Top Flight Stakes


The Top Flight Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. A Listed race, it is open to fillies and mares, age three and older. The event is contested over a distance of one and one-eighth miles on dirt and currently offers a purse of $150,000.
The Top Flight Handicap was run at Belmont Park prior to 1961 and again in 1993.
The race is named for Top Flight, ranked in the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century at #66. Top Flight was never beaten by a member of her own sex.

Historical note

Poker Night, the lone three-year-old in a field of seven, won the 1973 race by four lengths and bettered the stakes record time stakes two‐fifths of a second while running on a wet track officially rated only as good.

Records

Speed record:
  • 1:48.20 @ 1-1/8 miles: Poker Night
  • 1:41.80 @ 1-1/16 miles: Parlo
  • 1:34.96 @ 1 mile: Educated Risk
Most wins:
Most wins by a jockey:
Most wins by a trainer:
  • 6 - Todd A. Pletcher
Most wins by an owner: