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Summertime Oaks

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Inaugurated
  
1946

Surface
  
Dirt

Website
  
www.santaanita.com

Purse
  
200,000 USD

Location
  
Santa Anita Park Arcadia, California, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

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The Summertime Oaks is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in June at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. The Grade II event is open to three-year-old fillies willing to race on dirt at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles. The race was inaugurated in 1946 as the Hollywood Oaks and was originally run at Hollywood Park Racetrack.

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Following the closure of Hollywood Park in 2013, the race was transferred to Santa Anita Park. At the same time, the purse was increased from $150,000 to $200,000.

Since inception, the race has been contested at various distances:

  • 1 mile : 1946, 1948–1950
  • 7 furlongs : 1947
  •  1 1⁄16 miles : 1951-1953, 2002–present
  •  1 1⁄8 miles : 1954-2001

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    Records

    Speed record:

  • 1:41.55 - House of Fortune (2004) (at current distance of  1 1⁄16 miles)
  • 1:46.93 - Lakeway (1994) (at previous distance of  1 1⁄8 miles)

    • References

    Summertime Oaks Wikipedia
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