Buena Vista Stakes

The Buena Vista Stakes is an annual race for Thoroughbred horses held early in the year at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.  Open to fillies and mares, age four and up, willing to race one mile (8 furlongs) on the turf, it is a Grade II event.

Run in mid February, the Buena Vista currently offers a purse of $200,000.

It was run as the Buena Vista Handicap through 2012. It assumed its current name beginning with the 2013 running.

The Buena Vista Handicap was run in two divisions in 1992.

It was taken off the turf and run on the dirt course in 2017 due to poor conditions on the turf course. When a graded stakes scheduled for the turf is taken off the turf, the race is automatically downgraded one level for that running only. After the race, the American Graded Stakes Committee meets to review the race's running and determine if its former status should be reinstated. In the case of the 2017 Buena Vista Stakes, it was decided that the race's status would not be reinstated and as such it was recognized as a Grade III race.

Records
Speed  record:
 1:33.33 - Pontchatrain (2014)

Most wins:
 No horse has won this race more than once.

Most wins by an owner:
 4 - Juddmonte Farms (1994, 1997, 2008, 2009)

Most wins by a jockey:
 5 - Gary Stevens (1996, 2004, 2014, 2015, 2016)

Most wins by a trainer:
 5 - Robert J. Frankel (1994, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2009)

Winners

References

 The 2008 Buena Vista Handicap at the NTRA

Category:Flat horse races for four-year-old fillies
Category:Graded stakes races in the United States
Category:Turf races in the United States
Category:Mile category horse races for fillies and mares
Category:Horse races in California
Category:Recurring sporting events established in 1988
Category:Santa Anita Park
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