Belmont Park(1905-1910, 1914)Elmont, New York The Eclipse Stakes was an American Thorougbred race for two-year-old horses of either sex.
Inaugurated August 24, 1889 at New York's Morris Park Racecourse with a then substantial purse of $28,000, from inception through 1894 the race was known as the Great Eclipse Stakes.
The end of the Eclipse Stakes came as a result of the 1908 passage of the Hart–Agnew anti-betting legislation by the New York Legislature under Republican Governor Charles Evans Hughes.
[7] Blue Girl, winner of the May 24, 1901 Eclipse Stakes for owner/trainer John Madden, would finish the year as a Co-Champion Two-Year-Old Filly with Endurance by Right.
[8] [7] The final running of the Eclipse Stakes in 1907 was won by the great Hall of Fame inductee Colin.