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The Golden Gate Handicap is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for horses age three and older over a distance of one and one sixteenth miles with handicap conditions on the Tapeta, a synthetic racing surface held annually in November at Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley, California. The event offers a purse of US$100,000.
Conditions Conditions are requirements for horses to be entered into a specific race, such as age, sex, number of wins, and amount of money won. Racetracks publish a Conditions Book listing the upcoming stakes that set the eligibility requirements and any restrictions for each race. [21] Connections The owner and trainer of a horse.
In 1938 the conditions of the event were changed to a handicap for horses three-years-old and older and the distance set at 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles. [3] In 1940 the distance was extended to 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles for two runnings in which Joe DeSoto's Steel Heels won both events including setting a new track record in 1941. [ 4 ]
The Kentucky Derby is only open to three-year-old Thoroughbreds, [9] thus all entrants in the 2018 race were part of the 2015 North American live foal crop of roughly 22,000. [10] The field was limited to twenty horses who qualified based on points earned in the 2018 Road to the Kentucky Derby , a series of designated races that was first ...
In 1984, the conditions of the event were changed from handicap to stakes allowance and the event was renamed the Rebel Stakes. [2] That same year the distance was increased to one and one-sixteenth miles. [3] In 1990, the event was upgraded to Grade III. It was downgraded to Listed for the 2003 and 2004 runnings.
The 2016 Kentucky Derby was the 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby.The race was run at 6:51 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on May 7, 2016, at Churchill Downs. [1] The race was broadcast in the United States on the NBC television network.
Conditions races are horse races in which the weights carried by the runners are laid down by the conditions attached to the race. Weights are allocated according to the sex of the runners, with female runners carrying less weight than males; the age of the runners, with younger horses receiving weight from older runners to allow for relative maturity, referred to as weight for age; and the ...
A racing secretary is an occupation in American horseracing.The secretary is typically licensed by the government and is responsible for the custody and safekeeping of horse papers and ownership documents, forming races, compiling a list of entries, keeping a complete record of all races, publishing and printing an accurate race program, writing the condition book, providing records for the ...