Glens_Falls_Stakes

Glens Falls Stakes

Glens Falls Stakes

Horse race

The Glens Falls Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares aged four years old and older held over a distance of one and a half miles on the turf held annually in August at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. The event currently carries a purse of $250,000.

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History

The event at Saratoga Race Course is named after the nearby city of Glens Falls, New York.

The inaugural running of the event was on 9 August 1996 over a distance of 1+3⁄8 miles for fillies and mares three-years-old and older and was won by the 17-1 longshot Ampulla who was ridden by Shane Sellers in a time of 2:16.49 by a two lengths margin.[1]

From 1998 to 2010 the event was run under handicap conditions.[2]

In 1999 the event was upgraded in classification by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association's American Graded Stakes Committee to Grade III.[2]

The Glens Falls Handicap was run in two divisions in 2004.[3]

The event has been taken off the turf due the state of the turf track three times and run at a shorter distance: 2000, 2001, 2013.[2][4]

In 2018 the event was upgrade to Grade II.[5]

In 2020 the conditions of the event were modified for entrance to fillies and mares aged four years old and older.[6]

In 2021 the distance of the event was increased from 1+3⁄8 miles to 1+1⁄2 miles.[7]

Records

Speed record:

  • 1+1⁄2 miles: 2:27.05 – McKulick (2023)
  • 1+3⁄8 miles: 2:11.46 – White Rose (2015)

Margins:

  • 7 lengths – Auntie Mame (1998)

Most wins:

Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 – George Krikorian (2021, 2022)

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Winners

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Legend:
  Dirt   Turf

See also

References

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