Select Stakes (United States)

For other uses, see Select Stakes (disambiguation).
Select Stakes
Ungraded stakes race
LocationMonmouth Park Racetrack
Oceanport, New Jersey
United States
Inaugurated1883
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitemonmouthpark.com
Race information
Distance5+1⁄2 furlongs
SurfaceDirt
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationThree-years-old
Purse$60,000 (2015)

The Select Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. First run in 1883,[1] the race is open to three-year-olds and is run over a distance of six furlongs on dirt.[2]

Among the notable winners of the Select are Champions Sheilas Reward in 1950,[3] Decathlon in 1956,[4] Nadir in 1958.[5] Shecky Greene in 1973,[6] Gallant Bob in 1975[7] plus in 1979, the Florida-bred Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Bold Ruckus.[8]

  1. ^ New York Times - August 26, 1883
  2. ^ Monmouth Park - August 6, 2011 Archived February 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ New York Times - June 25, 1950
  4. ^ New York Times - June 24, 1956
  5. ^ New York Times - June 15, 1958
  6. ^ New York Times - July 19, 1973
  7. ^ New York Times - August 14, 1975
  8. ^ Bold Ruckus at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine