The Alabama Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race open to three-year-old fillies.
Held in mid August, it currently offers a purse of $600,000.
The inaugural running took place on July 19, 1872 and was won by a chestnut filly named Woodbine owned by prominent New York financier August Belmont Sr.[2] The race was not run from 1893 to 1896 and 1898 to 1900.
The 1908 passage of the Hart–Agnew anti-betting legislation by the New York Legislature under Republican Governor Charles Evans Hughes led to a state-wide shutdown of racing in 1911 and 1912.
[3][4] During World War II, from 1943 through 1945 the Alabama Stakes was run at Belmont Park.