Marguerite Stakes

Marguerite Stakes
Discontinued stakes race
LocationPimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland
Inaugurated1945
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance1116 miles (8.5 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationTwo-year-old fillies

The Marguerite Stakes was a Thoroughbred horse race at Pimlico Race Course, in Baltimore, Maryland run between 1945 and 1965. A race on dirt for two-year-old fillies, it was created as a companion event to the Pimlico Futurity and declared at the time to be one of the richest of its kind in the United States.[1] It was named in honor of Marguerite, one of the great broodmares in racing history. Marguerite was the dam of four significant runners including Triple Crown winner and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Gallant Fox.[2]

  1. ^ "The Marguerite, New Pimlico Stake". The Maryland Horse, page 10. 1942-11-01. Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  2. ^ "Marguerite Leading Brood Mare, Says Woodward". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1939-07-12. Retrieved 2019-06-07.