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Fantasy Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1973

Surface
  
Dirt

Website
  
www.oaklawn.com

Location
  
Oaklawn Park Race Track Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

The Fantasy Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in April at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The Fantasy is open to three-year-old fillies competing at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. The race is a Grade II event with a current purse of $400,000 and has been a prep race to the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, including the Kentucky Oaks, Black-Eyed Susan Stakes and Mother Goose Stakes.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:41.20 - My Darling One (1984)
  • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Chris McCarron (1984, 1987, 1989, 1992)
  • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - Charles Whittingham (1974, 1984, 1988)
  • Most wins by an owner:

  • 3 - Fox Hill Farms (2005, 2008, 2011)
  • References

    Fantasy Stakes Wikipedia