Saranac Stakes


The Saranac Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Listed stakes event is open to three-year-old horses and is raced on turf over a distance of miles. The event, currently run in early September, raised its purse to $300,000 in 2014. As of 2023 the race is run for a purse of $175,000.
Inaugurated in 1901, the race is named for the village of Saranac in Clinton County, New York in the Adirondack Mountains. Due to a legislated ban on parimutuel betting, all New York State racetracks ceased operations in 1911 and 1912. Cancellation of the race occurred again from 1943 to 1947 as a result of World War II. When it returned in 1948, the race was shifted to the now defunct Jamaica Racetrack until 1956 when it was moved to Aqueduct Racetrack where it was held from 1957 to 1961, 1963–1967, 1972–1974, and in 1976.
In 2025 the event was downgraded by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to Listed status.
Raced on dirt until 1979, over the years the Saranac Stakes has been run at various distances:
  • 1 mile: 1960–1965, 2020
  • miles: 1948–1959, 2019, 2021–Present
  • miles: 1901–1908, 1910, 1996, 2011–2018
  • miles: 1997–2010

    Records

Most wins by an owner:
Most wins by a jockey:
Most wins by an trainer:
  • 5 – Woody Stephens

    Winners of the Saranac Stakes since 1938

  • In 1989, the race was run in two divisions.

    Earlier winners

  • 1937 – Burning Star
  • 1936 – Sun Teddy
  • 1935 – Good Gamble
  • 1934 – Kievex
  • 1933 – War Glory
  • 1932 – Morfair
  • 1931 – Danour
  • 1930 – Whichone
  • 1929 – Hard Tack
  • 1928 – Sun Edwin
  • 1927 – Osmand
  • 1926 – Mars
  • 1925 – Peanuts
  • 1924 – Sarazen
  • 1923 – Cherry Pie
  • 1922 – Little Chief
  • 1921 – Crocus
  • 1920 – Dinna Care
  • 1919 – Purchase
  • 1918 – Motor Cop
  • 1917 – Midway
  • 1916 – Dodge
  • 1915 – Regret
  • 1914 – Stromboli
  • 1913 – Ten Point
  • 1910 – Martinez
  • 1909 – Field Mouse
  • 1908 – Golconda
  • 1907 – Vails
  • 1906 – Gallavant
  • 1905 – Dandelion
  • 1904 – Dolly Spanker
  • 1903 – Molly Brant
  • 1902 – Hermis
  • 1901 – Dublin
Category:Flat horse races for three-year-olds
Category:Horse races in New York
Category:Turf races in the United States
Category:Saratoga Race Course
Category:Horse races established in 1901
Category:1901 establishments in New York
Category:Previously graded stakes races in the United States