Aqueduct Racetrack Queens, New York, United States
Inaugurated
1874 (at Jerome Park Racetrack)
Race type
Thoroughbred – Flat racing
Website
NYRA
Race information
Distance
1+1⁄8 miles (9 furlongs)
Surface
Dirt
Track
Left-handed
Qualification
Three-year-olds
Weight
123 lbs with allowances
Purse
$250,000 (since 2014)
The Withers Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three years old horses over the distance of 1+1⁄8 miles on the dirt scheduled annually in February at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. The event currently carries a purse of $250,000.[1]
^"Withers Stakes Profile". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
The WithersStakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three years old horses over the distance of 1+1⁄8 miles on the dirt scheduled annually...
gained prominence with his victory aboard Tom Rolfe in the 1965 Preakness Stakes. Turcotte soon started working with Canadian trainer Lucien Laurin at the...
successes as a three-year-old in 1971, winning the Jersey Derby and the WithersStakes. He set a new track record at Belmont Park for six furlongs as a four-year-old...
a very notable 23.7% success rate. In 1916 he won the Travers Stakes and WithersStakes on "Spur" then captured the Kentucky Derby aboard George Smith...
Among his successes, his colt Samraat won the Damon Runyon, Gotham and WithersStakes. Riggio is the benefactor of many community organizations and charities...
racehorse that won the 2022 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the American Triple Crown. He also won the WithersStakes and was second in the Wood Memorial...
wins with five, and has the most wins in the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes with six. He won the U.S. Triple Crown in 1941 on Whirlaway and again in...
in 1989, who went on to win the Belmont Stakes. He won two British Classic Races, taking the St. Leger Stakes with Boucher in 1972 and the 1,000 Guineas...
horses who won the Kentucky Derby, Travers Stakes, Belmont Stakes, Jerome Handicap, Phoenix Stakes and WithersStakes. Williamson was born a slave in Virginia...
Bold Reasoning, a first-crop sire who had won the Jersey Derby and WithersStakes in 1971. Bold Reasoning was a grandson of Bold Ruler, whose descendants...
Constitution won the 1977 WithersStakes and placed second three weeks later in the $200,000 grade 1 1977 Preakness Stakes to undefeated Seattle Slew...
immediate success with Salerno, a horse who won the Remsen Stakes in 1967 and placed in the WithersStakes in 1968. In 1975, Turner was handed a colt by Bold...
the Preakness Stakes, taking that one by eight lengths. He won the WithersStakes before heading to Elmont, New York for the Belmont Stakes where he captured...
won the WithersStakes in New York on May 24 and shortly thereafter completed the first Triple Crown in U.S. history by winning the Belmont Stakes on June...
organized fan clubs in his name." Native Dancer made his next start in the WithersStakes on May 16 at Belmont Park. Facing only two other horses, he went off...
Triple Crown champion War Admiral. His other wins included the one mile WithersStakes at New York's Aqueduct Racetrack and the mile-and-a-sixteenth Potomac...
week before the Preakness, Aloma's Ruler was scheduled to run in the WithersStakes, a mile race at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. However, trainer...
convincingly won the one-mile WithersStakes. Ridden by Mack Garner, he closed with a rush. He also took the 1½-mile Belmont Stakes, although he was again kicked...
two legs of the American Triple Crown–the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes–aboard different horses. Castellano began his riding career in 1996 at Santa...