Sleepy Hollow Stakes

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The Sleepy Hollow is an ungraded restricted stakes race for two-year-olds held in the fall at Belmont Park, New York. Though not restricted to New York bred horses, this is not an open race: it is considered a race on the New York bred schedule.

At a distance of one mile, and in its 14th running in 2007, it's a major step up for talented and hopeful young horses. The Sleepy Hollow offers a purse of $100,000.

The race is named for the historic village of Sleepy Hollow, New York on the banks of the Hudson River made famous by the American writer,Washington Irving in his Legend of Sleepy Hollow starring, so to speak, Ichabod Crane.