Annual Champion Stakes

Annual Champion Stakes
Discontinued stakes race
LocationSheepshead Bay Race Track
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Inaugurated1900–1908
Race typeThoroughbredFlat racing
Race information
Distance2+14 miles (18 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree years olds and older
Weight3yos: 116 lbs.; 4yos: 130 lbs; 5yos & up: 131 lbs.
Purse$25,000

The Annual Champion Stakes is a discontinued Thoroughbred horse race run from 1900 through 1908 that was the richest in the United States at the time for older horses with a guarantee purse of $25,000. Run on dirt over a distance of two and one-quarter miles at the Sheepshead Bay Race Track in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, the race was open to horses age three and older.[1][2] The race was created to try to slow a decade-long trend to shorter distance races.[3]

  1. ^ "The Bard (U.S.)". Thoroughbred Heritage Portraits. 2018-11-22. Retrieved 2018-11-22.
  2. ^ "Condensed History Of The Annual Champion Stakes". Daily Racing Form. 1908-09-11. Retrieved 2018-11-24 – via University of Kentucky Archives.
  3. ^ "The Annual Champion Stakes". Daily Racing Form. 1899-02-12. Retrieved 2018-11-22 – via University of Kentucky Archives.[permanent dead link]