What A Pleasure Stakes
The What a Pleasure Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds held annually at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, Florida. It is currently an ungraded stakes race run over a distance of 8.5 furlongs on dirt. The race has traditionally been held during the Tropical at Calder meet, from late October through early January. This meet normally has some of the strongest stakes programs of Calder's eight-month season. Due to permit disputes with Hialeah Park Race Track, the race was pushed back in 1987 and 1991 into the following year. Both of those races were subsequently run for three-year-olds and were won by Zie World (1988) and Sir Pinder (1992).http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1990-04-03/news/9002010872_1_brunetti-bertram-firestone-hialeah The race has served as a springboard for Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled as well as such graded-stakes winners as Suave Prospect, Alydeed, Primal, Creme Fraiche, Certain and Morning Bob. Winners since 1991 ...
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Miami Gardens, Florida
Miami Gardens is a city in north-central Miami-Dade County, Florida. It is located north of Downtown Miami with city boundaries that stretch from I-95 and Northeast 2nd Avenue to its east to Northwest 47th and Northwest 57th Avenues to its west, and from the Broward County line to its north to 151st Street to its south. The city's name originated from Florida State Road 860, a major roadway through the area also known as Miami Gardens Drive. Miami Gardens had a population of 111,640 as of 2020. It is Florida's most populous city with a majority African American population and also home to the largest percentage of African Americans (66.97 percent) of any city in Florida, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It is a principal city within the Miami metropolitan area, the nation's ninth largest and world's 65th largest metropolitan area with a population of 6.158 million people as of 2020. Miami Gardens is the home of Hard Rock Stadium, a 64,767 capacity multi-purpose stadium ...
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