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Rebel Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1961

Surface
  
Dirt

Website
  
www.oaklawn.com

Purse
  
900,000 USD (2016)

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

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

The Rebel Stakes is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race held annually in March at Oaklawn Park racetrack in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Open to three-year-old horses, it is raced on dirt over a distance of  1 1⁄16 miles. It currently offers a purse of $900,000 and is the second leg of the Oaklawn three-year-old stakes program, the first being the Southwest Stakes and the third the Arkansas Derby.

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Inaugurated as a Handicap race, the Rebel Stakes is now one of the prep races en route to the annual U.S. Triple Crown series.

On November 28, 2007, this Grade III stakes race was upgraded to a Grade II by the American Graded Stakes Committee.

Rebel stakes 2017


Records

Time record:

  • 1:40.80 - Betemight (1967) (as a Handicap race)
  • 1:41.00 - Vanlandingham (1984) (as a Stakes race)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 5 - Loblolly Stable (1980, 1984, 1987, 1992, 1993)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Mike E. Smith (1986, 1993, 1999, 2014)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 6 - Bob Baffert (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016)

    • References

    Rebel Stakes Wikipedia
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