The Smarty Jones Stakes is a Listed American Thoroughbred horse race for three years olds, over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt track held annually in early September at Parx Casino and Racing racetrack in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
The race was inaugurated in 2010[1] with an attractive purse offered of $300,000[1] as a preparatory race for the Grade I Pennsylvania Derby where the winner was given automatic entry.
The event is named in honor of the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner, and hometown Pennsylvania hero Smarty Jones.
[3] In 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Parx Racing did not schedule the event.
[4] In 2024 the event was downgraded by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to Listed status.