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Athenia Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1978

Surface
  
Turf

Location
  
Belmont Park Elmont, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
Athenia Handicap history at Belmont Park

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

The Athenia Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid October at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Open to fillies and mares, age three and older, it is contested on turf at a distance of a mile and a sixteenth (8.5 furlongs).

The Athenia Stakes is named in honor of Hal Price Headley's filly who won the 1946 Ladies Handicap.

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of  1 1⁄16 miles)

  • 1:39.94 - Pianist (2013)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Babae (2001, 2002)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Rokeby Stables (1983, 1988)
  • 2 - Harbor View Farm (1994, 1995)
  • 2 - Joseph Platt, Jr. (2001, 2002)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 6 - Jorge F. Chavez (1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 4 - Christophe Clement (1993, 2009, 2011, 2015)
  • 3 - Woody Stephens (1978, 1979, 1981)
  • 3 - H. Allen Jerkens (1994, 1995, 2005)

    • References

    Athenia Stakes Wikipedia
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