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United Nations Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1953

Purse
  
327,000 USD (2016)

Surface
  
Turf

Location
  
Monmouth Park Racetrack Oceanport, New Jersey, USA

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
Monmouth Park Racetrack

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (11 furlongs)

The United Nations Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in July at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey. The race is open to horses, age three and up, going one and three-eighths miles on the turf. A Grade I event, it currently offers a purse of $327,000. Until 2007, it was known as the United Nations Handicap.

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Part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge series, the winner of the 2008 United Nations Stakes automatically qualified for the Breeders' Cup Turf.

Founded in 1953 at the Atlantic City Race Course in Mays Landing, New Jersey, the race was set at a distance of  1 3⁄16 miles until 1999 when it was changed to  1 3⁄8 miles. The first edition was won in track record time by the Chilean bred, Iceberg II, who was trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Horatio Luro and ridden by Jorge Contreras.

From 1990 through 1997, it was known as the Caesars International. No race was held in 1998 and in 1999, it was shifted to Monmouth Park.

2009 united nations stakes


Records

Time record:

  •  1 3⁄8 miles - 2:10.97 : Presious Passion (2009) (Monmouth track record at this distance)
  •  1 3⁄16 miles - 1:52.00 : Steinlen (1990)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Round Table (1957, 1959)
  • 2 - Mongo (1962, 1963)
  • 2 - Noble Dancer (1978, 1979)
  • 2 - Manila (1986, 1987)
  • 2 - Sandpit (1995, 1996)
  • 2 - English Channel (2006, 2007)
  • 2 - Presious Passion (2008, 2009)
  • 2 - Big Blue Kitten (2013, 2015)

    • Most wins by a jockey

  • 4 - Jorge Velasquez (1969, 1970, 1973, 1974)
  • 4 - Jose A. Santos (1986, 1988, 1990, 1993)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 6 - MacKenzie Miller (1966, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1981, 1984)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 4 - Rokeby Stables (1970, 1971, 1981, 1984)

    • References

    United Nations Stakes Wikipedia
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