The China Basin Stakes is an ungraded stakes race for three-year-olds and up, run over a distance of eight and a half furlongs on the turf, or one and one/sixteenth mile. Run each year at Golden Gate Fields, it offers a purse of $55,000.
The race is named for an area of the San Francisco Bay.
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—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)