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The Florida Oaks
The Grade III $200,000 Florida Oaks
Fastest Time: 1:43.65 (MAIN TRACK) DON’T FORGET GIL (2009)
1:41.89 (TURF) TAPICAT (2013)
Slowest Time: 1:48.0 (MAIN TRACK) ERSTWHILE (1985)
1:45.56 (TURF) DYNAMIC HOLIDAY (2011)
Longest Priced Winner: $169.20 SHE’S SCRUMPTIOUS (1989)
Shortest Priced Winner: $2.60 EBONY BREEZE (2003)
Closest Winning Margin: Nose MINDY GAYLE (1996)
DIXIE STRIKE (2012)
Largest Winning Margin: 9 Lengths R LADY JOY (2005)
Shortest Price Loser: $.30 PLUM COUNTRY (1996)
STRATEGIC MANEUVER (1994)
Track Condition: FIRM All turf runnings
GOOD 2011
Baciami Piccola winning the Florida Oaks on 3/12
Richest Purse: 2006, 2014-present $200,000
Other Notes: Both the 2016 Florida Oaks winner and the runner-up, Baciami Piccola and Enjoy Yourself, were bred in Great Britain. Jockey Jose Lezcano won
three of four editions of the Florida Oaks from 2012-2015 and has won four overall, the most of any jockey. The triumph by Quality Rocks in 2015 was the third
in the race for Hall of Fame trainer William Mott, the most of any conditioner. Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day won the race three times. In 1996, the Florida Oaks
attained Grade III status; it lost graded status twice in ensuing years but was graded for the 2013 edition. It was contested on the turf for the first time in 2011. Jockey
Jorge Guerra won the Tampa Bay Derby and the Florida Oaks on the same day in 1996, a first-time accomplishment for any rider. Pat Day won both races in 1998;
Richard Migliore won both in 2001; and Ramon Dominguez won both in 2002. Trainer Glenn Wismer has won the race twice, in 1989 and 1992. Secret Status, the
2000 winner, went on to win the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. The 2003 Florida Oaks winner, Ebony Breeze, developed into a multiple-graded stakes winner
and millionaire for George Steinbrenner’s Kinsman Stable.
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