High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Test Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race open to three-year-old fillies and run each summer at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. It is contested at a distance of seven furlongs on the dirt and is an influential race in shaping the Breeders` Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. A Grade I event, it carries a purse of $250,000.