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Nassau County Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1996

Track
  
left-handed

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
1,408 m

Location
  
Belmont Park Elmont, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.nyra.com/index_belmont.html

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The Nassau County Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Belmont Park in Elmont, Nassau County, New York. A Grade III event, it is open to three-year-old fillies willing to run the distance of seven furlongs on dirt. The race offers a purse $200,000 added.

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Inaugurated in 1996, it is named after the county on Long Island in which Belmont Park is located.

On November 28, 2007, this Grade II stakes race was downgraded to a Grade III by the American Graded Stakes Committee.

Previously, Belmont Park hosted the Nassau County Handicap, a race on dirt for horses of either sex, age three and older. This race was last run in 1993.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:22.04 - Dream Rush (2007)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 2 - Jorge Chavez (1996, 2008)
  • 2 - Jose Santos (1997, 2003)
  • 2 - Mike E. Smith (1998, 1999)
  • 2 - Javier Castellano (2002, 2009)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • No trainer has won this race more than once.

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • No owner has won this race more than once.

    • Nassau County Handicap

    Open to horses of either sex, age three and older, it was raced on dirt over a distance of  1 1⁄8 miles (9 furlongs).

    In 1992, the four-year-old Strike the Gold, set a new track record of 1:46 3/5 in winning the Nassau County Handicap.

    References

    Nassau County Stakes Wikipedia
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