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Lake Placid Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1984

Surface
  
Turf

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

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
Lake Placid Stakes history at NYRA

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (9 furlongs)

The Lake Placid Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. It is run at a distance of one and one-eighths miles on the turf and is open to three-year-old fillies and currently carries a purse of $300,000. The race is a Grade II event.

Inaugurated as the Nijana Handicap in 1984, it was renamed the Lake Placid Stakes in 1998.

The Lake Placid Stakes has been contested at different distances:

  •  1 1⁄16 miles : 1985-1989
  •  1 1⁄8 miles : 1984, 1990, 1996–present

    • In 1990, it was run on dirt.

    The Lake Placid was run in two divisions in 1988, 1991, and from 1992 through 1995.

    Records

    Speed record: (at current distance of  1 1⁄8 miles)

  • 1:46.33 - Tenski (1998)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Joan & John Phillips (1996, 2002)
  • 2 - Ken and Sarah Ramsey (1995, 2012)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 6 - Jerry D. Bailey (1987, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 2 - John M. Veitch (1987, 1988)
  • 2 - D. Wayne Lukas (1990, 1993)
  • 2 - William I. Mott (1995, 2007)
  • 2 - James J. Toner (1996, 2002)
  • 2 - Christophe Clement (2004, 2005)
  • 2 - Barclay Tagg (1991, 2013)

    • References

    Lake Placid Stakes Wikipedia
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