The With Anticipation Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds over a distance of 1+1⁄16 miles on the turf track scheduled annually in end of August or early September at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.
The race is named in honor of George W. Strawbridge Jr.'s outstanding turf runner, With Anticipation[1] who won the Grade I Sword Dancer Stakes twice at Saratoga.
The event was inaugurated on 3 September 2005 with the second favorite Stream Cat, ridden by US Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens winning by 1+1⁄2 lengths in a time of 1:451⁄5.
The winner will automatically qualify for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.
The 2007 winner Nownownow went on to win the inaugural Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Monmouth Park.