Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The Prioress Stakes is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the first week of July at Belmont Park in Elmont New York.Inaugurated in 1948 at Jamaica Racetrack it was raced there through 1959 after which it was hosted by Aqueduct Racetrack through 1986. The Prioress was named for the filly Prioress out of the great mare Reel herself by Glencoe.