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Track
  
left-handed

Location
  
Golden Gate Fields Berkeley, California

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.goldengatefields.com

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

Surface
  
Tapeta Footings synthetic dirt

The California Oaks is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in February at Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley, California. Open to three-year-old fillies, it is contested on Tapeta Footings synthetic dirt over a distance of a mile and a sixteenth (8.5 furlongs).

Contents

The event is an ungraded stakes race with a current purse of $50,000 and has been a prep race to the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, including the Kentucky Oaks, the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes and Mother Goose Stakes.

Records

Speed record:

  •  1 1⁄16 miles - 1:39.04 - Sky Mystic (2008)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Russell Baze (2009, 2011, 2012 & 2014)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 2 - Jenine Sahadi (2001 & 2002)
  • 3 - Jerry Hollendorfer (2007, 2012, 2016)

    • Special Bonus

    Paths to the $2,200,000 Black-Eyed Susan Bonus

    1. win Forward Gal Stakes + win Davona Dale Stakes + win Gulfstream Park Oaks + win Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
    2. win Las Virgenes Stakes + win Santa Anita Oaks + win Gulfstream Park Oaks + win Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
    3. win California Oaks + win Santa Anita Oaks + win Gulfstream Park Oaks + win Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
    4. win Portland Meadows Oaks + win Santa Anita Oaks + win Gulfstream Park Oaks + win Black-Eyed Susan Stakes

    Paths to the $220,000 XpressBet Bonus

    1. run in Forward Gal Stakes + win, place or show in the Gulfstream Park Oaks or win, place or show in the Santa Anita Oaks + win Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
    2. run in Davona Dale Stakes + win, place or show in the Gulfstream Park Oaks or win, place or show in the Santa Anita Oaks + win Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
    3. run in Las Virgenes Stakes + win, place or show in the Santa Anita Oaks or win, place or show in the Gulfstream Park Oaks + win Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
    4. run in California Oaks + win, place or show in the Santa Anita Oaks or win, place or show in the Gulfstream Park Oaks + win Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
    5. run in Portland Meadows Oaks + win, place or show in the Santa Anita Oaks or win, place or show in the Gulfstream Park Oaks + win Black-Eyed Susan Stakes

    References

    California Oaks Wikipedia
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