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Just a Game Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1994

Surface
  
Turf

Distance
  
1,609 m

Website
  
www.nyra.com Belmont

Track
  
Left-handed

Purse
  
700,000 USD (2015–)

Location
  
Belmont Park Elmont, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Celestine 2016 longines just a game stakes


The Just A Game Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in early June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Open to fillies and mares age four and up, it is contested on turf over a distance of one mile (8 furlongs). A Grade I event since 2008, it offered a purse of $750,000 in 2014. In 2015, the purse was changed to $700,000.

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The race is named in honor of Peter Brant's filly, Just A Game, who was voted 1980 American Champion Female Turf Horse honors.

2015 just a game stakes


Records

Speed record:

  • 1:31.64 - Celestine (2016)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Caress (1995, 1996)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Harbor View Farm (1995, 1996)
  • 2 - Juddmonte Farms (2004, 2008)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 - Jerry Bailey (1997, 2000, 2004)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 5 - William I. Mott (1994, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2016)

    • References

    Just a Game Stakes Wikipedia
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