Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The Spindrift Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually between 1886 and 1909 at Sheepshead Bay Race Track at Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn New York. A race for three-year-olds it was contested on dirt over a distance of 1¼ miles (10 furlongs) from 1886–1892 and at 1⅛ miles (9 furlongs) from 1893 through 1909.The race ended with the closure of the Coney Island Jockey Club’s racetrack brought on by the State legislature’s enactment of the Hart-Agnew Law.