June Stakes
| Class | Defunct horse race |
|---|---|
| Location | Sheepshead Bay Race Track, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Inaugurated | 1886 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 5.5 furlongs |
| Surface | Dirt |
| Track | left-handed |
| Qualification | Two-year-olds |
The June Stakes was a Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds of either sex run annually for sixteen years from its inauguration in 1886 through 1901 at Sheepshead Bay Race Track in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York.
The first running in 1886 was won by the Dwyer Brothers Stable colt Tremont for whom Tremont Stakes at Belmont Park was established in 1887 at the Gravesend Race Track as a race for two-year-olds. That race is still current in 2025 and run at Belmont Park.[1]
Dropped from the 1902 schedule, the June 28, 1901 June Stakes would turn out to be the final edition.[2] In a field of only four starters, jockey Tommy Burns, a future United States and Canadian Hall of Fame inductee, rode the John Madden owned and trained colt Peninsula to victory.[3]
Distances
[edit]5.5 F: 1900, 1901
5.75 F: 1890
6 F: 1886–1889
Records
[edit]Speed record:
- at 5.5 furlongs : 1:07.00 – Peninsula (1901)
- at 5.75 furlongs : 1:12.00 – Rusher (1898) [4]
- at 6 furlongs : 1:10.80 – La Tosca (1890),[5] Hazlet (1895)[6]
Most wins by a jockey:
- 4 - Fred Taral (1891, 1892, 1896, 1899)
Most wins by a trainer:
- 2 - James G. Rowe Sr. (1890, 1897)
Most wins by an owner:
- No owner won this race more than once.
Winners
[edit]| Year | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Owner |
Dist. (Miles) |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | Peninsula | Tommy Burns | John E. Madden | John E. Madden | 5.5 F | 1:07.00 |
| 1900 | Holstein | Nash Turner | John W. Rogers | William C. Whitney | 5.5 F | 1:09.00 |
| 1899 | Prestidigitator | Nash Turner | William C. Smith | George E. Smith | 6 F | 1:17.00 |
| 1898 | Rusher | Fred Taral | Michael J. Daly | William C. Daly | 5.75 F | 1:12.00 |
| 1897 | Blarney Stone | Tod Sloan | James G. Rowe Sr. | Lewis S. Thompson | 5.75 F | 1:12.20 |
| 1896 | Scottish Chieftain | Fred Taral | Matthew Byrnes | Marcus Daly | 6 F | 1:12.40 |
| 1895 | Hazlet | Henry Griffin | John J. Hyland | David Gideon & John Daly | 6 F | 1:10.80 |
| 1894 | The Bluffer | Samuel Doggett | Walter C. Rollins | Oneck Stable | 6 F | 1:12.20 |
| 1893 | Dobbins | John Lamley | Hardy Campbell Jr. | Richard Croker | 6 F | 1:14.00 |
| 1892 | Mendicant | Fred Taral | S. W. "Doc" Streett | S. W. "Doc" Streett | 6 F | 1:14.60 |
| 1891 | Victory | Fred Taral | William Lakeland | William Lakeland | 6 F | 1:13.80 |
| 1890 | La Tosca | Anthony Hamilton | James G. Rowe Sr. | August Belmont Sr. | 5.75 F | 1:10.80 |
| 1889 | Cayuga | Fred Littlefield | R. Wyndham Walden | John A. & Alfred H. Morris | 6 F | 1:16.80 |
| 1888 | Diablo | Edward H. Garrison | James H. Dumas | Castle Stable (Mr. A. Kraemer) | 6 F | 1:17.00 |
| 1887 | Torchlight | P. Godfrey | Andrew Thompson | William Lawrence Scott | 6 F | 1:16.50 |
| 1886 | Tremont | Jim McLaughlin | Frank McCabe | Dwyer Brothers Stable | 6 F | 1:18.25 |
References
[edit]- ^ "NYRA announces stakes schedule for the 2025 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival". NYRA. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
- ^ "Coney Island Stake Dates". Daily Racing Form. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ "HEAD FINISH FOR STAKE; Peninsula Was First of Three in a Hot Fight for the June". The New York Times, Page 7. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ "Racing at Sheepshead". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
- ^ "Second Race – The June Stakes". Indianapolis Journal. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
- ^ "June Stakes For Hazlet". The New York Times, page 10. Retrieved 3 March 2025.