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Inaugurated
  
1985

Track
  
Left-handed

Purse
  
300,000 USD (2014)

Surface
  
Turf

Distance
  
1,609 m

Location
  
Belmont Park Elmont, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
The Poker Stakes at Belmont Park

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The Poker Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. A Grade III event open to horses age four and older, it is raced on turf at a distance of one mile (8 furlongs).

Contents

The inaugural running of the 1985 Poker Handicap was contested at a distance of a mile and a sixteenth and at a mile and a quarter the following year.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:31. 63 - Elusive Quality (1998)
    (New stakes and course record for one mile and believed to be a world record at the time.)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Fourstardave (1989, 1993)
  • 2 - Affirmed Success (2000, 2001)
  • 2 - King Kreesa (2013, 2015)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Harbor View Farm (1985, 1995)
  • 2 - Richard M. Bomze (1989, 1993)
  • 2 - Albert Fried, Jr. (2000, 2001)
  • 2 - Juddmonte Farms (2003, 2007)
  • 2 - IEAH Stables (2006, 2008)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 - Jose Santos (1987, 1988, 1989)
  • 3 - Jerry Bailey (1991, 1998, 2001)
  • 3 - Jorge Chavez (1994, 1999, 2000)
  • 3 - Jose Lezcano (2011, 2012, 2016)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 2 - Angel Penna, Jr. (1997, 2005)
  • 2 - Richard Schosberg (2000, 2001)
  • 2 - Robert J. Frankel (2003, 2007)
  • 2 - Richard E. Dutrow, Jr. (2006, 2008)

    • References

    Poker Stakes Wikipedia
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