Arlington Stakes

The Arlington Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged four years old over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the turf held annually in late May or early June at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The event currently carries a purse of $200,000.

It currently offers a purse of $200,000 and served as a final local prep race for the Arlington Million.

The race was hosted by the now defunct Washington Park Race Track in 1943, 1944 and 1945, and by the Hawthorne Race Course in 1985.

The Arlington Handicap was run on dirt in 1929–1940, 1942–1953, 1963, 1965–1972, and in 1975. There was no race held in 1940, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1988, 1998, or 1999.

In 2022, the event was moved to Churchill Downs after the closure of Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Illinois and run over the shorter distance of 1+1⁄16 miles.^[1]

Distances:

• 7⁄8 mile – 1968
• 1 mile – 1963, 1966–1967
• 1+1⁄16 miles – 2022
• 1+1⁄8 miles – 1929, 1952, 1965
• 1+1⁄4 miles – 1930–1939, 1942–1951, 1984 to 2014
• 1+3⁄16 miles – 1941, 1953–1962, 1964, 1973–1976, 2015–2021
• 1+1⁄2 miles – 1972, 1977–1983

Speed record:

1:42.42 - Set Piece (2023) (at 1 1/16 miles on Churchill Downs turf)

• 2:00.62 – Sky Classic (1992) (at 1+1⁄4 miles on Arlington Park turf)
• In 1985, Pass the Line ran 1+1⁄4 miles on turf in 2:00 2/5 at Hawthorne Race Course.
• 1:53.16- Bandua (2019) (at 1+3⁄16 mile distance)

Most wins:

• 3 – Rahystrada (2010, 2012, 2013)

Most wins by an owner:

• 4 – Calumet Farm (1936, 1947, 1949, 1950)

Most wins by a jockey:

• 4 – Bill Shoemaker (1958, 1959, 1965, 1983)

Most wins by a trainer:

• 4 – Robert J. Frankel (1991, 1994, 1996, 2000)

• The Arlington Handicap at Pedigree Query