Tyro Stakes
The Tyro Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in July at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. A non-graded stakes race offering a current purse of $60,000, it is open to two-year-old horses weighted at 122 pounds with allowances. It was a run on a dirt track from inception until 2012 when it became a race on turf. It is currently contested at a distance of five furlongs.
In 1886, this race was won by Tremont, the United States Champion Two-Year-Old Male. Tremont won every one of his 13 races during a period of 10 weeks but refused to train at the age of three. The great California filly, Los Angeles, won this race in 1887.
Most wins by a jockey:
- 6 – Paco Lopez:
- 4 –Steve Asmussen:
- 4 – Wesley Ward:
- 3 – New Farm:
Winners since 1989
- 2018: off turf