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The Hillsborough Stakes Grade II<br />
The Grade II $200,000 Hillsborough Stakes<br />
Fastest Time: 1 1/<strong>16</strong>th 1:41.14 STRAIT FROM TEXAS (2003)<br />
Fastest Time: 1 1/8th 1:46.26 TEPIN (20<strong>16</strong>)<br />
Slowest Time: 1 1/<strong>16</strong>th 1:42.62 PLEASANT TEMPER (1999)<br />
Slowest Time: 1 1/8th 1:52.59 RIZZI GIRL (2005)<br />
Longest Priced Winner: $ 29.20 PLATINUM TIARA (2002)<br />
Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.80 TEPIN (20<strong>16</strong>)<br />
Closest Winning Margin: NOSE BACKSEAT RHYTHM (2009)<br />
CLOUD SCAPES (2014)<br />
Largest Winning Margin: 6 ¾ Lengths DREAMING OF ANNA (2008)<br />
Shortest Price Loser: $ .70 SNOWDROPS (2005)<br />
Track Condition: FIRM All except<br />
GOOD 1999 and 2005<br />
YIELDING 2008<br />
Tepin winning the Hillsborough<br />
Richest Purse: 20<strong>16</strong> $200,000<br />
Other Notes: The Hillsborough achieved Grade II status and a purse increase in 20<strong>16</strong>, but the performance by the reigning Eclipse Award<br />
Champion Grass Female, Tepin, was priceless. She set a course record of 1:46.26 after trailing by at least 19 lengths on the backstretch. Tepin is the<br />
fourth mare in five years to win both the Hillsborough and the Grade III Lambholm South Endeavour. Stephanie’s Kitten’s 2015 victory paved the<br />
way for her triumph in that year’s Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf. She finished her career with $4.29-million in career earnings. Her jockey, Hall<br />
of Fame member John Velazquez, has won the Hillsborough three times, the most of any rider. Old Tune’s 2013 Hillsborough victory was her sixth<br />
consecutive stakes score. She won Brazil’s Filly Triple Crown in 2012. Her trainer, Todd Pletcher, won three previous editions of the Hillsborough: in<br />
2006 with Ready’s Girl, in 2007 with Cassydora and in 2010 with Phola. After winning both the Grade III Endeavour and the Hillsborough in 2012,<br />
Zagora won the Grade III Gallorette at Pimlico, the Grade II Ballston Spa at Saratoga and the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita. She<br />
also won the Eclipse Award as Champion Grass Female. She was also a Grade I winner in 2011. In 2008, Dreaming of Anna swept both the Endeavour<br />
Breeders’ Cup on Festival Preview Day and the Hillsborough on Festival Day. The 2002 winner, Platinum Tiara, was owned by M375 Thoroughbreds,<br />
a partnership that included former major league pitcher Rob Murphy.<br />
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