achieved success at the highest levels of American Thoroughbred racing, including Cherie DeVaux, who went on to become the first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby in 2026.
Records
Speed record: miles - 1:45.40 - Katie's Love (2006)
Most wins by a jockey: 3 - Luis Garcia (2006, 2008 & 2009)
Most wins by a trainer: No trainer has won the Shine Again Stakes more than once
Winners of the Shine Again Stakes Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer Owner Distance Time Purse2021 Chub Wagon4 Jomar Torres Guadalupe Preciado Daniel Lopez & George Chestnut6 fur.1:10.21$100,0002020 No Race - No Race No Race No Raceno race0:00.00no race2019 Our Super Freak3 Jose OrtizCherie DeVaux LBD Stable LLC & David Ingordo7 fur.1:22.98$100,0002018 Cairenn4 John R. Velazquez H. Graham Motion WSS Racing, LLC7 fur.1:22.11$100,0002017 Line of Best Fit7 Kevin Gomez Claudio A. Gonzalez Sheffield Stable LLC1 mile1:23.90$50,0002016 Sothern Girl 3 Abel Castellano J. Larry Jones Fox Hill Farms Inc.1 mile1:24.11$50,0002015 No Race - No Race No Race No Raceno race0:00.00no race2014 No Race - No Race No Race No Raceno race0:00.00no race2013 Daydreamin Gracie 5 Garry Cruise Dane Kobiskie PTK LLC1-1/161:46.30$50,0002012 Sneaky Lil6 Abel Castellano Jamie Ness Richard Blue Jr.1-1/161:47.00 $50,0002011 D Day6 Jeremy Rose Samuel F. Cronk Samuel F. Cronk’s 1-1/161:47.08 $50,0002010 American Victory4 Travis Dunkelberger Rodney Jenkins Richard Golden1-1/161:47.51 $50,0002009 Amie’s Legend 4 Luis Garcia H. Graham Motion Two Legends Farm1-1/161:45.20 $50,0002008 Come Fly Away 4 Luis Garcia Michael Hushion Bill & Vicki Poston1-1/161:44.75 $50,0002007 Katie's Love5 Horacio Karamanos Nancy H. Alberts Lewis Racing Stable1-1/161:45.51$50,0002006 Dynamic Deputy4 Luis Garcia Richard W. Small Fitzhugh, LLC1-1/161:45.74$50,000
See also
Shine Again Stakes top three finishers and starters Pimlico Race Course List of graded stakes at Pimlico Race Course
References