Belmont Futurity Stakes

Futurity Stakes
Grade III race
LocationBelmont Park
Elmont, New York, United States
Inaugurated1888
Race typeThoroughbredFlat racing
Websitewww.nyra.com/belmont/
Race information
Distance6 furlongs
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationTwo-year-olds
WeightAssigned
Purse$175,000

The Futurity Stakes, commonly referred to as the Belmont Futurity, is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid-September or October at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, United States. Open to two-year-old horses, it is raced on turf over a distance of six furlongs.

The creation of James G. K. Lawrence, president of the Sheepshead Bay Race Track, the Futurity was originally run with the two-year-old offspring of mares which had been nominated before their birth. This rule remained in effect until 1957, when the race was opened to all two-year-old horses.[1]

The Futurity was run as a turf race for the first time in 2018. It was added to the Breeders' Cup Challenge series for 2018 as a "Win and You're In" qualifier for the Juvenile Turf Sprint.[2]

  1. ^ "Futurity". NYRA. 2021-12-28. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
  2. ^ "Breeders' Cup Adds Three Juvenile Turf Sprint Qualifiers". Thoroughbred Daily News. 25 June 2018.