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Flash Stakes
Discontinued Stakes race
LocationSaratoga Race Course
Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Inaugurated1869
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance5 furlongs
SurfaceDirt
QualificationTwo-year-olds
WeightWeight-For-Age
PurseVaried over the years

The Flash Stakes was an important and prestigious race for two-year-old Thoroughbred horses and one of the longest running horse racing events in America. Run before races were graded, the Flash was won by a host of starry names. Begun before the United States Hotel Stakes (also now removed from racing's roster), it was the oldest race for juveniles of either gender in the US.

Once a historic fixture in Saratoga Springs, New York at the Saratoga Race Course, it was eliminated in 2005 by the New York Racing Association (NYRA), which feared bankruptcy.

Moved from its home in Saratoga after a long absence, the Grade III Flash had raced on at Belmont Park as a five furlong sprint on the main track for a $100,000 added purse until the NYRA's 2005 decision.

Winners since 1999

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Year
 Winner
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Time
2005 Beacon Shine Javier Castellano William I. Mott Kinsman Stable 0:58.39
2004 Primal Storm Shane Sellers Steve Asmussen Keith Asmussen 0:57.49
2003 Chapel Royal John Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Derrick Smith & Michael Tabor 0:57.02
2002 Whywhywhy Edgar Prado Patrick Biancone Fabien Ouaki 0:57:10
2001 Busters Daydream Edgar Prado Timothy Tullock Jr. S J Bee Stable 0:56.93
2000 Yonaguska Jerry Bailey D. Wayne Lukas Michael Tabor 0:57.86
1999 More Than Ready John Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher James T. Scatuorchio 0:57.10

Earlier winners

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