Tags: Horse Race, Race.
Sheepshead Bay Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of May at Belmont Park in Elmont New York. A Grade II event contested on turf at a distance of 1 3/8 miles (11 furlongs) it is open to fillies and mares three-years-old and up. Prior to 1962 it was open to horses of either sex.The first Sheepshead Bay Handicap was a race run from 1894 through 1910 at the now defunct Sheepshead Bay Race Track at Sheepshead Bay New York.