The Junior Champion Stakes was a Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds of either sex run from 1884 through 1893 at the Monmouth Park Racetrack in Eatontown, New Jersey.
[1] The filly Wanda beat eleven other runners to win the 1884 inaugural running of the Junior Champion Stakes for prominent owner Pierre Lorillard.
[6] Strathmeath, the 1890 winner owned and trained by Green B. Morris, won a number of important stakes in his career including the high profile American Derby in 1891.
In May 1894, the Township Committee at Eatontown, New Jersey ordered the seizure and sale of the Monmouth Park Association's grandstand and other property for the payment of back taxes and on May 7 was sold at a public auction.
In May 1894, the Township Committee at Eatontown, New Jersey ordered the seizure and sale of the Monmouth Park Association's grandstand and other property for the payment of back taxes and on May 7 was sold at a public auction.