Gran Premio Estrellas Sprint
The Gran Premio Estrellas Sprint is a Group 1 horse race that is part of the Carreras de las Estrellas and is open to horses three years old or older. It is run over a distance of either on the turf at Hipódromo de San Isidro or on the dirt at the Hipódromo Argentino de Palermo.
History
The Gran Premio Estrellas Sprint was added to the Carreras de las Estrellas in its second year, 1992. That first year, the race was restricted to three-year-olds only. Since then, the race has been run under a variety of age conditions, as follows:- Three-year-olds: 1992
- Two-years-old and up: 2009–2011
- Three-years-old and up: 1995–2008, 2012–2019, 2021–
- Four-years-old and up: 1993–1994, 2020
The winner the first year, Gold Spring, had won the inaugural Gran Premio Estrellas Junior Sprint the year before. This feat has since been accomplished by 2002 winner Mister Phone, 2015 winner Feel the Race, and 2023 and 2024 winner Labrado.
Wally won the Gran Premio Estrellas Sprint three times, 1995, 1996, and 1997, making her the only horse to win the same Estrellas race three times. Labrado, the only other horse to win three Estrellas races, won two of them in the Gran Premio Estrellas Sprint.
In 2012, the Gran Premio Estrellas Sprint was restricted to winners only.
Records
Speed record:- :53.77 – Compasivo Cat
- 6 lengths – Luthier Blues
- 3 – Wally
- 2 – Elogiado
- 2 – Labrado
- 7 – Pablo Gustavo Falero
- 5 – Jacinto R. Herrera
- 3 – Juan Carlos Etchechoury
- 3 – Carlos Alberto Zarlengo
- 3 – Ángel Natividad Bonetto
- 3 – Haras La Quebrada
- 3 – Stud Rubio B.
- 7 – Haras La Quebrada
- 4 – Haras Vacación
- 4 – Haras La Pasión
- 3 – Haras El Paraíso