For other uses, see Fantasy Stakes (disambiguation).
Horse race
Fantasy Stakes
Grade II race
Location
Oaklawn Park Race Track Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States
Inaugurated
1973
Race type
Thoroughbred – Flat racing
Website
www.oaklawn.com
Race information
Distance
1+1⁄16 miles
Surface
Dirt
Track
left-handed
Qualification
Three-year-old fillies
Weight
121 lbs. with allowances
Purse
US$750,000 (since 2024)
The Fantasy Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt run annually usually in early April at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The event currently offers a purse of $750,000.
The FantasyStakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt run...
Martha Washington Stakes, the Honeybee Stakes, and the FantasyStakes. She won the Martha Washington by 13½ lengths, setting a stakes record for margin...
3+1⁄2 lengths. She then earned her second graded stakes win on May 1, when she won the FantasyStakes. She came in as the underdog at 16:1 odds and defeated...
two-year-old in 2018 she won her three remaining races including the FantasyStakes and Hanshin Juvenile Fillies and took the JRA Award for Best Two-Year-Old...
in Japan in 2004 when she won two of her three races including the FantasyStakes and ran third in the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies. She improved in the following...
Jones won the Kentucky Derby. The colt then went on to win the Preakness Stakes further increasing Servis' reputation. Servis' Cathryn Sophia won 2016 Kentucky...
Washington Stakes and Fair Grounds Oaks, Rachel Alexandra stepped into the Oaklawn Park starting gate as the 1–10 favorite in the FantasyStakes and led...
States. After winning several important Grade I stakes events on the West Coast and the Grade II FantasyStakes at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Lite...
this feat in the same year. On May 16, 2009, Borel won the 2009 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico with thoroughbred filly Rachel Alexandra. In doing so, Borel...
l' Avre and was the sire of six stakes-winners in Australia with Better Loosen Up being the best one. Better Fantasy was the dam of 13 named foals, but...
in the Grade III Honeybee Stakes. A month later she would repeat this convincing performance in the Grade II FantasyStakes. Joyful Victory was also entered...
40 under jockey Aaron Gryder. In early April, she won the grade two FantasyStakes at one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt at Oaklawn Park under her...
leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, the Preakness Stakes. In the Belmont Stakes, the third leg, Elliott took Smarty Jones out early in the backstretch...
the Forward Gal Stakes and third to her in the Bonnie Miss Stakes. Heavenly Cause then went on to win the La Troienne and FantasyStakes before capturing...
allowance at Florida's Hialeah Park, which she won. Then she won the FantasyStakes at Oaklawn Park, the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont Park (at...
Preakness Stakes aboard I'll Have Another. These Grade III events were held at Hastings Racecourse in 2019: British Columbia Derby Ballerina Stakes BC Premier's...
Champion Two-Year-Old Filly of 2019. After finishing unplaced in the 2020 FantasyStakes, it was revealed that British Idiom had sustained an injury to her right-front...
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