The Vagrancy Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares that are four years old and older run over a distance of 6+1⁄2 furlongs on the dirt track held annually in late May or early June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.
The race is named in honor of Vagrancy, the Champion three-year-old filly and champion handicap mare of 1942 owned by Belair Stud and trained by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons.
The event was inaugurated on 10 July 1948 at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York when Conniver easily won by five lengths over Harmonica in a time of 1:433⁄5 over a distance of 1+1⁄16 miles.
[1] Later that year Conniver was voted the 1948 American Champion Older Female Horse.
[5] In 2023 the conditions of the event were change from a handicap to a stakes allowance.