Junior Champion Stakes (Gravesend)

Junior Champion Stakes
Discontinued stakes race
LocationGravesend Race Track, Gravesend, New York, USA
Inaugurated1898–1908
Race typeThoroughbredFlat racing
Race information
Distanceabout 6 furlongs
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationTwo-years-old

The Junior Champion Stakes was a race for two-year-old Thoroughbred horses at Gravesend Race Track in Gravesend, on Coney Island, New York State. The September 18, 1909 edition of the Daily Racing Form stated that for a number of years it had been one of the East Coast's most important and valuable stakes for two-year-olds.[1]

Among the race winners, Mesmerist was chosen the 1899 American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse as was Commando (1900), Highball (1903), Sysonby (1904) and Salvidere in 1906.[2][3][4]