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Lamplighter Handicap

Lamplighter Stakes
Non-graded stakes race
Location Monmouth Park Racetrack
Oceanport, New Jersey, United States
Inaugurated 1946
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.monmouthpark
Race information
Distance 1 116 miles (8.5 furlongs)
Surface Turf
Track Left-handed
Qualification Three-years-old
Weight Assigned
Purse $65,000

The Lamplighter Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the last week of May at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Open to three-year-old horses, it is contested on turf over a distance of 1 116 miles (8.5 furlongs).

Inaugurated in 1946 as the Lamplighter Handicap, the race was named to honor Lamplighter, the 1893 American Co-Champion Older Male Horse owned by proment horseman Pierre Lorillard IV who had been an co-owner of the Monmouth Park Association's racetrack.

Since inception, the race has been contested at various distances on both dirt and turf:

On July 1, 1978 the legendary U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, John Henry, made his turf stakes debut with a third-place finish in the second division of the Lamplighter.

Speed record:

Most wins by an owner:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:


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