The King's Bishop Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. The race is open to three-year-olds willing to sprint seven furlongs on dirt. The race is a Grade I event and carries a purse of $250,000. It is the biggest of the year for sprinting three-year-olds, save for the Breeders' Cup Sprint for which it is a major prep.
The race is named for King's Bishop, a horse originally owned by Craig F. Cullinan, Jr., founding president of the Houston Astros Major League Baseball club.
The race was not run in 1986.
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Fought was this noble fray,
Which fame did not delay
To England to carry.
On when shall Englishmen
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Such a King Harry?”
—Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)