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Santa Monica Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1957

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
1,408 m

Purse
  
200,000 USD

Website
  
Santa Anita Park

Track
  
Left-handed

Distance
  
Furlong

Location
  
Santa Anita Park Arcadia, California, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

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The Santa Monica Stakes is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late January/early February at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Opern to fillies and mares age four and older, it is contested on Pro-Ride synthetic dirt over a distance of seven furlongs.

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Inaugurated in 1957, through 1959 it was open to horses three-year-olds and up of either sex.

The race was run in two divisions in 1961 and 1965.

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Records

Speed record:

  • 1:20.71 - Intangaroo (2008) (synthetics)
  • 1:20.60 - Past Forgetting (1982) (dirt)

    • Most wins:

  • Chop House (1964, 1965)
  • Past Forgetting (1982, 1983)
  • Pine Tree Lane (1987, 1988)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 6 - Bill Shoemaker (1961 (2x), 1963, 1980, 1982, 1985)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 6 - D. Wayne Lukas (1980, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1996)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 3 - C. V. Whitney (1959, 1960, 1961)
  • 3 - William Haggin Perry (1965, 1966, 1969)
  • 3 - Bernard. J. Ridder (1978, 1982, 1983)

    • References

    Santa Monica Stakes Wikipedia
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