The Robert B. Lewis Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three year old horses at the distance of one mile on the dirt held annually in late January or early February at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California .
10-751: Inaugurated as the Santa Catalina Handicap in 1935, there was no race in 1936. Upon its return in 1937, it was run as the Santa Catalina California-Bred Championship Stakes until 1940 when it was renamed the Santa Catalina Nursery Stakes and was a three-furlong race for two-year-olds. In 1941 it reverted to its original name, the Santa Catalina Handicap and remained as that until 1964 when it became
20-718: A leg in the Belmont Stakes . Commendable won the Belmont Stakes in 2000 wearing Lewis' colors. Orientate won the Breeders' Cup Sprint in 2002 while Folklore won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies championship. Bob Lewis died on February 17, 2006. In 2007, Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California , renamed the Santa Catalina Stakes in his honor. On October 20, 2017, his wife Beverly died at
30-725: A number of champion Thoroughbred racehorses during the 1990s and 2000s. Bob Lewis was born in Minneapolis and grew up in Glendale, California . He served in the United States Army during World War II before studying at the University of Oregon . At Oregon, Lewis was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. After graduating, he worked in Los Angeles as a beer salesman. In 1956, he started his own company,
40-596: Is one of the key prep races leading to the Santa Anita Derby each year and is part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby . Time record: (at the previous distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles) Most wins by an owner: Most wins by a jockey : Most wins by a trainer : Robert B. Lewis Robert B. "Bob" Lewis (May 12, 1924 – February 17, 2006) was an American businessman who owned
50-456: The Breeders' Cup World Championships . Beginning in 2007, the Breeders' Cup developed the Breeders' Cup Challenge , a series of races in each division that allotted automatic qualifying bids to winners of defined races. Each of the fourteen divisions has multiple qualifying races. Note though that one horse may win multiple challenge races, while other challenge winners will not be entered in
60-668: The Preakness Stakes . At the same time, their filly , Serena's Song , was voted the U.S. Champion 3-Year-Old Filly for 1995. After retiring, in 2002 Serena's Song was inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame . That year they were voted the Big Sport of Turfdom Award . Other well known horses owned by the Lewises include Silver Charm , winner of the 1997 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, and
70-725: The 1998 Dubai World Cup , the richest horse race in the world. In 1999, their colt Charismatic also won the Derby and Preakness and was voted United States Horse of the Year . The Lewises had six Eclipse Award winning horses. After Silver Charm won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes in 1997, the couple were voted the Eclipse Award of Merit , the American Thoroughbred horse racing industry's highest honor. Charismatic repeated his stablemate's success in 1999 but broke
80-858: The Foothill Beverage Company, which became one of the biggest Anheuser-Busch distributors in the country. Active philanthropists , the Lewises have a number of charitable works including a $ 5 million donation to the Pomona Valley Hospital to help establish the Robert and Beverly Lewis Family Cancer Care Center. In 1990, Lewis and his wife, Beverly J. Lewis, bought their first Thoroughbreds. They became dedicated owners, spending millions at yearling sales and hiring first class trainers such as Bob Baffert and D. Wayne Lukas . The couple's first major success came when Timber Country won 1994 Breeders' Cup Juvenile then in 1995,
90-516: The Santa Catalina Stakes. In 2007, the race was renamed again in order to honor the prominent racehorse owner Robert B. Lewis , who had died in 2006. Due to restrictions and consolidations during World War II , there was no race held from 1942 through 1944. Until 1964, the race was open to horses three years of age and older with the exception of 1940. The race has been run at a variety of distances: The Robert B. Lewis Stakes
100-483: The age of 90 after a lengthy illness. Breeders%27 Cup Sprint The Breeders' Cup Sprint is an American Weight for Age Grade I Thoroughbred horse race for horses three years old and older. Run on dirt Corrected grade for Santa Anita sprintover a distance of 6 Furlongs ( 3 ⁄ 4 mile), the race has been held annually since 1984 at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of
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