The Lake Placid Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. It is run at a distance of one and one-eighths miles on the turf and is open to three-year-old fillies and carries a purse of $150,000. The race is a Grade II event.

Inaugurated as the Nijana Handicap in 1984, it was renamed the Lake Placid Stakes in 1998.

The Lake Placid Stakes has been contested at different distances:

• 1¹/16 miles : 1985-1989

• 1⅛ miles : 1984, 1990, 1996-present

In 1990, it was run on dirt.

The Lake Placid was run in two divisions in 1988, 1991, and from 1992 through 1995.

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 1⅛ miles)

• 1:46.33 - Tenski (1998)

Most wins by an owner:

• 2 - Joan & John Phillips (1996, 2002)

Most wins by a jockey:

• 6 - Jerry D. Bailey (1987, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004)

Most wins by a trainer:

• 2 - John M. Veitch (1987, 1988)

• 2 - D. Wayne Lukas (1990, 1993)

• 2 - William I. Mott (1995, 2007)

• 2 - James J. Toner (1996, 2002)

• 2 - Christophe Clement (2004, 2005)

Winners