The Native Dancer Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland. Raced in early January, it is open to horses age three and older and is contested on dirt over a distance of 1 mile (8 furlongs). From 1966 to 2002 the race was known as the Native Dancer Handicap. It has been run at four different distances; for the first eleven years (from 1966 to 1976) the race was run at 6 furlongs, from 1977 to 1984 and in 2005 it was raced at a distance of 1³/16 miles; in 1985 and from 2006 through 2010 the race was contested at its present distance of 1 mile and from 1986 through 2003 it was run at a distance of 1³/8 miles.