Molly Pitcher Stakes

Molly Pitcher Stakes
Grade III race
LocationMonmouth Park
Oceanport, New Jersey, United States
Inaugurated1946
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewww.monmouthpark.com
Race information
Distance1+1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationFillies & Mares, three-years-old & up
WeightAssigned
Purse$100,000 (2016)

The Molly Pitcher Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race raced annually during the last week of August at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey. The race is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, over one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. This Grade III event currently carries a purse of $100,000.

The Molly Pitcher was reduced from a Grade II to a Grade III event in 2015 and had its purse lowered.[1]

In 1951, the Molly Pitcher was the first race in the United States ever to be televised in color.[2]

  1. ^ Equibase.com. "Molly Pitcher Stakes profile". www.equibase.com. Archived from the original on 2013-12-31. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
  2. ^ "First Color Television Broadcast of a Sporting Event was 60 Years Ago on July 14, 1951 by CBS". TV By The Numbers by zap2it.com. 2011-07-14. Archived from the original on 2017-07-17. Retrieved 2017-07-09.