The Count Fleet Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run at Aqueduct Racetrack, located in Jamaica, New York, at the beginning of January each year.
[1] It is the first stakes race of the year run in New York City for three-year-olds.
Named after Count Fleet, the 1943 Triple Crown winner, the race is open to three-year-olds willing to race one mile and seventy yards on the inner dirt track.
Inaugurated in 1975 as the Count Fleet Handicap at Belmont Park, it was run that year at a distance of one mile.
[2] In 1976 it was raced at seven furlongs then from 1977 through 1983 at a mile and a sixteenth.