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Texas Mile Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1997

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
1,609 m

Website
  
www.lonestarpark.com

Track
  
Left-handed

Purse
  
200,000 USD (2014)

Location
  
Lone Star Park Grand Prairie, Texas, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

The Texas Mile Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late April at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas. A Grade III event open to horses age three and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of one mile (8 furlongs).

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History

Inaugurated in 1997, in 1999 it became the first graded Thoroughbred stakes race in Texas.

The event

In 2001, Dixie Dot Com became the only horse to win in the same year the Texas Mile and the Lone Star Park Handicap, known as "The Texas Two Step."

Among notable horses who ran in the Texas Mile but did not win were Skip Away, who finished third in 1997, and Real Quiet who finished second in 1999.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:34.44 - Isitingood (1997) (stakes and track record)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Littlebitlively (1998, 1999)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 - David Flores (1997, 2001, 2008)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 2 - Bob Baffert (1997, 2006)
  • 2 - Bobby C. Barnett (1998, 1999)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Mike Pegram (1997, 2006)
  • 2 - John A. Franks (1998, 1999)

    • References

    Texas Mile Stakes Wikipedia
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