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Inaugurated
  
1913

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
6 furlong sprint

Purse
  
150,000 USD (2015)

Location
  
Saratoga Race CourseSaratoga, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.nyra.com/index saratoga

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The Sanford Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the third week of July at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. A six furlong sprint race, the Grade III event is open to two-year-old horses.

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Inaugurated in 1913 as the Sanford Memorial Stakes, it was modified to its present name in 1927. The race is named for Stephen Sanford and his son John, Amsterdam, New York businessmen from one of Saratoga's original horse racing families. Their horses first appeared in the Saratoga races in 1880. Stephen Sanford named all his best horses after members of the Mohawk nation.

The race was hosted by Belmont Park from 1943 through 1945. It was contested at five and a half furlongs from 1962 through 1968. Held for almost a hundred years, the only two years in which it did not take place was 1961 and 2005.

Only four horses have ever won all three Saratoga Racecourse events for two-year-olds. Regret (1914), Campfire (1916), Dehere (1993), and City Zip (2000) each swept the Sanford Stakes, Saratoga Special Stakes, and Hopeful Stakes.

It was in the seventh running of the Sanford in 1919 that Man o' War lost his only race to a horse called Upset.

This race was downgraded to a Grade III for its 2014 running.

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Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 6 furlongs)

  • 1:09.32 - Afleet Alex (2004)
  • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 7 - John Velazquez (1999, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2015)
  • Most wins by an owner:

  • 8 - Greentree Stable (1933, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1956, 1959, 1963, 1978)
  • References

    Sanford Stakes Wikipedia


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