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The Garden City Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid September at Belmont Park in Elmont New York. A Grade 1 event open to three-year-old fillies it is raced on turf over a distance of a mile and an eighth (9 furlongs).First run in 1978 as the Garden City Handicap for older mares the following year it was limited to three-year-old fillies and named the Rare Perfume Handicap in honor of George Widener’s racing mare Rare Perfume.