Aqueduct Racetrack Queens, New York, United States
Inaugurated
1953
Race type
Thoroughbred – Flat racing
Website
www.nyra.com/index_aqueduct.html
Race information
Distance
1 mile (8 furlongs)
Surface
Dirt
Track
left-handed
Qualification
Three-year-olds
Weight
123 lbs. with allowances[1]
Purse
$300,000 (since 2017)[2]
The Gotham Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses run in early March at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. A Grade III event with a current purse of US$300,000, it is set at a distance of 1 mile on the dirt. It is part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby.
^"Chart of the 2020 Gotham". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
^"Stakes profile". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
The GothamStakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses run in early March at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. A Grade...
the fastest mile on dirt by any three-year-old in the history in the GothamStakes with a time of 1:32+2⁄5, the only horse in racing history to win the...
Amberoid, who won the 1966 Wood Memorial Stakes and gave Laurin his first of six American Classics, the Belmont Stakes. His son, Roger Laurin, worked as a...
gained prominence with his victory aboard Tom Rolfe in the 1965 Preakness Stakes. Turcotte soon started working with Canadian trainer Lucien Laurin at the...
Queens, New York he won the GothamStakes by 8+1⁄2 lengths in stakes record time. Following the colt's win in the GothamStakes, owner/breeder David Lanzman...
of media attention leading up to the 1953 Kentucky Derby. He won the GothamStakes and the prestigious Wood Memorial, but in the 1953 Kentucky Derby, he...
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13 of his 17 starts, including the Grade I Wood Memorial Stakes, the Grade II GothamStakes, the grade two Massachusetts Handicap, the grade two General...
Charismatic, and they won that year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. In the 1999 Belmont Stakes, Charismatic finished third after injuring his leg in the...
Some of his top horses include: Manassa Mauler, who won the Wood Memorial Stakes in 1959; Never Bow, the Brooklyn Handicap winner in 1971; Hitchcock, the...
Aqueduct. He won his first graded race at the 1982 GothamStakes. He then won the 1982 Wood Memorial Stakes, which was the last race of his four race win streak...
Stakes (now known as the Jimmy Winkfield Stakes), the Grade II Jersey Derby, and the Grade II Del Mar Derby, and came second in the Grade II Gotham Stakes...
trained horse has won a number of important U.S. Stakes races including the 1995 Wood Memorial and GothamStakes. In 1999, Roger Attfield was inducted into...
Uncle Mo. Stay Thirsty won the Grade 3 GothamStakes before coming second to Ruler on Ice in the 2011 Belmont Stakes. Like his sire five years earlier, Stay...
the $100,000 Hal's Hope Handicap Doctor Decherd in the $125,000 Aventura Stakes Bridgmohan was mentioned in the rap song "Fake Patois" by Das Racist, with...
of intense media scrutiny. His owners considered entering him in the GothamStakes on April 9 but Turner was against it because heavy rains had rendered...
Enticed to a twelfth-place finish in the 2018 edition. In the 2012 Preakness Stakes he ran fourth aboard Zetterholm. Equibase statistics Retrieved September...
(1989-2011) - multiple stakes winner with career earnings of $1,038,123 Zafonic (1990-2002) - won British Classic 2,000 Guineas Stakes European Champion Two-Year-Old...
the race is a prep to the Whirlaway Stakes, the GothamStakes, the Bay Shore Stakes and the Wood Memorial Stakes. Inaugurated in 1975 as the Count Fleet...
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