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The following races have been downgraded from Grade I status since 2010: Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap at Saratoga (2025) [10] Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park (2019) [11] Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland (2017) [12] The race was upgraded to a Grade 1 again in 2022. Beverly D. Stakes at Colonial Downs (2024) [13] Carter Handicap at Aqueduct (2024) [13]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the American Graded Stakes Committee lowered the minimum purse required for Grade 1 and Grade 2 stakes for the 2020. The minimum purse for GI has been lowered to $250,000 from $300,000, and the minimum for GII stakes is now $150,000, down from $200,000.
Each year the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association releases a list of stakes for thoroughbred horses. The Committee grades stakes and handicaps into three grades: Grade I, Grade II and Grade III. The largest races are Grade I. The committee uses as criteria for the grading:
The Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for invited fillies and mares that are four years old or older, over a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles on the turf held annually in January at Gulfstream Park, Hallandale Beach, Florida. The event currently carries a purse of $500,000.
The Mac Diarmida Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for horses four-years-old and older run over a distance of one-and-three-eighth miles (11 furlongs) on the turf, annually in late February or early March at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. The current purse is $200,000.
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[1] The event was inaugurated on 13 October 1999 and was won Dreamy Maiden who was ridden by US Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day to a neck victory after losing the lead in the straight in a time of 1:22.64. [2] From 1999 to 2001 the event was classified as Listed and in 2002 the event was upgraded to Grade III. [3] In 2004 the event was upgraded to ...
The event was classified as Grade III in 1995, and upgraded to Grade II in 2002. [ 3 ] The event attracted several champion turf runners including Kitten's Joy who won the event in 2004 and later that year became U.S. Champion Male Turf Horse and Miesque's Approval who won this event in 2006 and later that year would capture the Breeders' Cup ...