Contested over a distance of one mile and one sixteenth (eight and a half furlongs) on the dirt, it is open to fillies and mares three-years-old and up that are Registered Maryland-breds.
The race was named in honor of Shine Again, a fourth generation homebred in Allaire duPont's stable.
She retired after the 2003 season as the ninth leading Maryland-bred money earner of all time, with $1,271,840.
Shine Again was under the guidance of Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkins, she won four stakes races that season including the grade one Ballerina Handicap at Saratoga Race Course plus the grade two First Flight Handicap and placed in four other graded stakes races.
She just missed the three-peat in the Ballerina at age six, finishing second by a neck.