Saratoga Race Course Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Inaugurated
2013
Race type
Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website
www.pegasusworldcup.com
Race information
Surface
Dirt
Track
left-handed
Qualification
Four-year-olds and up
Purse
$120,000 (2021)
The Alydar Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in early August at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Made a Listed race in 2019, it is contested on dirt at a distance of a mile and one-eighth. It is open to four-year-old non-winners in the current year of a Sweepstake other than a State-bred event.[1][2]
Belmont Stakes. Alydar has been described as the best horse in the history of Thoroughbred racing never to have won a championship. Alydar's fame continued...
The AlydarStakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in early August at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Made a Listed...
taking the Belmont Stakes in 2:26 4/5 on June 10, 1978. Ridden by eighteen-year-old Steve Cauthen, Affirmed defeated rival Alydar with Jorge Velásquez...
win in the Youthful Stakes on June 15 where he defeated Alydar by eight lengths. On July 6 in the Great American Stakes, Alydar evened the score with...
and the 1978 Preakness Stakes. As in the prior two legs of the Triple Crown, he narrowly defeated Alydar. Affirmed and Alydar ran head to head for the...
Affirmed finished the Travers ahead of rival Alydar but was disqualified for crowding Alydar off the rail. Alydar was awarded the win. It was the last of 10...
Cauthen, won the race by a head over runner-up Alydar, repeating Affirmed's close victory over Alydar in the Kentucky Derby. Believe It finished 3rd,...
racetrack was also the site of Affirmed's epic stretch duel with Alydar in the 1978 Belmont Stakes, a victory that gave Affirmed the Triple Crown; and Triple...
Fleet, Citation, Secretariat and Affirmed, who defeated his arch rival Alydar in this race. Speed record: 1+1⁄16 miles – 1:40.17 – Barbaro (2005) 1+1⁄8...
fans, Anderson called a 1978 Belmont Stakes race that was as close as the 1973 Belmont was a romp. Affirmed and Alydar—who battled each other closely both...
The Whitney Stakes (run as the Whitney Handicap through 2013 and still sometimes referred to as such) is an American Grade 1 stakes race for Thoroughbred...
rivalries, CBS Sports broadcasts the Belmont Stakes that features a stretch-drive run with Affirmed edging Alydar to win and become the last horse to win horse...
Barbaro's win in the 2005 Laurel Futurity Video at YouTube of Affirmed and Alydar in the 1977 Laurel Futurity Morvich and the first Pimlico (Laurel) Futurity...
of Fame inductees Man o' War, Sarazen, Buckpasser, Foolish Pleasure, and Alydar. The race was usually held in early June. Due to the troubled economy in...
at Sagamore and was the sire of 45 stakes winners including Raise a Native (grandsire to Mr. Prospector), Alydar, Natalma and Northern Dancer. Speed...
American Stakes. In 1936, Fairy Hill defeated War Admiral and in 1977, in what became one of the great rivalries in the history of American racing, Alydar easily...
Crown by defeating Alydar by decreasing margins in the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. 11 horses competed in the race. Alydar went into the race...
first, second, or third place and the number of starters in the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing...
juvenile in the Experimental Free Handicap. He sired 74 stakes winners, including Majestic Prince and Alydar. In its 1988 obituary for the horse, The New York...
earned a purse check along with the number of starters in the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing...
Migliore suffered a near-fatal neck injury when he was thrown from Madam Alydar at Belmont Park. The accident was featured on the television series Rescue...
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