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Sorority Stakes

horse race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ7563649 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Sorority Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the first week of September at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Open to two-year-old fillies, it is contested on dirt over a distance of six furlongs.

The Sorority Stakes lost its graded status in 2004.

Records

Speed record:

1:09.00 Ruffian (1974)

Most wins by a jockey:

3 – Braulio Baeza (1967, 1968, 1973)

3 – Joe Bravo(1999, 2009, 2020)

Most wins by a trainer:

3 – Ben W. Perkins Jr.

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“Sorority Stakes” enters the record as horse race. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sorority, Stakes and horse can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 1974, 1967, 1968—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sorority, Stakes and horse.
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“Sorority Stakes” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sorority, Stakes and horse provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7563649. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004, 1974, 1967 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sorority Stakes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.