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Bay Shore Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1960

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
7 furlongs

Location
  
Aqueduct Racetrack Queens, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.nyra.com/index_aqueduct.html

The Bay Shore Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in early April at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. The Grade III event is for three-year-olds of either gender, and is set at a distance of seven furlongs on the dirt track.

In its 57th running in 2017, the Bay Shore, named for the resort town of Bay Shore, New York, currently offers a purse of $300,000. It was also the name of a seven-furlong race for three-year-olds and up, last run in 1955.

Since inception in 1960 as the Bay Shore Handicap, the race has been contested at a variety of distances:

  • 8 furlongs : 1960-1963
  • 6 furlongs : 1977-1978, 1984, 1994
  • 7 furlongs : 1964-1976, 1979-1983, 1985-1992, 1995-present

    • The race was run in two divisions in 1962, 1968, 1975, and 1986

    Due to bad weather it was not run in 1993.

    Records

    Speed record: (at current distance of 7 furlongs)

  • 1:20.54 - Limit Out (1998)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - John Velazquez (1994, 1996, 2003, 2004)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - Stanley R. Shapoff (1974, 1988, 1991)
  • 3 - D. Wayne Lukas (1985, 1989, 1990)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 3 - Robert B. Cohen (1974, 1988, 1991)

    • References

    Bay Shore Stakes Wikipedia
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