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Ouija Board Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1997

Distance
  
1 mile (8 furlongs)

Purse
  
200,000 USD

Website
  
www.lonestarpark.com

Surface
  
Turf

Location
  
Lone Star Park Grand Prairie, Texas, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

The Ouija Board Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually on Memorial Day at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas.

A Grade III event since 2003, it is contested on turf over a distance of one mile (8 furlongs) and is open to fillies and mares, age three and older.

Inaugurated in 1997 as the Fort Worth Handicap, it was contested at a distance of  1 1⁄8 miles until 1999 when it was renamed the Prestonwood Distaff Handicap and set at a distance of one mile. From 2000 through 2006 it was raced as the Winstar Distaff Handicap. In 2007, the race was renamed to honor superstar filly Ouija Board, the European Horse of the Year in 2004 and 2006 who won the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf in 2004 when the Breeders' Cup races were hosted by Lone Star Park.

Records

Speed record: (at current distance of 1 mile)

  • 1:32.81 - Wasted Tears (2009) (New stakes and course record)

    • Most wins:

  • Wasted Tears (2009, 2010, 2011)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • Bart B. Evans (2009, 2010, 2011)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • No jockey has won this race more than once.

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 2 - Bart B. Evans (2009, 2010)
  • 2 - Steve Asmussen (1999, 2004)
  • 2 - Donnie K. Von Hemel (2001, 2008)

    • References

    Ouija Board Handicap Wikipedia
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