Santa Ysabel Stakes
The Santa Ysabel Stakes is an American Thoroughbred [horse race] once run during January but now run in March at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. The race is open to fillies, age three, willing to race one and one-sixteenths miles on the dirt. The race is a Grade III event with a current purse of $100,000 and is part of the Road to the Kentucky Oaks.
Inaugurated in 1968, the Santa Ysabel Stakes was contested at 7 furlongs in 1970 but has otherwise been run at miles. It was run in two divisions in 1968, 1970, 1972, and 1979.
Records
Speed record:- 1:41.10 – Midnight Bisou
- 4 – Bill Shoemaker
- 4 – Laffit Pincay Jr.
- 4 – Chris McCarron
- 4 – Mike E. Smith
- 9 – Bob Baffert
- 3 – Kaleem Shah