Inaugurated 1930 Qualification Three-years-old & up Distance 6 furlong sprint | Surface Dirt Weight Assigned Track Left-handed | |
Location Jamaica Racetrack
Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing | ||
American bred horse equipoise wins the wilson stakes race at the racing spa in sa hd stock footage
The Wilson Stakes/Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run for twenty-nine years between 1930 and 1958. Inaugurated at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York, it was named In honor of Richard Thornton Wilson, Jr., a prominent Thoroughbred owner and president of Saratoga Race Course.
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- American bred horse equipoise wins the wilson stakes race at the racing spa in sa hd stock footage
- Winners
- References
Inaugurated as the Wilson Plate at a distance of one mile (8 furlongs), the first running in 1930 was won by Battleship Gray, a son of Man o' War. In July 1954, the race was shifted to the Jamaica Racetrack in Jamaica, New York as part of three weeks of racing that was called the "Saratoga-at-Jamaica" race meeting. Renamed the Wilson Handicap and raced as a six furlong sprint, the event remained at the Jamaica track through 1958 and was then canceled due to the closure of the Jamaica facility on August 1, 1959.
Eight winners of the Wilson Stakes have been inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.