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Year: Winner: Second: Third: Starters: 2023 11 2022 Zandon Smile Happy Emmanuel 11 2021 Essential Quality: Highly Motivated Rombauer: 9 2020 Art Collector: Swiss Skydiver
2006 winner Lava Man - first horse ever to take the Grade I Santa Anita Handicap, the Grade I Hollywood Gold Cup, and the Grade I Pacific Classic Stakes in the same calendar year. Time record: 1:59.11 - Candy Ride (2003) Largest Margin. 19 + 1 ⁄ 4 lengths - Flightline (2022) Most wins: 2 - Tinners Way (1994, 1995) 2 - Skimming (2000, 2001)
The inaugural running of the event was on 21 March 1981 as the Budweiser Tampa Bay Derby Stakes with sponsorship for Budweiser making it the richest stakes race at the track. [2] The event was won by the long shot Paristo, who was part of the field entry of horses at the odds of 35-1 in a time of 1:45 2 ⁄ 5 . [ 2 ]
Because of the disruption in the 2020 racing schedule, major prep races for the Derby were spread out from March to August. The major preps provided the winner with 100 qualifying points, [ c ] essentially guaranteeing that horse a berth in the Derby provided the horse remained in form and the owner was willing to pay the required nomination ...
Fierceness (foaled March 28, 2021) is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse. In 2023 the two-year-old colt won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita Park en route to being named champion juvenile of 2023. In 2024 he won the Grade I Florida Derby by a record 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 lengths [3] and later that year also the Travers Stakes.
According to The Blood-Horse, NBC's broadcast "averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 14.8 million viewers—making it the most-watched sporting event and second most watched show (behind only the Academy Awards) since Super Bowl LVII in February."
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The event was inaugurated on 9 March 1935, when Head Play defeated Top Row and Ladysman on a muddy track by 2 lengths in a time of 1:51 4 ⁄ 5 before a crowd of 45,000 on the closing day of Santa Anita meeting. [1] In 1937 an even greater crowd came to witness Seabiscuit set a new track record for the 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles winning by 7 lengths. [2]