The Matron Stakes is an American Grade III flat

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race for

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fillies and

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s, aged three years and upward. Raced over a distance of 9 furlongs on the dirt at

Arlington Park Arlington International Racecourse (formerly Arlington Park, the name was Arlington Park Jockey Club from as soon as 1948 up to 1955) was a horse race track in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois. Horse racing in the Chicago re ...

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every spring. It currently offers a purse of $100,000. The event was moved to Churchill Downs in 2017. Inaugurated in 1930, Hall of Fame member,

Bewitch Bewitch (1945–1959) was a Thoroughbred race horse born in 1945 at Calumet Farm, Kentucky, United States in the same crop in which the stallion Bull Lea produced Citation and Coaltown. Each of them was eventually inaugurated into the Thoroughb ...

, ran second in 1949.

Real Delight Real Delight (1949–1969), was an American Thoroughbred race horse. Background She was bred by the famous Calumet Farm of Lexington, Kentucky. Her sire was one of America's foundation stallions, the influential Bull Lea (sire of seven Hall of ...

won it in 1953.American Racing Manual 2010

Recent winners

* 1947 – But Why Not * 1949 – Lithe * 1957 –

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* 2005 – Indy Groove ( Charles Woods) * 2006 – Sea Siren * 2007 – Solo Survivor * 2008 – Indescribable (

Jeremy Rose Jeremy Rose (born April 1, 1979 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse jockey. He began his career as a professional rider at Delaware Park in Wilmington, Delaware and in 2001 was his breakout year and he was voted the ...

) * 2009 – Euphony (

Cliff Berry Monte Clifton Berry (born August 23, 1962, in Joplin, Missouri) is an American retired jockey who successfully competed in American Quarter Horse racing and in Thoroughbred racing. On Dec. 10, 2010, he became one of only four jockeys in U.S. ra ...

) * 2010 – Tizaqueena ( E. T. Baird) * 2011 – Pachattack ( Florent Geroux) * 2012 – Upperline ( James Graham) * 2013 – Imposing Grace ( João Moreira) * 2014 – La Tia ( E. T. Baird) * 2015 – ''Race not held'' * 2016 – Flipcup ( Christopher A. Emigh) * 2017 – Walkabout * 2018 – Princess La Quinta * 2019 – Coachwhip

References

{{Reflist Graded stakes races in the United States 1930 establishments in Illinois Mile category horse races for fillies and mares Recurring sporting events established in 1930 Arlington Park Horse races in Illinois