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Athenia Stakes

Athenia Stakes
Grade III race
Location Belmont Park
Elmont, New York, United States
Inaugurated 1978
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website Athenia Handicap history at Belmont Park
Race information
Distance 1 116 miles (8.5 furlongs)
Surface Turf
Track Left-handed
Qualification Fillies & Mares, three-year-olds & up
Weight Assigned
Purse US$200,000 added

The Athenia Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid October at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Open to fillies and mares, age three and older, it is contested on turf at a distance of a mile and a sixteenth (8.5 furlongs).

The Athenia Stakes is named in honor of Hal Price Headley's filly who won the 1946 Ladies Handicap.

From its inception in 1978 through 1982, the Athenia was restricted to three-year-old fillies.

The race was hosted by Aqueduct Racetrack in 1982, 1998–2000 and 2002-2004.

It was run on dirt in 1979 and again in 1990 and was raced in two divisions in 1982 and 2001.

Since inception it has been contested at various distances:

Speed record: (at current distance of 1 116 miles)

Most wins:

Most wins by an owner:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:


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