The Providence Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Narragansett Park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and restricted to three-year-olds.
With the ending of the Second World War, Narragansett Park looked to revive its stakes program, and the race drew a good field.
Red Hannigan (by the leading sire of the year Heliopolis) [4] and Noble Risk hit the wire together and provided the fans with two winners.
1955 was a year in which Hall of Fame trainer Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons (inducted 1958)[5] brought a promising three-year-old filly, named Misty Morn, to Narragansett.
The three-year-old colt Saratoga burst to a 6-length lead, before slowing down and then re-breaking, only to take a bite out of the third-place horse as Misty Morn under Ted Atkinson flew by them all.
Saratoga was disqualified to third and Misty Morn went on to be voted the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly after subsequent victories in the Molly Pitcher, Monmouth Oaks and Diana Handicap.