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Stage Door Betty Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
2001

Purse
  
100,000 USD

Surface
  
Dirt

Location
  
Calder Race Course Miami Gardens, Florida, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.calderracecourse.com

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

The Stage Door Betty Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually since 2001 at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, Florida. Open to Fillies and Mares, age three and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of  1 1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs).

Run near the end of December, the race has had Grade III status since 2006. It is named for the filly Stage Door Betty to honor her owner, longtime South Florida horsewoman Betty Sessa. Sessa died in January 2001.

Along with two other stakes races, Calder Race Course canceled the 2008 running of the Stage Door Betty Handicap due to what track officials described as "continuing overpayment of purses during the current meet."

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:44.08 - Stormy Frolic (2002)

    • Most wins:

  • No horse has won this race more than once.

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 - Eibar Coa (2001, 2003, 2006)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • No trainer has won this race more than once.

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • No owner has won this race more than once.

    • References

    Stage Door Betty Handicap Wikipedia
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