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Whitney Stakes
ClassGrade I
LocationSaratoga Race Course
Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Inaugurated1928
Race typeThoroughbred, Flat racing
WebsiteSaratoga Race Course
Race information
DistancePage Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles (9 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationFour-year-olds and Up
Weight124 lbs with allowances
PurseUS$1,000,000[1]

The Whitney Stakes (run as the Whitney Handicap through 2013 and still sometimes referred to as such) is an American Grade 1 stakes race for Thoroughbred racehorses four years of age and older run at a distance of Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles. The current purse is $1,000,000.[1]

Held annually in late July/early August at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York, the race is named for the Whitney family, whose members were and remain prominent participants and supporters of the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing.[2]

History

The Whitney Stakes is administered by the New York Racing Association.

Named after the family that for generations has had so much to do with racing at Saratoga, the Whitney Handicap was first run in 1928. The Whitney family’s involvement with thoroughbreds began when William Collins Whitney, one of the founders of The Jockey Club, began campaigning racehorses in 1898, bearing the familiar Eton blue-and-brown silks. His legacy was carried on by his son, Harry Payne Whitney, and grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt “Sonny” Whitney, who died in 1992, with other family members involved under various names including Greentree Stables. Whitney-owned horses have won every major race in the United States including multiple wins at the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes.[3]

The Whitney was raced at a distance of Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles from its inception in 1928 until 1955, when the distance was reduced to Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles. Until 1940 it was closed to geldings. The inaugural running was won by William R. Coe's two-time Champion Filly, Black Maria. During World War II, the race was run at Belmont Park from 1943 through 1945, and again once in 1961. Between 1957 and 1969 the race was restricted to horses four years and older. The race then was open to three-year-olds and older until 2019. In 2020 when Saratoga Race Course was closed to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic, the race was restricted again to four-year-olds and up; the age restriction has remained ever since.[4]

Some of the greatest horses in American racing history have won the Whitney, including Easy Goer, Tom Fool, Dr. Fager, Stymie, Invasor, Slew o' Gold, Alydar, Ancient Title, Key to the Mint, Devil Diver, Eight Thirty, War Admiral, Discovery, Equipoise and Kelso, who won it for the third time in 1965 at the age of eight. The race also saw one of the most dramatic upsets in racing history when Secretariat finished second in the 1973 Whitney to Allen Jerkens's colt, Onion. Six fillies have won the race: Black Maria (1928), Bateau (1929), Esposa (1937), Gallorette (1948), Lady's Secret (1986), and Personal Ensign (1988).

In 2007, the Breeders' Cup Ltd. introduced the Breeders' Cup Challenge "Win and You're In" qualification format, under which the winner of the Whitney Stakes automatically qualifies for the fall running of the Breeders' Cup Classic.

In the 2015 listing of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA), the Whitney tied with the Kentucky Derby as the top Grade 1 race in the United States outside of the Breeders' Cup races.[5]

Records

Speed record:

Most wins:

Most wins by an owner:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Winners

Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer Owner Distance Time
2025 Sierra Leone 4 Flavien Prat Chad C. Brown Peter M. Brant, Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, Westerberg & Brook T. Smith Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.92
2024 Arthur's Ride 4 Junior Alvarado William I. Mott Glassman Racing Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.54
2023 White Abarrio 4 Irad Ortiz Jr. Richard E. Dutrow Jr. C Two Racing Stable & Antonio Pagnano Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.45
2022 Life Is Good 4 Irad Ortiz Jr. Todd A. Pletcher WinStar Farm & China Horse Club Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.97
2021 Knicks Go 5 Joel Rosario Brad H. Cox KRA Stud Farm Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.70
2020 Improbable 4 Irad Ortiz Jr. Bob Baffert WinStar Farm, China Horse Club & SF Racing LLC Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.65
2019 McKinzie 4 Mike E. Smith Bob Baffert Karl Watson, Michael E. Pegram, Paul Weitman Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.10
2018 Diversify 5 Irad Ortiz Jr. Richard Violette Jr. Lauren & Ralph Evans Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:49.62
2017 Gun Runner 4 Florent Geroux Steven M. Asmussen Winchell Thoroughbreds & Three Chimneys Farm Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.71
2016 Frosted 4 Joel Rosario Kiaran McLaughlin Godolphin Racing Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.77
2015 Honor Code 4 Javier Castellano Claude R. McGaughey III Lane's End Farm Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.82
2014 Moreno 4 Junior Alvarado Eric Guillot Southern Equine Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.05
2013 Cross Traffic 4 John R. Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher GoldMark Farm, LLC Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.89
2012 Fort Larned 4 Brian Hernandez Jr. Ian R. Wilkes Janis R. Whitham Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.76
2011 Tizway 6 Rajiv Maragh H. James Bond William L. Clifton Jr. Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:52.43
2010 Blame 4 Garrett Gomez Albert Stall Jr. Adele B. Dilschneider Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.88
2009 Bullsbay 5 Jeremy Rose H. Graham Motion Mitchell Ranch LLC Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.12
2008 Commentator 7 John R. Velazquez Nick Zito Tracy Farmer Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:50.23
2007 Lawyer Ron 4 John R. Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Hines Racing LLC Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:46.64
2006 Invasor 4 Fernando Jara Kiaran McLaughlin Shadwell Racing Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:49.06
2005 Commentator 4 Gary Stevens Nick Zito Tracy Farmer Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.33
2004 Roses in May 4 Edgar Prado Dale L. Romans Ken & Sarah Ramsey Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.54
2003 Medaglia d'Oro 4 Jerry Bailey Robert J. Frankel Edmund A. Gann Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.69
2002 Left Bank 5 John R. Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Michael B. Tabor Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47:04
2001 Lido Palace 4 Jerry Bailey Robert J. Frankel John Amerman Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.94
2000 Lemon Drop Kid 4 Edgar Prado Scotty Schulhofer Jeanne G. Vance Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.30
1999 Victory Gallop 4 Jerry Bailey Elliott Walden Prestonwood Farm Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.66
1998 Awesome Again 4 Pat Day Patrick B. Byrne Stronach Stables Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:49.71
1997 Will's Way 4 Jerry Bailey H. James Bond Rudlein Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.37
1996 Mahogany Hall 5 José A. Santos James Baker Woodlyn Farm Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.60
1995 Unaccounted For 4 Pat Day Scotty Schulhofer Morven Stud Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:49.20
1994 Colonial Affair 4 José A. Santos Scotty Schulhofer Centennial Farms Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.60
1993 Brunswick 4 Mike E. Smith Anthony Margotta Jerry Denker Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.40
1992 Sultry Song 4 Jerry Bailey Patrick Kelly Live Oak Racing Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.20
1991 In Excess 4 Gary Stevens Bruce L. Jackson Jack J. Munari Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.00
1990 Criminal Type 5 Gary Stevens D. Wayne Lukas Calumet Farm Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.60
1989 Easy Goer 3 Pat Day Claude R. McGaughey III Ogden Phipps Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.40
1988 Personal Ensign 4 Randy Romero Claude R. McGaughey III Ogden Phipps Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.80
1987 Java Gold 3 Pat Day MacKenzie Miller Rokeby Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.40
1986 Lady's Secret 4 Pat Day D. Wayne Lukas Eugene V. Klein Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:49.80
1985 Track Barron 4 Ángel Cordero Jr. LeRoy Jolley Peter M. Brant Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.60
1984 Slew o' Gold 4 Ángel Cordero Jr. John O. Hertler Equusequity Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.20
1983 Island Whirl 5 Ed Delahoussaye Laz Barrera Elcee-H Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.40
1982 Silver Buck 4 Don MacBeth J. Elliott Burch C. V. Whitney Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.80
1981 Fio Rito 6 Leslie Hulet Michael Ferraro Raymond LeCesse Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.00
1980 State Dinner 5 Ruben Hernandez J. Elliott Burch C. V. Whitney Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.20
1979 Star de Naskra 4 Jeffrey Fell Richard D. Ferris Caryle J. Lancaster Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.60
1978 Alydar 3 Jorge Velásquez John M. Veitch Calumet Farm Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.40
1977 Nearly On Time 3 Steve Cauthen LeRoy Jolley Mrs. Moody Jolley Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:49.40
1976 Dancing Gun 4 Roger Velez Laz Barrera Gedney Farms Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:50.00
1975 Ancient Title 5 Sandy Hawley Keith L. Stucki Sr. Ethel Kirkland Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.20
1974 Tri Jet 5 Laffit Pincay Jr. Charles R. Parke Fred W. Hooper Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:47.00
1973 Onion 4 Jacinto Vásquez H. Allen Jerkens Hobeau Farm Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:49.20
1972 Key To The Mint 3 Braulio Baeza J. Elliott Burch Rokeby Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:49.20
1971 Protanto 4 Jorge Velásquez MacKenzie Miller Cragwood Stables Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:49.40
1970 Judgable 3 Robert Woodhouse Herbert Nadler Saul Nadler Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.40
1969 Verbatim 4 Pete Anderson James P. Conway Elmendorf Farm Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:50.00
1968 Dr. Fager 4 Braulio Baeza John A. Nerud Tartan Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.80
1967 Stupendous 4 Eddie Belmonte Edward A. Neloy Wheatley Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.20
1966 Staunchness 4 Ernest Cardone Victor J. Nickerson Red Oak Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:50.20
1965 Kelso 8 Ismael Valenzuela Carl Hanford Bohemia Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:49.80
1964 Gun Bow 4 Walter Blum Edward A. Neloy Gedney Farms Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:49.20
1963 Kelso 6 Ismael Valenzuela Carl Hanford Bohemia Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:50.40
1962 Carry Back 4 Johnny Sellers Jack A. Price Katherine Price Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:50.00
1961 Kelso 4 Eddie Arcaro Carl Hanford Bohemia Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:48.00
1960 Warhead 5 Mike Sorrentino Kay Erik Jensen Mabel C. Scholtz Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:51.00
1959 Plion 4 Manuel Ycaza Tom Jolley Edward M. Potter Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:53.00
1958 Cohoes 4 John Ruane John M. Gaver Sr. Greentree Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:51.60
1957 Kingmaker 4 Bobby Ussery Frank I. Wright Happy Hill Farm Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:52.80
1956 Dedicate 4 William Boland G. Carey Winfrey Jan Burke Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:49.80
1955 First Aid 5 Hedley Woodhouse J. Elliott Burch Brookmeade Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄8 miles 1:51.60
1954 Social Outcast 4 Eric Guerin William C. Winfrey Alfred G. Vanderbilt II Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:04.40
1953 Tom Fool 4 Ted Atkinson John M. Gaver Sr. Greentree Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:05.40
1952 Counterpoint 4 Dave Gorman Sylvester Veitch Cornelius V. Whitney Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:05.60
1951 One Hitter 5 Ted Atkinson John M. Gaver Sr. Greentree Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:05.00
1950 Piet 5 Nick Combest R. Emmett Potts BoMar Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:06.60
1949 Round View 6 Sebastian Perez Hollie Hughes Sanford Stud Farms Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:06.60
1948 Gallorette 6 Arnold Kirkland Edward A. Christmas William L. Brann Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:05.20
1947 Rico Monte 5 Ruperto Donoso Horatio Luro W. Arnold Hanger Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:02.60
1946 Stymie 5 Basil James Hirsch Jacobs Ethel D. Jacobs Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:07.40
1945 Trymenow 3 Herb Lindberg Oscar White Walter M. Jeffords Sr. Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:02.20
1944 Devil Diver 5 Eddie Arcaro John M. Gaver Sr. Greentree Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:02.00
1943 Bolingbroke 6 Herb Lindberg Walter Burrows Townsend B. Martin Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:02.00
1942 Swing and Sway 4 Don Meade John M. Gaver Sr. Greentree Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:05.40
1941 Fenelon 4 James Stout James Fitzsimmons Belair Stud Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:06.40
1940 Challedon 4 George Woolf Louis Schaefer William L. Brann Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:03.20
1939 Eight Thirty 3 Harry Richards Bert Mulholland George D. Widener Jr. Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:06.20
1938 War Admiral 4 Wayne D. Wright George Conway Glen Riddle Farm Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:03.80
1937 Esposa 5 Nick Wall Matthew P. Brady William Ziegler Jr. Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:05.20
1936 Discovery 5 John Bejshak Bud Stotler Alfred G. Vanderbilt II Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:06.80
1935 Discovery 4 John Bejshak Bud Stotler Alfred G. Vanderbilt II Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:04.80
1934 Discovery 3 Don Meade Bud Stotler Alfred G. Vanderbilt II Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:07.80
1933 Caesar's Ghost 3 Dominick Bellizzi Jack J. Connors Brookmeade Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:10.80
1932 Equipoise 4 Raymond Workman Thomas J. Healey C. V. Whitney Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:05.60
1931 St. Brideaux 3 Linus McAtee James G. Rowe Jr. Greentree Stable Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:05.00
1930 Whichone 3 Raymond Workman Thomas J. Healey Harry Payne Whitney Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:04.00
1929 Bateau 4 Eddie Ambrose Scott P. Harlan Walter M. Jeffords Sr. Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:09.40
1928 Black Maria 5 Laverne Fator William H. Karrick William R. Coe Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1+1⁄4 miles 2:06.00

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* 1961 – Our Hope won the race but was disqualified from 1st to 2nd.

References

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  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."History of the Travers and Whitney" (PDF). nyra.com. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Whitney Stakes at the New York Racing Association" (PDF). NYRA Media Guide. 2016.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2020 Whitney Stakes Grade 1 - (race 9)". Equibase. 1 August 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The World's Top 100 G1 Races for 3yo's and upwards" (PDF). www.ifhaonline.org. International Federation of Horseracing Authorities. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
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