Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The Suwannee River Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run at Gulfstream Park located in Hallandale Beach Florida. Open to fillies and mares four-year-olds and up the Grade III event is set at a distance of 9 furlongs or one and one eighth mile on the turf. Named after the wild Blackwater river running from Georgia through Florida to empty into the Gulf of Mexico the Suwannee River currently offers a purse of $150000.