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The Saranac Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Grade III stakes is open to three-year-old horses and is raced on turf over a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles. The event, currently run in early September, raised its purse to $300,000 in 2014. [1]
The inaugural running of the event known as the Saratoga Derby was on 13 August 1904 run as the fourth race on the day's card over a distance of 1 + 5 ⁄ 16 miles on the dirt track. The event was won by James R. Keene 's 1904 Belmont Stakes winner Delhi starting as 2/9 odds-on favorite who led from start to finish in a small three horse field ...
The event is named in honor of Quick Call, the multiple graded stakes winning gelding who won more than half his 16 career victories at the Saratoga Race Course. [2] Quick Call was a dual winner of the GII Forego Handicap , lived to the age of 35 and is buried at Clare Court in Saratoga Springs .
For the first time, the Saratoga Race Course will have the best 3-year-olds in the world duke it out in a Triple Crown race when the venerable track hosts the Belmont Stakes on June 8.
The event's inaugural running was on 2 August 2019 and was won by Ashbrook Farm & BBN Racing's Concrete Rose who was ridden by jockey Julien R. Leparoux and trained by trainer George Arnold II comfortably leading all the way by 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 lengths as the 3/10 odds on favorite by a head in a time of 1:55.34. [2]
Saratoga Race Course is a Thoroughbred horse racing track located on Union Avenue in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States.Opened in 1863, it is often considered to be the oldest major sporting venue of any kind in the U.S. [2] It is the fourth oldest racetrack after Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack (1858), [3] Freehold Raceway (1854) and Fair Grounds Race Course (1852).
The Bernard Baruch Stakes is a Listed American Thoroughbred horse race for three-years-old and older run over a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles on the turf annually in early August at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. The event currently offers a purse of $150,000.
The Saratoga Special Stakes is an American grade II thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid-August at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. The race is for two-year-olds willing to race six furlongs on the dirt. [2] With its first run in 1901, the Saratoga Special was a winner-take-all race until 1959 when it became a standard ...