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The Sands Point Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually near the end of May at Belmont Park in Elmont New York. A Grade II event open to three-year-old fillies it is contested on turf over a distance of 8.5 furlongs.Inaugurated in 1995 as the Sands Point Handicap the first two editions were contested at a mile and a sixteenth before being changed to a mile and an eighth in 1997. In 2011 the race was once more set at one and one sixteenth of a mile.