Ballyogan Stakes

The Ballyogan Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Ireland open to thoroughbred fillies and mares aged three years or older. It is run at Leopardstown over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June.

The event was formerly contested over 5 furlongs and open to horses of either gender. It was held at Cork from 2002 to 2004, and on the last occasion it became a 6-furlong race for fillies and mares. It returned to Leopardstown in 2005.

Records

Most successful horse:

Leading jockey since 1975 (4 wins):

Leading trainer since 1975 (7 wins):

Winners since 1975

^a Prince Echo and Jasmine Star finished first and second in 1981, but the race was awarded to the third-placed horse.

Ballyogan

Ballyogan (Irish: Baile Uí Ógáin, meaning "Hogan's town") is a residential area in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. It is located approximately 12 km south of Dublin city centre. It is bounded to the west and north by Stepaside and Sandyford; across the M50 motorway to the east is Leopardstown and to the south, Carrickmines. It has a population of about 2,000 people.

Ballyogan is centered on the Ballyogan Road. The residential and shopping areas are located between the road and the M50 motorway which runs more or less parallel to and east of the Ballyogan road. West of the road is a former Local Authority landfill and a recycling centre. Also running west of the road are remnants of the Pale ditch, a defensive structure which marks a former border of The Pale. Just west of here are the Dublin Mountains which were outside English control. Another reminder of the area's past as frontier country is found at adjoining Carrickmines where the remains of Carrickmines Castle became a centre of a controversy when the M50 was being built.