The Pegasus Stakes is a Listed American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in June at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey.
An event for three-year-olds of either gender, it is contested at a mile and a sixteenth (eight and a half furlongs) on the dirt, and currently offers a purse of $150,000.
Inaugurated as a minor event on November 11, 1980 at Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the following year it became the Pegasus Handicap and would be run as such thru 2002.
[1] In 1999, Forty One Carats, ridden by jockey Jorge Chavez, won the Pegasus Handicap by a nose over Unbridled Jet.
The winner's time of 1:45 2/5 broke the Meadowlands track record for a mile and one-eighth on dirt.