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Hillsborough Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1999

Surface
  
Turf

Website
  
www.tampabaydowns.com

Location
  
Tampa Bay Downs Oldsmar, Florida

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (9 furlongs)

The Hillsborough Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid-March at Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar, Florida.

A Grade III event since 2004, it is now a Grade II event. The race is open to fillies and mares, four years of age and older. Raced on turf, since 2004 it has been contested at a distance of  1 1⁄8 miles, (9 furlongs) prior to which it was run at  1 1⁄16 miles.

The winner of the 2012 Hillsborough Stakes, Zagora, won the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf and was voted an Eclipse Award in her category.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:41.14 - Strait From Texas (2003) (at previous distance of  1 1⁄16 miles)
  • 1:46.26 - Tepin (2016) (at current distance of  1 1⁄8 miles)

    • Most wins:

  • No horse has won this race more than once.

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • No owner has won this race more than once.

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 - John Velazquez (2006, 2007, 2015)
  • 2 - Pat Day (1999, 2000)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 4 - Todd A. Pletcher (2006, 2007, 2010, 2013)

    • References

    Hillsborough Stakes Wikipedia
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