Amsterdam Stakes

The Amsterdam Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of July at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Open to three-year-old horses, it is a sprint race competed over a distance of  6 1⁄2 furlongs. A Grade II event, it currently offers a purse of $200,000. Inaugurated in 1993 as the Screen King Stakes and run at seven furlongs, it was raced at a distance of six furlongs between 1994 and 2005. In 1998 the race was renamed for Amsterdam, New York, a neighbor town of Saratoga Springs in Upstate New York. The race was run in two divisions in 1994.

Amsterdam Stakes

The Amsterdam Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of July at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Open to three-year-old horses, it is a sprint race competed over a distance of  6 1⁄2 furlongs. A Grade II event, it currently offers a purse of $200,000. Inaugurated in 1993 as the Screen King Stakes and run at seven furlongs, it was raced at a distance of six furlongs between 1994 and 2005. In 1998 the race was renamed for Amsterdam, New York, a neighbor town of Saratoga Springs in Upstate New York. The race was run in two divisions in 1994.