El Cajon Stakes
El Cajon Stakes | |
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Ungraded stakes race | |
Location |
Del Mar Racetrack Del Mar, California, United States |
Inaugurated | 1973 |
Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
Race information | |
Distance | 1 mile (8 furlongs) |
Track | Polytrack synthetic dirt, left-handed |
Qualification | Three-years-old |
Weight | Assigned |
Purse | $100,000 |
The El Cajon Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the first week of September at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. Open to three-year-old horses, the non-graded stakes is contested at a distance of one mile (8 furlongs) on Polytrack synthetic dirt and as of 2009 offers a purse of $100,000.
Inaugurated in 1973, it was run as a restricted overnight stakes until 2004. The distance was set at one and one eight miles in 1973 and 1974, then reduced to a mile and a sixteenth from 1975 through 1996 after which it was set at its current distance of one mile.
There was no race run in 1994 and 2001.
Past winners
- 2014 - Red Outlaw
- 2013 - Holy Lute
- 2012 - Fed Biz
- 2011 - Celestic Night
- 2010 - Haimish Way
- 2009 - Grazen
- 2008 - Slews Tiznow
- 2007 - Rush with Thunder
- 2006 - Cindago
- 2005 - Follow the Rainbow
- 2004 - Perfect Moon
- 2003 - Excess Summer
- 2002 - Joey Franco
- 2001 - RACE NOT RUN
- 2000 - Spicy Stuff
- 1999 - National Saint
- 1998 - Opine
- 1997 - Best Star
- 1996 - Ready to Order
- 1995 - Turbulent Dancer
- 1994 - RACE NOT RUN
- 1993 - Pleasant Tango
- 1992 - Slerp
- 1991 - Letthebighossroll (California Champion sprinter)
- 1990 - Asia
- 1989 - Bruho
- 1988 - Old Exclusive
- 1987 - Sebrof
- 1986 - Tasso (1985 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt)
- 1985 - Nostalgias Star
- 1984 - Bunker
- 1983 - Mamaison
- 1982 - Craelius
- 1981 - Island Whirl
- 1980 - Mighty Return
- 1979 - Shamgo
- 1978 - Go West Young Man (Multiple Grade I winner)
- 1977 - Kulak
- 1976 - Wood Green
- 1975 - Crumbs
- 1974 - Within Hail
- 1973 - Quick Bluff