Affectionately Handicap

Affectionately Stakes
Discontinued stakes race
LocationAqueduct Racetrack
Queens, New York,
United States
Inaugurated1976
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance1-1/16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
TrackDirt, left-handed
QualificationRacemares, four-years-old and up
WeightAssigned
Purse$100,000

The Affectionately Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run between 1976 and 2015 at New York's Aqueduct Race Track.[1]

The one and one-sixteenth mile listed stakes event was for fillies and mares, three-years-old and up, offering a purse of $100,000 added. Through 2004 it was a Grade III Stakes.[2]

The race was named for the great racing filly Affectionately. She was ranked Number 81 in the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century. Affectionately was called the "Queen of Aqueduct" during her racing days.

In 1976 the race was run at one mile. In 1977, 1983, and 1985, it was run in two divisions.

  1. ^ "Affectionately Stakes". Equibase Co., LLC. 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  2. ^ "Charts". Equibase. Retrieved 10 May 2023.