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| Oak Tree @ Santa Anita 285 W Huntington Drive Arcadia, California, 91007 USA (626)-574-7223 (626)-446-8501 |
| Racing Dates: 2011-09-28 until 2011-11-06 Number of Racing Days: |
Date: March 12, 11
Post:
Purse: $200,000
Grade: II
Type: Thoroughbred
Distance: 8.5 Furlongs
Age: 3 Year Olds
Sex: Both
Turf: Dirt
Notes
The San Felipe Stakes is normally held in mid-March at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. This Grade II race is an American thoroughbred horseracing event and is run each year at a distance of eight and a half furlongs on the left-handed dirt track of Santa Anita Park racetrack. The stakes currently carries $200,000 and is officially listed as a preparation race for the first leg of the American Triple Crown – Kentucky Derby. The race was inaugurated as the San Felipe Handicap in 1935 but due to the World War II there was no race between 1942 and 1945. Since the inauguration of this race, the distance for the race has changed for a couple of times – between the years 1938-1940 and 1945-1946 the distance was six furlongs; in 1937, 1941 and between 1947 and 1951 that race started running at a distance of seven furlongs. Since 1952, the race has been running at a distance of one and one sixteenth miles. In 1968 and 1970, the San Felipe Stakes was run in two divisions. In 2009, Pioneer of the Nile clinched the title.
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