La Brea Stakes

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The La Brea Stakes is a race for thoroughbred horses open to three-year-old fillies. The La Brea is at a distance of seven furlongs on the Santa Anita Park dirt track. A Grade I event, it offers a purse of $250,000. and is the last Grade I stakes race for three-year-old fillies in the year.

Named for the area in Southern California called La Brea, noted for the La Brea Tar Pits right in the middle of the city of Los Angeles. The word word "brea" is Spanish for tar.

[edit] Past winners

Winners of the La Brea in the past five years are:

  • 2005 - Pussycat Doll
  • 2004 - Alphabet Kisses
  • 2003 - Elloluv
  • 2002 - Got Koko
  • 2001 - Affluent
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