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Molly Pitcher Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1946

Surface
  
Dirt

Website
  
www.monmouthpark.com

Purse
  
100,000 USD (2016)

Location
  
Monmouth Park Oceanport, New Jersey, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

2015 molly pitcher stakes


The Molly Pitcher Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race raced annually during the last week of August at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey. The race is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. This Grade III event currently carries a purse of $100,000.

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The Molly Pitcher was recently reduced from a Grade II to a Grade III event and had its purse lowered.

In 1951, the Molly Pitcher was the first race in the United States ever to be televised in color.

Joyful victory 2013 molly pitcher stakes first place finish


Records

Speed record:

  • 1:41.20 - Ambassador of Luck (1983)
  • 1:41.20 - Lady's Secret (1986)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Politely (1967, 1968)
  • 2 - Hystericalady (2007, 2008)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 5 - Pat Day (1985, 1986, 1996, 1998, 2000)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 5 - Claude R. McGaughey III (1988, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2002)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Christiana Stables (1948, 1973)
  • 2 - Wheatley Stable (1955, 1966)
  • 2 - Bohemia Stable (1967, 1968)
  • 2 - H. Joseph Allen (1981, 1997)
  • 2 - Stephen D. Peskoff (1983, 1987)

    • References

    Molly Pitcher Stakes Wikipedia
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