Palm Beach Stakes

The Palm Beach Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late February or early March on the turf course at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida over a distance of 1 1/16 miles. A listed event open to three-year-old horses, the Palm Beach Stakes currently offers a purse of $150,000.
History.
The inaugural running in 1987 was run as a Handicap race for horses age three and older. Since then it has been run on an allowance weight basis.
Kitten's Joy, who won the race in 2004, went on to be named that year's Champion Turf Horse after winning the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic and Secretariat Stakes and finishing second in the Breeders' Cup Turf. 2010 winner Paddy O'Prado finished third in the Kentucky Derby, first in the Secretariat, and sixth in the Breeders' Cup Classic in his three-year-old season. 1993 winner Kissin Kris went on to finish seventh in the that' year's Kentucky Derby, second in the Belmont Stakes, first in the Haskell Invitational Stakes, and third in the Breeders' Cup Classic in his three-year-old season.
Jockey Chris Antley's February 9, 1991 win aboard Magic Interlude was one of his five wins that day.
The race was run in two divisions in 1989. It was switched to dirt in 1990, 1993 and 1995.
The Palm Springs has been run at several distances:
The event was downgraded to Listed status in 2021.
Records.
Speed record: (at current distance of 1-1/16 miles)
Most wins by a jockey:
Most wins by a trainer:
Most wins by an owner: