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Lamplighter Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1946

Surface
  
Turf

Website
  
www.monmouthpark

Location
  
Monmouth Park Racetrack Oceanport, New Jersey, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

The Lamplighter Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the last week of May at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Open to three-year-old horses, it is contested on turf over a distance of  1 1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs).

Inaugurated in 1946 as the Lamplighter Handicap, the race was named to honor Lamplighter, the 1893 American Co-Champion Older Male Horse owned by proment horseman Pierre Lorillard IV who had been an co-owner of the Monmouth Park Association's racetrack.

Since inception, the race has been contested at various distances on both dirt and turf:

  •  1 1⁄16 miles on dirt : 1946-1970, 1972, 1974, 1984,1987
  •  1 1⁄8 miles on turf : 1971
  •  1 1⁄16 miles on turf : 1973, 1975–1983, 1985–1986, 1988–2004, 2007–present
  • 1 mile on turf : 2005, 2006

    • On July 1, 1978 the legendary U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, John Henry, made his turf stakes debut with a third-place finish in the second division of the Lamplighter.

    Records

    Speed record:

  • 1:40.52 - Lendell Ray (2000)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - George D. Widener, Jr. (1950, 1965)
  • 2 - James Cox Brady, Jr. (1953, 1954)
  • 2 - Calumet Farm (1961, 1971)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 5 - Craig Perret (1975, 1976, 1986, 1987, 1988)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 4 - William I. Mott (1993, 1995, 200, 2003)

    • References

    Lamplighter Stakes Wikipedia
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