Iroquois Steeplechase

Iroquois Steeplechase
Grade I race
LocationPercy Warner Park
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Inaugurated1941
Race typeThoroughbred – Steeplechase
WebsiteIroquois Steeplechase
Race information
Distance3 miles
SurfaceTurf
TrackSteeplechase, national fences
QualificationFour-Year-Olds and Upward
WeightFour-year-olds, 142 lbs.; older, 158 lbs.
Purse$150,000

The Iroquois Steeplechase (also known as the Iroquois Hurdle Stakes) is an American Grade I NSA sanctioned steeplechase race run each May at Percy Warner Park in Nashville, Tennessee.

The race dates back to 1941 and has been held annually, except in 1945, due to World War II, and in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] The Iroquois itself is the culmination of a card of races which usually includes five to seven preliminary races, both flat races and steeplechases. The race is named for Iroquois, the first American-bred Thoroughbred to win the prestigious British Epsom Derby.[2]

Several winners of the race have been named American Champion Steeplechase Horse, including Flatterer, Lonesome Glory, Correggio, All Gong, Good Night Shirt, Pierrot Lunaire, Divine Fortune, Demonstrative, Rawnaq, and Scorpiancer.

The race is three miles (4.8 km) long, over national fences and for four-year-olds and over.[3]

  1. ^ Jen Todd (April 23, 2015). "Iroquois Steeplechase is a historical tradition". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. Archived from the original on May 16, 2021. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
  2. ^ "History". Iroquois Steeplechase. Archived from the original on 2018-03-31. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  3. ^ "Iroquois Steeplechase". Iroquois Steeplechase.[permanent dead link]