The Californian Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California (relocated from the now closed Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California ). The Grade II event is open to horses age three and up willing to race one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs ) on the dirt. This race serves as a key prep to the Hollywood Gold Cup .
5-444: Inaugurated in 1954, winner Imbros set a new track record of 1:41.00 which also equaled the then world record for a mile and sixteenth on dirt. Since inception the race has been contested at three different distances: Speed record: (at current distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles ) Most wins: Most wins by a jockey : Most wins by a trainer : Most wins by an owner: Imbros (horse) Imbros (1950–1972)
10-597: The 1953 Will Rogers Stakes at Hollywood Park Racetrack . At age four, he set a world record for seven furlongs in winning the 1954 Malibu Sequet Stakes at Santa Anita Park and equalled the world record for 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs in winning the Californian Stakes at Hollywood Park. On April 24, 1954, Johnny Longden rode him to a Bay Meadows track record for one mile in winning the Governor Goodwin J. Knight Handicap. One week later on May 1 at
15-597: The same track, Imbros set another track record of 1⅛ miles while capturing the William P. Kyne Handicap, the first $ 100,000 stakes race at Bay Meadows Racetrack . As well, Imbros twice equaled the Santa Anita Park track record for six furlongs [1] and finished second in the Premiere , Santa Anita , and Lakes And Flowers Handicaps . Imbros raced at age five with his best results being runner-up finishes in
20-731: Was a daughter of Bull Dog who was the leading sire in North America in 1943 and a three-time Leading broodmare sire in North America . Imbros was purchased by California businessman Andrew Crevolin at the Keeneland Summer Sale of yearlings and named for the Turkish island of Imbros in the Aegean Sea . He was trained by Bill Molter in California. At age three, Imbros won four stakes races, including
25-556: Was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who set or equaled six track records including a new world record for seven furlongs in winning the 1954 Malibu Sequet Stakes at Santa Anita Park and equaled the world record for a mile and a sixteenth in winning the 1954 Californian Stakes at Hollywood Park Racetrack . Bred in Kentucky by Royce G. Martin's Woodvale Farm, his sire was Polynesian who also sired U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Native Dancer . His dam, Fire Falls,
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