Osunitas Stakes

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Osunitas Stakes
Restricted non-graded stakes race
Location Del Mar Racetrack
Del Mar, California,
United States
Inaugurated 1945
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.dmtc.com
Race information
Distance​1 1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
Surface Turf
Track Left-handed
Qualification Fillies & Mares, 3-years-old & up
Weight 3-year-olds: 118 lbs.
Older horses: 123 lbs. plus allowances
Purse $85,000 added
Bonuses $22,500 to winners bred in California

The Osunitas Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the 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]

Del Mar, California City in California, United States

Del Mar is a beach city in San Diego County, California. Del Mar is Spanish for "of the sea" or "by the sea," which reflects its location on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The Del Mar Horse Races are hosted on the Del Mar racetrack every summer. In 1885, Colonel Jacob Taylor purchased 338 acres (1.37 km2) from Enoch Talbert, with visions of building a seaside resort for the rich and famous. The United States Navy operated a Naval Auxiliary Air Facility for blimps at Del Mar during World War II. The population was estimated at 4,311 in 2014, up from 4,161 at the 2010 census.

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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]

Bill Shoemaker American jockey

William Lee "Bill" Shoemaker was an American jockey. For 29 years he held the world record for total professional jockey victories.

Records

Speed record: (at current ​1 1⁄16 miles)

Most wins:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Ronald L. McAnally is an American Hall of Fame trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. Called "one of the most honored and respected of North American trainers" by Thoroughbred Times Co., Inc, as a child, he and his four siblings were placed in an orphanage following the death of their mother. As an adult, he regularly donates funds to the Covington Protestant Children's Home where he was raised.

Winners

Gold Splash was an American-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. She was one of the best two-year-old fillies of her generation in France when she won the Prix Marcel Boussac on her third appearance. In the following season she finished third in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches before winning the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot. She raced in the United States as a four-year-old, winning the Osunitas Handicap before being retired. Gold Splash was not a success as a broodmare, producing only two minor winners.

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References

  1. ↑ Del Mar Racetrack stakes race schedule Archived 2011-09-02 at the Wayback Machine .
  2. ↑ Lexington Herald-Leader - September 9, 1990
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