Hawthorne Juvenile Stakes

Hawthorne Juvenile Stakes
Discontinued stakes race
LocationHawthorne Race Course, Stickney/Cicero, Illinois
United States
Inaugurated1927
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance1 1/16 miles
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationTwo-year-olds

The Hawthorne Juvenile Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually from 1927 through 1999 at Hawthorne Race Course in Stickney/Cicero, Illinois. The race was open to two-year-old horses and was last contested on dirt at a distance of a mile and a sixteenth (8.5 furlongs).

The inaugural edition took place on August 27, 1927, as the Chicago Juvenile Handicap at a distance of six furlongs on dirt. It was won by John W. Marchbank's filly, May Cooper.[1]

The race in 1999 was supplanted by the Jim Edgar Illinois Futurity, a race open to Illinois-bred two-year-old colts and geldings.

  1. ^ "Hawthorne - Feature the Chicago Juvenile Handicap went to May Cooper". Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, page 8. 1927-08-28. Retrieved 2021-10-11.