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Ballerina Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1979

Distance
  
7 furlongs

Website
  
www.nyra.com

Surface
  
Dirt

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

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

The Ballerina Stakes is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race contested each year during the last week of August at Saratoga Race Course. It is open to fillies and mares, ages three and up. It is raced at a distance of seven furlongs on the dirt for a purse of $500,000.

Part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge series, the winner of the Ballerina Stakes automatically qualifies for the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint.

The race is named for Howell E. Jackson's filly, Ballerina, who won the 1954 inaugural running of the Maskette Stakes.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:21.09 - Lady Talk (2004)

    • Most wins:

  • Shine Again (2001, 2002)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - John Velazquez (2005, 2012, 2015, 2016)
  • 3 - Pat Day (1984, 1994, 2000)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 5 - C. R. McGaughey III (1984, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1999)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Ogden Phipps (1979, 1999)
  • 2 - Eugene V. Klein (1985, 1986)
  • 2 - Kinsman Stable (1993, 2000)
  • 2 - Bohemia Stable (2001, 2002)

    • References

    Ballerina Stakes Wikipedia
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