Santa Anita Oaks

Date: March 31, 12
Post:
Purse: $300,000
Grade: I
Type: -
Distance: 8.5 Furlongs
Age: 3 Year Olds
Sex: Fillies
Turf: Dirt, left-handed

Notes
The Santa Anita Oaks is a thoroughbred horseracing event that is run each year during the spring at Santa Anita Park. This is a grade I horseracing event and is run at a distance of eight and a half furlongs on the left-handed dirt track of Santa Anita Park racetrack. The race was inaugurated in 1935 and was restricted to two-year-old horses. In due course of time, the name of this stake has changed several times — initially, the race was known as the Santa Susana Stakes; in 1952 the name of the stake became the Santa Susana Handicap and from 1958 the name was reverted to the Santa Susana Stakes. But, in 1986 the designation changed to the Santa Anita Oaks. Since the inauguration, the distance of the race has been set in various degrees — in 1935, it was three furlongs while in 1937 and 1938 it was seven furlongs and the distance was seven furlongs between 1939 and 1951 and again in 1956. Between the years – 1954 and 1957 the distance was eight furlongs. But, since 1957 till date, the length of the racing is eight and half furlongs. The race offers a purse of $300,000.