Horse race
The Santa Ysabel Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race once run during January but now run in March at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California . The race is open to fillies , age three, willing to race one and one-sixteenths miles (8.5 furlongs ) on the dirt. The race is a Grade III event with a current purse of $100,000 and is part of the Road to the Kentucky Oaks .
Inaugurated in 1968, the Santa Ysabel Stakes was contested at 7 furlongs in 1970 but has otherwise been run at 1+ 1 ⁄16 miles. It was run in two divisions in 1968, 1970, 1972, and 1979.
Records
Speed record:
Most wins by a jockey :
4 – Bill Shoemaker (1974, 1978, 1985, 1988)
4 – Laffit Pincay Jr. (1970, 1973, 1981, 1991)
4 – Chris McCarron (1983, 1984, 1994, 2002)
4 – Mike E. Smith (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Most wins by a trainer :
8 – Bob Baffert (2003, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Most wins by an owner:
3 – Kaleem Shah (2011, 2014, 2020)
Winners of the Santa Ysabel Stakes since 1968
A # designates that the race was run in two divisions in 1968, 1970, 1972 and 1979.
* † In 1998 Love Lock finished first but was disqualified after testing
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