The Just A Game Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in early June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Open to fillies and mares age three and up, it is contested on turf over a distance of one mile (8 furlongs). A Grade I event since 2008, it offers a purse of $400,000.
The race is named in honor of Peter Brant's filly, Just A Game, who was voted 1980 American Champion Female Turf Horse honors.
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