Sugar Bowl Stakes

The Sugar Bowl Stakes is an American race for Thoroughbred horses run near Christmas at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. Set at a distance of six furlongs on the dirt for two-year-olds, the Sugar Bowl offers a purse of $75,000.

Although it is an ungraded event, it is still considered a prep to the Kentucky Derby, albeit it a minor one.

Past winners

2009 - Cool Bullet
2008 - Ask Joe (Miguel Mena)
2007 - Sok Sok (Shaun Bridgmohan)
2006 - Teuflesberg (Robby Albarado) (run on Christmas Eve)
2005 - Catonight
2004 - Storm Surge
2003 - Wildcat Shoes
2002 - Saintly Look
2001 - Mapp Hill
2000 - Wild Hits
1999 - Littlexpectations
1998 - Show Me The Stage (Filly)
1996 - Gold Case
1987 - Dee Dee Lance
1980 - Top Avenger (multiple stages winner, holds fastest fractions ever run in the Kentucky Derby, 1981.)
1978 - Clever Trick
1977 - Cabrini Green (defeated John Henry three times.)
1959 - Road House
1954 - Speed Rouser