The Modesty Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
A Grade III race contested over a distance of 1+1⁄8 miles on turf, it is open to fillies and mares aged four and older.
Run in May during on Kentucky Oaks day, the event currently offers a purse of $250,000.
The race was named in honor of Modesty, a filly owned by Edward Corrigan who beat her male counterparts to win the 1884 inaugural running of the American Derby at Washington Park Race Track under African-American U.S.
Racing Hall of Fame jockey, Isaac Burns Murphy.