Santa Monica Stakes
The Santa Monica Stakes is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late January/early February at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Open to fillies and mares age four and older, it is run on the dirt over a distance of seven furlongs. Until 2010, the race name was the Santa Monica Handicap.
Inaugurated in 1957, through 1959 it was open to horses three-year-olds and up of either sex.
The race was run in two divisions in 1961 and 1965.
It was rated as GII in 1973-1983, GIII in 1984-1987, GII in 1988 and 1989, GI in 1990-2012, and GII in 2013 and later.Records
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