The Flight Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race first run in 1887 at Sheepshead Bay Race Track in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. A race for horses of either sex and of all ages, it was run on dirt over a distance of seven furlongs.^[1]

An annual event, the Flight Stakes was last run in September 1909 and was won by Jack Atkin.^[2] After the Republican controlled New York Legislature under Governor Charles Evans Hughes passed the Hart–Agnew anti-betting legislation on June 11, 1908 with penalties allowing for fines and up to a year in prison.^[3] The owners of Sheepshead Bay Race Track, and other racing facilities in New York State, struggled to stay in business without betting.^[4] Racetrack operators had no choice but to drastically reduce the purse money being paid out which by 1909 saw the Flight Stakes offering a purse that was as little as one-fifth of what it had been in earlier years.^[5] Further restrictive legislation was passed by the New York Legislature in 1910 which deepened the financial crisis for track operators and led to a complete shut down of racing across the state during 1911 and 1912. When a Court ruling saw racing return in 1913 it was too late for the Sheepshead Bay horse racing facility and it never reopened.

Speed record: (at current distance of 1-1/16)

• 1:40.29 – Heatherten (1984) (new race and track record)

Most wins:

• 2 – Kingston (1890, 1892)
• 2 – Clifford (1894, 1896)
• 2 – Hamburg Belle (1904, 1905)
• 2 – Roseben (1906, 1907)

Most wins by a jockey:

• 2 – Fred Littlefield (1889, 1898)
• 2 – Fred Taral (1892, 1896)
• 2 – Henry Griffin (1894, 1895)
• 2 – Henry Spencer (1899, 1901)
• 2 – Lucien Lyne (1904, 1906)

Most wins by a trainer:

• 3 – A. Jack Joyner (1904, 1905, 1908)

Most wins by an owner:

• 2 – Michael F. Dwyer (1890, 1892)
• 2 – H. Eugene Leigh (1894, 1896)
• 2 – William C. Whitney (1902, 1903)
• 2 – Sydney Paget for J. B. A. Haggin (1904, 1905)

• † Hamburg Belle was always the property of James B. A. Haggin but as a convenience raced under the name of her manager, Sydney Paget.^[6]