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Wickerr Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1990

Surface
  
Turf

Distance
  
1,609 m

Website
  
www.dmtc.com

Track
  
Left-handed

Location
  
Del Mar Racetrack Del Mar, California, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

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The Wickerr Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid-July at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. A non-graded stakes open to horses age three and older, it is contested on turf over a distance of one mile (8 furlongs).

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This race currently offers a purse of $75,000 added.

The race is named in honour of Wickerr [1], a horse who won a number of important races at Del Mar Racetrack for his prominent Rancho Santa Fe, California owner, Edmund A. Gann.

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Records

Speed record:

  • In 2002, Special Ring set a new stakes and Del Mar course record time for one mile of 1:32.72 that was broken the following year when Touch of the Blues set a new stakes and course record of 1:32.22

    • Winners since 1990

    * † In 2000, American Spirit won but was disqualified to second for bumping Riviera in the stretch.

    References

    Wickerr Stakes Wikipedia
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