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Sands Point Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1995

Purse
  
500,000 USD (2014–)

Surface
  
Turf

Location
  
Belmont Park Elmont, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
Belmont Park at the NYRA

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (9.0 furlongs)

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The Sands Point Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually near the end of May at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York although that can change. A Grade II event open to three-year-old fillies, it is contested on turf over a distance of 9 furlongs.

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Inaugurated in 1995 as the Sands Point Handicap, the first two editions were contested at a mile and a sixteenth before being changed to a mile and an eighth in 1997. In 2011, the race was once more set at one and one sixteenth of a mile. In 2014 it changed back to  1 1⁄8 mile.

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Records

Speed record:

  • 1:46.65 - Auntie Mame (1997) at  1 1⁄8 miles
  • 1:42.50 - Discreet Marq (2013) at  1 1⁄16 miles

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Darley Stable (2008, 2012)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 2 - John Velazquez (1995, 2005)
  • 2 - Robbie Davis (1996, 2002)
  • 2 - Jerry Bailey (1997, 2000)
  • 2 - Richard Migliore (2001, 2003)
  • 2 - Edgar Prado (2004, 2007)
  • 2 - Garrett Gomez (2006, 2007)
  • 2 - Jose Lezcano (2011, 2013)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - Thomas Albertrani (2008, 2009, 2012)
  • 2 - Angel Penna, Jr. (1995, 1997)
  • 2 - Todd A. Pletcher (2001, 2006)
  • 2 - Christophe Clemente (2007, 2013)

    • References

    Sands Point Stakes Wikipedia
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