Waya Stakes

The Waya Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race on the turf for fillies and mares, three years old and up. Run at Saratoga Race Course from its inception in 1992 until 2020, the race will be moved to Belmont Park in 2021.
History.
The race was inaugurated in 1992 and was run
over the distance miles on the Inner Turf track.
The event is named in honor of the French-bred multiple graded stakes-winning mare Waya 
who received the 1979 Eclipse Award as the American Champion Older Female Horse. Waya won the 1978 rendition of the Grade II Diana Handicap at Saratoga.
In 1996 and 1997 the event was moved to the main turf track and run at a longer distance of miles.
The event was idle for 5 years from 1998 to 2002 and when it resumed in 2003 it had lost its Listed classification. The renewal was also taken off the Inner Turf track and run on the sloppy dirt track. The event was not held in 2008 and run on the dirt in 2004, 2007, and 2018.
In 2015 the event was upgraded to Grade III but since the event was taken off the turf in 2018 it only was a Listed type event.
Records.
Speed record: 
Margins: 
Winners.
Legend:
 
See also.
List of American and Canadian Graded races