Osunitas Stakes
Restricted non-graded stakes race
LocationDel Mar Racetrack
Del Mar, California,
United States
Inaugurated1945
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewww.dmtc.com
Race information
Distance1+116 miles (8.5 furlongs)
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationFillies & Mares, 3-years-old & up
Weight3-year-olds: 118 lbs.
Older horses: 123 lbs. plus allowances
Purse$85,000 added
Bonuses$22,500 to winners bred in California

The Osunitas Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the third week of July at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. Open to fillies and mares age three and older, it is raced on turf over a distance of a mile and one sixteenth.[1]

Historical notes

Hall of Fame inductee Bill Shoemaker, whose four wins in the Osunitas Handicap is the most for any jockey, earned his first ever win as a trainer when Baldomero won this event for him in 1990. [2]

Records

Speed record: (at current 1+116 miles)

Most wins:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Winners

References