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Arrogate was a gray horse bred in Kentucky by Clearsky Farms. As a yearling, the colt was consigned to the Keeneland September sale and was bought for $560,000 by Juddmonte Farms, [7] the racing operation of Khalid ibn Abdullah. Arrogate was sent into training with Bob Baffert in California. Arrogate's front teeth were knocked back as a ...
The brilliant Californian horse Native Diver raced in the event four times winning it twice in 1963 and 1967 as an eight-year-old. In 1956, the event was renamed to the San Francisco Mile Handicap [4] The event was run on the turf in 1953 but was not regularly scheduled again until 1972.
Quick Call was a dual winner of the GII Forego Handicap, lived to the age of 35 and is buried at Clare Court in Saratoga Springs. The 2010 running was on the Inner Turf course at a distance of 1 mile. In 2019 the event was upgraded to Grade III. The race was run on the main track in 2023 and was subsequently downgraded to a Listed event.
Authentic (foaled May 5, 2017) is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2020 Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic, where he set a new Keeneland track record. He also won the Sham Stakes , San Felipe Stakes , and Haskell Invitational , and was second in the Preakness Stakes and Santa Anita Derby .
Mendelssohn started his racing career on the turf and proved his ability to ship well by winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Del Mar in California in 2017. However, O'Brien felt that the colt would be equally suited to racing on the dirt given his pedigree: Mendelssohn is a half brother to multiple Eclipse Award -winner Beholder .
The San Juan Capistrano Stakes is a Grade III American thoroughbred horse race for horses age three and older over a distance of 1 mile 1,232 yd (2.736 km) run on the turf track held at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California in June. The event currently offers a purse of $100,000.
With the creation of a new turf track at Golden Gate Fields in 1972 the event was scheduled on the grass. [5] The event was held on the turf for 6 years. During this the Argentine-bred import Yvetot won the event twice in 1973 and 1974. [4] In 1978 the event was moved back to the dirt track and scheduled in February over a mile in distance. [6]
The New York Racing Association (NYRA) decided instead to hold the 2020 Belmont Stakes on June 20, three weeks after racing in New York reopened on June 3. That scheduling made the Belmont the first leg of the 2020 Triple Crown, and meant that the Kentucky Derby was not the first leg of the Triple Crown for the first time since the 1931 edition .