Futurity Stakes (USA)
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The Futurity Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run each year at Belmont Park on Long Island, New York. Often referred to as trhe "Belmont Futurity," it is currently a Grade II event held annually in September for a purse of $250,000. Open to two-year-olds who are willing to run the seven furlong dirt distance, the Futurity is a major prep race to the fall Breeders' Cup Juvenile and the ensuing spring's Kentucky Derby.
The 2001 race was cancelled in observance of the September 11th Terrorist Attacks.
Inaugurated on Labor Day, 1888, the Futurity was first run at the now defunct Sheepshead Bay Race Track on Coney Island. At the time, it was the richest race ever run in the United States.
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