Santa Monica Stakes

The Santa Monica Stakes is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late January/early February at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Opern to fillies and mares age four and older, it is contested on Pro-Ride synthetic dirt over a distance of seven furlongs.

Inaugurated in 1957, through 1959 it was open to horses three-year-olds and up of either sex.

The race was run in two divisions in 1961 and 1965.

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