Pucker up Stakes at Arlington Park 2023

Run in Chicago’s summer heat every August; the Grade III Pucker Up Stakes is a popular three-year-old fillies’ race on Arlington Park’s turf track over a trip of a mile and one furlong.

The Pucker Up is worth $100,000 in total and is named after the brilliant 1950’s filly Pucker Up, who won around here and nearby Washington Park, now defunct.

The Pucker Up Stakes has been run on the dirt track (now Polytrack) at Arlington, over a mile and half-a-furlong and one mile, one-and-a-half furlongs since it was inaugurated in 1961, but it has a settled place on the schedule now with the current race conditions.

Previous winners this century include Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Dreaming Of Anna, Miz Money, Secret Message, and Café Americano, who won in a very quick time in 2019.