Mineshaft Handicap

The Mineshaft Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race for four-year-olds and up run at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana early in the year. A Grade III stakes race, it's set at a distance of 1 and one-sixteenth mile on the dirt, and currently offers a purse of $125,000.

It's named for the fine competitor Mineshaft, now a promising stallion standing at Lane's End Farm.

This race was originally called The Whirlaway Handicap to honor the great Whirlaway.

Past winners

2016 - Majestic Harbor (8) (Corey J. Lanerie)
2015 - Street Babe (4) (Kerwin D. Clark)
2014 - Bradester (4) (Rosie Napravnik)
2013 - Mark Valeski (4) (Rosie Napravnik)
2012 - Nates Mineshaft (5) (Jesse Campbell)
2011 - Demarcation (7) (Rosie Napravnik)
2010 - Stonehouse (6) (Miguel Mena)
2009 – Honest Man (5) (Gabriel Saez)
2008 - Grasshopper (4) (Robby Albarado) (Magna Graduate came in third.)
2007 - Master Command (5) (John Velazquez)
2006 - RACE NOT RUN
2005 - Wanderin' Boy (4) (Larry Melancon) (Pollard's Vision placed.)
2004 - Olmodavor (5) (Corey Lanerie)
2003 - Balto Star (5) (Eddie Martin Jr.) (Mineshaft placed.)
2002 - Valhol (6) (Robby Albarado)
2001 - Include (Maryland's Champion Older Male Horse, 2001. Earner of 13 triple digit Beyer Speed Figures.)
2000 - Take Note of Me (record holder.)
1999 - Precocity
1998 - Moonlight Dancer
1997 - Byars
1996 - Buck's Nephew
1995 - Adhocracy
1994 - Cool Quaker
1993 - West by West (Grade I winner.)
1992 - Irish Swap