The Bay Meadows Breeders' Cup Sprint is a race for

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held each year at

Bay Meadows Bay Meadows was a horse racing Race track, track in San Mateo, California from 1934 until 2008, in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States of America, United States. History Built on the site of an old airfield, Bay Meadows Racecourse w ...

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. The race is open to four-year-olds and up willing to make a six

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dash on the dirt. A Grade III event, it offers a trophy and a purse of $100,000 (includes $25,000 from the

Breeders' Cup The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Grade I Thoroughbred horse races, operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982. From its inception in 1984 through 2006, it was a single-day event; starting in 2007, ...

Fund). In 2009, this race was downgraded from a Grade III event to ungraded status.

Past winners

* 2008 - Bonfante (Frank Alvarado) * 2007 - Smokey Stover (

Aaron Gryder Aaron Tod Gryder (born June 5, 1970, in West Covina, California) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Career At age 16 in 1986, Gryder began his career as a professional jockey in Tijuana, Mexico at Agua Caliente Racetrack. His fi ...

) * 2006 - Carthage (Dennis Carr) * 2005 - * 2004 - Court's in Session (Roberto Gonzalez) * 2003 - El Dorado Shooter (Chad Schvaneveld) * 2002 - Mellow Fellow (

Russell Baze Russell Avery Baze (born 7 August 1958 ) is a retired horse racing jockey. He holds the record for the most race wins in North American horse racing history, and is a member of the United States Racing Hall of Fame and the State of Washington S ...

) * 2001 - Lexicon (Russell Baze) * 2000 - Lexicon (Russell Baze) * 1999 - Big Jag ( Jose Valdivia, Jr.)

References

{{Reflist Horse races in California Open sprint category horse races