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Amsterdam Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1993

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
6 ⁄2 furlongs

Location
  
Saratoga Race Course Saratoga Springs, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.nyra.com/index_saratoga.html

The Amsterdam Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of July at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Open to three-year-old horses, it is a sprint race competed over a distance of  6 1⁄2 furlongs. A Grade II event, it currently offers a purse of $200,000.

Inaugurated in 1993 as the Screen King Stakes and run at seven furlongs, it was raced at a distance of six furlongs between 1994 and 2005.

In 1998 the race was renamed for Amsterdam, New York, a neighbor town of Saratoga Springs in Upstate New York.

The race was run in two divisions in 1994.

Records

Time record: (at current distance of  6 1⁄2 furlongs)

  • 1:13.74 - Quality Road (2009) (Breaking Saratoga’s 30-year track record, as well as the 37-year-old six-furlong record.)
  • 1:09.13 - Distorted Humor (1996) (at previous distance of 6 furlongs)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • No owner has won this race more than once.

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Pat Day (1995, 1996, 2000, 2002)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - Steven M. Asmussen (2004, 2005, 2015)
  • 3 - Todd Pletcher (2009, 2010, 2013)

    • References

    Amsterdam Stakes Wikipedia
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