Bertram F. Bongard Stakes
The Bertram F. Bongard Stakes is a listed stakes race for Thoroughbred two-year-olds run in the fall at Belmont Park, New York.
At a distance of 7 furlongs, it will be in its 39th running in 2016. The Bongard is a major prep race for up-and-coming young horses and offers a purse of $150,000. Though not restricted to New York-bred horses, this is not an open race: it is considered an event on the New York-bred schedule.
This race was run at a mile and an eighth before 1983 and also from 1984 to 1988. It was run at seven furlongs in 1983, and from 1996 to the present. It was set at a mile and a sixteenth from 1989 to 1993 and at six furlongs in 1994 and 1995. Run for three-year-olds and older before 1984, it is now run for two-year-olds only.
Named for Bertram F. Bongard, who was a founding director of the Eastern New York Thoroughbred Breeders' Association, initially run for three-year-olds and older until 1984, but it is now strictly for two-year-olds. Before 1984, it was called the Bertram F. Bongard Handicap.
Winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, Funny Cide, won this race in 2003.
Past winners
- 2024 – Sacrosanct
- 2016 – Mirai
- 2015 – Sudden Surprise
- 2014 – Saratoga Heater
- 2013 – Wired Bryan
- 2012 – Weekend Hideaway
- 2011 – RACE NOT RUN?
- 2010 – RACE NOT RUN
- 2009 – Make Note
- 2008 – Trinity Magic
- 2007 – Big Truck
- 2006 – I'm A Numbers Guy
- 2005 – Sharp Humor
- 2004 – Up Like Thunder
- 2003 – Flagshipenterprise
- 2002 – Funny Cide
- 2001 – White Ibis
- 2000 – Le Grande Danseur
- 1999 – Image Maker
- 1998 – David
- 1997 – Ruby Hill
- 1996 – Patent Pending
- 1995 – Out To Win
- 1994 – Cyrano
- 1993 – Bit of Puddin
- 1992 – Over the Brink
- 1991 – Phantom Finn
- 1990 – Well Well Well
- 1989 – Applebred
- 1988 – Gold Oak
- 1987 – Notebook
- 1986 – Sweet Envoy
- 1985 – Wild Wood
- 1984 – Hot Debate
- 1983 – Master Digby
- 1982 – Fearless Leader
- 1981 – Accipiter's Hope
- 1980 – Fio Rito
- 1979 – International
- 1978 – Judging Man