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Yeats Stakes

flat horse race in Ireland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ48797734 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Yeats Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Ireland open to thoroughbreds aged three years only. It is run at Navan over a distance of 1 mile and 5 furlongs (2,616 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in May.

The race was run for the first time in 2017.

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The public source identifies “Yeats Stakes” as flat horse race in Ireland. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Yeats, Stakes and flat.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Yeats, Stakes and flat providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Yeats 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.