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The Tropical Park Oaks is an American
Thoroughbred
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horse race
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run at
Calder Race Course
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New Year's Day
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. The one and one sixteenth mile ungraded stakesturf event for 3-year-old fillies offers a purse of $100,000 added.
The race is named for the old
Tropical Park Race Track
Tropical Park Race Track was a horse racing facility built on at the current intersection of Bird Road and the Palmetto Expressway in Southwest Dade Miami part of metropolitan Miami, Florida and what is now Olympia Heights. The race track was ...
.
Past winners
* 1995 – Rose Law Firm (
Mike E. Smith
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* 1996 – Lulu's Ransom (Herb McCauley)
* 1997 – Reach the Top (
José A. Santos
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Career
Jose Santos first raced horses ...
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* 1998 – To Be Approved (
Eibar Coa
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A five-time Judo Champion in his teens, He attended jockey school from 1989 to 1991 then began his pr ...
Jerry Bailey
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Early years
Bailey was born ...