Listed race | |
Location | Aqueduct Racetrack Jamaica, New York, USA |
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Inaugurated | 1978 |
Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
Website | New York Racing Association |
Race information | |
Distance | 1 mile (8 furlongs) |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Left-handed |
Qualification | Three-year-old fillies |
Purse | $125,000 |
The Busher Stakes is an American Thoroughbred stakes horse race for three-year-old fillies run each February at Aqueduct Race Track in Jamaica, New York and as of 2016 carries a purse of $125,000.
The Busher Handicap is named in honor of champion racing mare Busher, Champion Two Year Old Filly of 1944.
The race was run at 1 mile (8 furlongs in 1978 and 1979 and at a mile and an eighth (9 furlongs) from 1985 to 1992. It was not run in 1986 and 1987.[1]