Inaugurated 1969 Surface Turf | Distance 1 mile (8 furlongs) | |
Location Santa Anita Park
Arcadia, California, United States
formerly run at the now closed Hollywood Park Racetrack
Inglewood, California Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing Website www.santaanita.com
www.oaktreeracing.com | ||
The Goldikova is an American Thoroughbred horse race run in early November at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. (It began as the Las Palmas Handicap run during the Oak Tree Racing Association meet.) The race is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one mile on the turf. A Grade II event, it currently offers a purse of $200,000.
The Las Palmas Handicap was named for the California-bred racing mare, Las Palmas. Foaled in 1929, she won the first ever race at modern Santa Anita Park on December 25, 1934. Its name was changed with the closing of the Hollywood racetrack and moving the race to Santa Anita in 2012. It is now named in honor of Goldikova, the champion European racemare who won the Breeders' Cup Mile three times in succession - 2008, 2009 and 2010.
The race was also hosted by Santa Anita Park from inception in 1969 through 2009.
Past winners
Recent winners are: