Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Sheepshead Bay Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of May at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. A Grade II event contested on turf at a distance of 1 3/8 miles (11 furlongs), it is open to fillies and mares, three-years-old and up. Prior to 1962, it was open to horses of either sex.The first Sheepshead Bay Handicap was a race run from 1894 through 1910 at the now defunct Sheepshead Bay Race Track at Sheepshead Bay, New York. It was revived at the Jamaica Racetrack in 1959 but following the closure of that facility, the race was shifted to Aqueduct Racetrack which hosted it from 1960 through 1974 and again in 1976.Since inception, the revised edition of the Sheepshead Bay race has been contested at various distances and on both dirt and turf surfaces: 1 mile : 1962 on dirt 11/16 miles : 1959 on dirt 11/16 miles : 1963-1964 on turf 1 mile, 1 furlong : 1960, 1961, 1976 on dirt 1³/16 miles : 1965-1973 on turf 1³/16 miles : 1974 on dirt 1¼ miles : 1975, 1977-1979 on turf 1⅜ miles : 1980-1989, 1991 to 2011 1⅜ miles : 1990 on dirt 1 1/8 miles: 2012 on turfThe Sheepshead Bay was run in two divisions in 1968, 1970, 1972, 1976 and 1982.. }
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- Sheepshead_Bay_Stakes abstract "Sheepshead Bay Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of May at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. A Grade II event contested on turf at a distance of 1 3/8 miles (11 furlongs), it is open to fillies and mares, three-years-old and up. Prior to 1962, it was open to horses of either sex.The first Sheepshead Bay Handicap was a race run from 1894 through 1910 at the now defunct Sheepshead Bay Race Track at Sheepshead Bay, New York. It was revived at the Jamaica Racetrack in 1959 but following the closure of that facility, the race was shifted to Aqueduct Racetrack which hosted it from 1960 through 1974 and again in 1976.Since inception, the revised edition of the Sheepshead Bay race has been contested at various distances and on both dirt and turf surfaces: 1 mile : 1962 on dirt 11/16 miles : 1959 on dirt 11/16 miles : 1963-1964 on turf 1 mile, 1 furlong : 1960, 1961, 1976 on dirt 1³/16 miles : 1965-1973 on turf 1³/16 miles : 1974 on dirt 1¼ miles : 1975, 1977-1979 on turf 1⅜ miles : 1980-1989, 1991 to 2011 1⅜ miles : 1990 on dirt 1 1/8 miles: 2012 on turfThe Sheepshead Bay was run in two divisions in 1968, 1970, 1972, 1976 and 1982.".