Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The Longfellow Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run each year in early June at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport New Jersey. A six furlong sprint for either gender aged three and up the ungraded Longfellow offers a purse of $70000 and a trophy.The race inaugurated in 1952 began as an eight furlong event. From 1963 to 1967 it went off at eight and a half furlongs. In 1968 it stretched out to nine furlongs and remained at that distance until 1996.