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Northern Dancer Stakes

Northern Dancer Stakes
Grade III race
Location Churchill Downs
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Inaugurated 2002
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.churchilldowns.com
Race information
Distance (1 116 miles) (8.5 furlongs)
Surface Dirt
Track left-handed
Qualification Three-year-olds
Purse US $150,000 Added

The Northern Dancer Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid-June at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

Named in honor of the horse, Northern Dancer, the Grade III stakes for three-year-olds is run on dirt over a distance of 8.5 furlongs (1 116 miles).

The race currently offers a purse of $150,000.

Canadian-bred and owned honoree Northern Dancer (1961–1990) won the 1964 Kentucky Derby in record time on the Churchill Downs track. He went on to win the Preakness Stakes and Queen's Plate. Retired from racing, Northern Dancer became the most important sire and sire of sires in the second half of the 20th century.



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