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Shevlin Stakes

Shevlin Stakes
Discontinued stakes race
Flat racing clipart.svg
Location Aqueduct Racetrack
Queens, New York
United States 1925-1945, 1947-1955
Belmont Park Elmont, New York (1946, 1956-1959)
Inaugurated 1925
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance 1 mile : 1925-1939
1 116 miles : 1940-1952
7 furlongs : 1953-1959
Surface Dirt
Track Left-handed
Qualification Three-years-old
Weight Assigned

The Shevlin Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York and at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The race on dirt was inaugurated in 1925 to honor the long service of James Shevlin, the President of the Queens County Jockey Club which operated Aqueduct Racetrack who had died at age 82 on November 24, 1924 at his home in Brooklyn.

There was no race run from 1933 through 1935.

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Most wins by a jockey:

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