Dearly Precious Stakes

Dearly Precious Stakes
Ungraded stakes race
LocationAqueduct Racetrack
Queens, New York, United States
Inaugurated1995
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewww.nyra.com/Aqueduct/Stakes/DearlyPrecious.shtml
Race information
Distance6 furlong sprint
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-year-old fillies
WeightAssigned
Purse$65,000

The Dearly Precious Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid February at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. Open to three-year-old fillies, the non-graded stakes is contested on dirt over a distance of six furlongs.

The race is named in honor of Dearly Precious, the 1975 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly who was in the hunt for another Championship at age three when she suffered a career-ending injury on July 11, 1976 while winning the Dark Mirage Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack.