Bertram F. Bongard Stakes

The Bertram F. Bongard Stakes is a listed stakes race for Thoroughbred two-year-olds run in the fall at Belmont Park, New York.

At a distance of 7 furlongs, it will be in its 39th running in 2016. The Bongard is a major prep race for up-and-coming young horses and offers a purse of $150,000. Though not restricted to New York-bred horses, this is not an open race: it is considered an event on the New York-bred schedule.

This race was run at a mile and an eighth before 1983 and also from 1984 to 1988. It was run at seven furlongs in 1983, and from 1996 to the present. It was set at a mile and a sixteenth from 1989 to 1993 and at six furlongs in 1994 and 1995. Run for three-year-olds and older before 1984, it is now run for two-year-olds only.

Named for Bertram F. Bongard, who was a founding director of the Eastern New York Thoroughbred Breeders' Association, initially run for three-year-olds and older until 1984, but it is now strictly for two-year-olds. Before 1984, it was called the Bertram F. Bongard Handicap.

Winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, Funny Cide, won this race in 2003.

Past winners

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