- Osunitas Stakes
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Restricted non-graded stakes race
Osunitas StakesLocation Del Mar Racetrack
Del Mar, California,
United StatesInaugurated 1945 Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing Website www.dmtc.com Race information Distance 1 1/16 miles (8.5 furlongs) Track Grass, left-handed Qualification Fillies & Mares, 3-years-old & up Weight 3-year-olds: 118 lbs.
Older horses: 123 lbs. plus allowancesPurse $85,000 added Bonuses $22,500 to winners bred in California The Osunitas Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during trhe third week of July at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. Open to fillies and mares age three and older, it is raced on turf over a distance of a mile and one sixteenth. [1]
Historical notes
Hall of Fame inductee Bill Shoemaker, whose four wins in the Osunitas Handicap is the most for any jockey, earned his first ever win as a trainer when Baldomero won this event for him in 1990. [2]
Records
Speed record: (at current 1 1/16 miles)
- 1:40.30 - Meydan Princess (2009)
Most wins:
- No horse has ever won this race more than once.
Most wins by a jockey:
- 4 - Bill Shoemaker (1970, 1974, 1978, 1984)
Most wins by a trainer:
- 6 - Ron McAnally (1965, 1981, 1986, 1993, 2004, 2008)
References
Categories:- Horse race stubs
- Mile category horse races for fillies and mares
- Restricted stakes races in the United States
- Turf races in the United States
- Recurring events established in 1945
- Del Mar Racetrack
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