Sugar Bowl Stakes Explained

Class:Overnight stakes
Horse Race:Sugar Bowl Stakes
Location:Fair Grounds Race Course
New Orleans, Louisiana
Inaugurated:1950
Race Type:Thoroughbred – flat racing
Distance:6 furlongs
Surface:Dirt
Track:Left-handed
Qualification:Two years old
Purse:$50,000

The Sugar Bowl Stakes is an American race for Thoroughbred horses run near Christmas at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. Set at a distance of six furlongs on the dirt for two-year-olds, the Sugar Bowl currently offers a purse of $100,000.

Although it is an ungraded event, it is still considered a prep to the Kentucky Derby, albeit a minor one.

Past winners

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