The Matchmaker Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares age three and older run over a distance of 1+1⁄8 miles on the turf held annually in July at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey.
The inaugural running of the event was on 30 September 1967 at Atlantic City Race Course over a distance of 1+3⁄16 miles on the dirt.
The first running attracted 14 entrants and the three sires that were available for the placegetters were the 1958 US Horse of the Year Round Table, 1960 US Champion Two-Year-Old Colt Hail To Reason and the 1962 Belmont Stakes winner Jaipur.
[1] The winner of the inaugural race was the Maryland bred mare Politely who set a new track record of 1:551⁄5.
[2] In the early years of the event in the attracted the finest mares as owners vied for the possibility of breeding to former champions that were offered as part of prizemoney.