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Athenia Stakes
Listed race
Location Belmont Park
Elmont, New York, United States
Inaugurated1978 (as Athenia Handicap)
Race type Thoroughbred – Flat racing
Website NYRA
Race information
Distance1+1⁄8 miles
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationFillies & Mares, three-year-olds and older
WeightBase weights with allowances:
4-year-olds and up: 126 lbs.
3-year-olds: 122 lbs.
PurseUS150,000 (2023)

The Athenia Stakes is a Listed American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares age three-years-old and older run over at a distance of a mile and an eighth on the turf held annually in October at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The event offers a purse of US150,000.

History

The Athenia Stakes is named in honor of Hal Price Headley's filly Athenia, who won in 1946 the Ladies Handicap over the distance of 1+1⁄2 miles as well as the Misty Isle Handicap and Artful Handicap at Washington Park Race Track in Chicago. [1] Athenia also was the granddam of Sir Ivor, the 1968 Horse of the Year in the United Kingdom and Leading broodmare sire in Britain & Ireland in 1983.

The inaugural running of the event was on 13 September 1978 as The Athenia Handicap for three-year-old fillies at 1+1⁄4 miles in distance and was won by the Terpsichorist who was trained by the US Hall of Fame trainer Woody Stephens and ridden by Michael Venezia in a time of 2:031⁄5. [2] The event continued to be restricted to three-year-old fillies until 1983.

In 1980 the event was classified as Grade III. [3] In 2005 the event was moved to the main track due to the inclement weather and consequently was downgraded. [3]

The race has been held at Aqueduct Racetrack several times with the last such running in 2004. [4]

The event was raced in split divisions in 1982 and 2001. [5]

The event has been contested at various distances over its history with the current distance of 1+1⁄8 miles being reinstated in 2021. [3]

The event in 2022 was moved to Aqueduct Racetrack due to infield tunnel and redevelopment work at Belmont Park. [6]

In 2023 the event was downgraded by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to Listed status [7]

Records

Speed record:

  • 1+1⁄16 miles: 1:39.94 – Pianist (2013)
  • 1+1⁄8 miles: 1:47.11 – Rapid Selection (1997)
  • 1+1⁄4 miles: 2:00.40 – Love Sign (1980), De La Rosa (1981)
  • 1+3⁄8 miles: 2:13.20 – Capades (1989)

Margins:

  • 20 lengths – Rose Crescent (1983)

Most wins:

  • 2 – Babae (2001, 2002)

Most wins by an owner:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

  • 8 – Chad C. Brown (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

Winners

Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer Owner Distance Time Purse Grade Ref
At Aqueduct – Athenia Stakes
2023 Technical Analysis ( IRE) 5 Jose L. Ortiz Chad C. Brown Klaravich Stables 1+1⁄8 miles 1:49.20 $150,000 Listed [8]
2022 Love And Thunder ( IRE) 5 Jose L. Ortiz Chad C. Brown John D. Gunther & Tanya Gunther 1+1⁄8 miles 1:50.07 $169,750 III [9]
At Belmont Park
2021 Pocket Squares ( GB) 4 Jose L. Ortiz Chad C. Brown Juddmonte Farms 1+1⁄8 miles 1:51.19 $194,000 III [10]
2020 Tapit Today 5 Jose L. Ortiz Chad C. Brown William H. Lawrence & Bradley Thoroughbreds 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.56 $100,000 III [11]
2019 Xenobia (IRE) 5 John R. Velazquez Jonathan Thomas Augustin Stable 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.21 $200,000 III [12]
2018 Rymska (FR) 4 Irad Ortiz Jr. Chad C. Brown Sheep Pond Partners, Alain Jathiere, Thomas Coleman & Elayne Stables 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.59 $200,000 III [13]
2017 Off Limits (IRE) 5 Joel Rosario Chad C. Brown Martin S. Schwartz 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.73 $200,000 III [14]
2016 Roca Rojo (IRE) 4 Javier Castellano Chad C. Brown Sheep Pond Partners, Newport Stables & Bradley Thoroughbreds 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.20 $200,000 III [15]
2015 Stellar Path (FR) 4 Joel Rosario Christophe Clement Trevor C. Stewart 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.41 $200,000 III [16]
2014 La Tia 5 Joel Rosario Armando De La Cerda Salvador Hernandez 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.36 $200,000 III [17]
2013 Pianist 4 Jose L. Ortiz Chad C. Brown Hidden Brook Farm & Dan Zucker 1+1⁄16 miles 1:39.94 $200,000 III [18]
2012 La Cloche 5 Junior Alvarado James J. Toner Phillips Racing Partnership 1+1⁄16 miles 1:45.15 $150,000 III [19]
2011 Denomination 5 Joe Bravo Christophe Clement Ghislaine Head 1+1⁄16 miles 1:44.17 $100,000 III [20]
2010 Eye of Taurus 4 Eddie Castro Kiaran P. McLaughlin Harvey A. Clarke 1+1⁄16 miles 1:47.04 $100,000 III [21]
2009 Belle Allure (IRE) 4 Ramon A. Dominguez Christophe Clement Ronchalon Stable 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.30 $106,500 III [22]
Athenia Handicap
2008 Sunshine for Life 4 Channing Hill Richard E. Schosberg Jane M. Schosberg 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.55 $110,300 III [23]
2007 Criminologist 4 John R. Velazquez Claude R. McGaughey III Stuart S. Janney III & Phipps Stable 1+1⁄16 miles 1:45.09 $109,100 III [24]
2006 Pommes Frites 4 Jose A. Santos William I. Mott Haras Santa Maria de Araras 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.95 $112,300 III [25]
2005 Asti (IRE) 4 Jorge F. Chavez H. Allen Jerkens H. Joseph Allen 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.57 $111,300 Listed Off turf [26]
At Aqueduct
2004 Finery 4 Pablo Fragoso William H. Turner Jr. Althea D. Richards 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.73 $115,700 III [27]
2003 Caught in the Rain 4 Richard Migliore Guadalupe Preciado Heiligbrodt Stable & Walter L. New 1+1⁄16 miles 1:47.00 $113,000 III [28]
2002 Babae (CHI) 6 Jorge F. Chavez Frank A. Alexander Joseph Platt Jr. 1+1⁄16 miles 1:44.90 $116,700 III [29]
At Belmont Park
2001 Verruma (BRZ) 5 John R. Velazquez Angel A. Penna Jr. Earle I. Mack & Jael Barros 1+1⁄16 miles 1:40.40 $137,875 III Division 1 [30]
Babae (CHI) 5 Jorge F. Chavez Frank A. Alexander Joseph Platt Jr. 1:42.09 $137,875 Division 2 [31]
At Aqueduct
2000 Wild Heart Dancing 4 Jorge F. Chavez Eugene F. Brajczewski Jr. My Jo Lee Stable 1+1⁄16 miles 1:43.40 $112,500 III [32]
1999 Antoniette 4 Jorge F. Chavez Joseph P. Schlich Calumet Farm 1+1⁄16 miles 1:41.89 $111,400 III [33]
1998 Tampico 5 Joe Bravo Barclay Tagg Ronald G. Cullis 1+1⁄16 miles 1:42.90 $85,350 III [34]
At Belmont Park
1997 Rapid Selection 4 Joe Bravo Linda L. Rice Clyde D. Rice 1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.11 $109,900 III [35]
1996 Sixieme Sens 4 Jerry D. Bailey Robert J. Frankel Three Plus U Stable 1 mile 1:37.80 $111,100 III [36]
At Aqueduct
1995 Caress 4 Robbie Davis H. Allen Jerkens Harbor View Farm 1+1⁄8 miles 1:54.18 $113,900 III Off turf [37]
1994 Lady Affirmed 3 Jorge F. Chavez H. Allen Jerkens Harbor View Farm 1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.66 $87,076 III [38]
At Belmont Park
1993 Trampoli 4 Mike E. Smith Christophe Clement Paul de Moussac 1+3⁄8 miles 2:17.16 $90,000 III [39]
1992 Fairy Garden 4 Julie Krone Roger L. Attfield Michael J. Ryan 1+3⁄8 miles 2:13.62 $86,700 III [40]
1991 Flaming Torch (IRE) 4 Pat Valenzuela Robert J. Frankel Juddmonte Farms 1+3⁄8 miles 2:13.99 $93,000 III [41]
1990 Buy the Firm 4 Jerry D. Bailey Jose A. Martin Thomas Mara 1+3⁄8 miles 2:18.20 $87,750 III Off turf [42]
1989 Capades 3 Angel Cordero Jr. Richard O'Connell Poma Stable 1+3⁄8 miles 2:13.20 $90,800 III [43]
1988 High Browser 3 Pat Day MacKenzie Miller Rokeby Stables 1+3⁄8 miles 2:18.60 $96,300 III [44]
1987 Lead Kindly Light 4 Julio Molina Pezua Angel A. Penna Jr. Cynthia Phipps 1+3⁄8 miles 2:23.80 $94,800 III [45]
1986 Dawn's Curtsey 4 Eddie Maple John M. Veitch Darby Dan Farm 1+3⁄8 miles 2:16.00 $92,400 III [46]
1985 Videogenic 3 Jean Cruguet Gasper S. Moschera Albert Davis 1+3⁄8 miles 2:15.40 $101,700 III [47]
1984 Key Dancer 3 Angel Cordero Jr. William J. Hirsch Jr. Oxford Stable 1+3⁄8 miles 2:14.80 $94,500 III [48]
1983 Rose Crescent 3 Robbie Davis MacKenzie Miller Rokeby Stables 1+3⁄8 miles 2:22.00 $57,300 III [49]
At Aqueduct – for 3YO fillies
1982 Mintage (FR) 3 Jean-Luc Samyn Philip G. Johnson Meadowhill 1+3⁄8 miles 2:17.80 $54,650 III Division 1 [50]
Middle Stage 3 Jimmy J. Miranda John P. Campo Buckland Farm 2:17.40 $54,650 Division 2 [51]
At Belmont Park – for 3YO fillies
1981 De La Rose 3 Eddie Maple Woodford C. Stephens Henryk de Kwiatkowski 1+1⁄4 miles 2:00.40 $85,200 III [52]
1980 Love Sign 3 Ruben Hernandez Sidney J. Watters Jr. Stephen C. Clark Jr. 1+1⁄4 miles 2:00.40 $84,150 III [53]
1979 Poppycock 3 Jorge Velasquez Woodford C. Stephens Claiborne Farm 1+1⁄4 miles 2:03.60 $87,450 Off turf [54]
1978 Terpsichorist 3 Michael Venezia Woodford C. Stephens Hickory Tree Stable 1+1⁄4 miles 2:03.20 $55,500 [2]

Legend:
  Dirt   Turf

:See also

References

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