Del Mar Racetrack Del Mar, California, United States
Inaugurated
1979 (as Native Diver Handicap at Hollywood Park)
Race type
Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website
Del Mar
Race information
Distance
1+1⁄8 miles
Surface
Dirt
Track
left-handed
Qualification
Three-year-olds and up
Weight
Base weights with allowances: 4-year-olds and up: 125 lbs. 3-year-olds: 122 lbs.
Purse
$100,000 (since 2016)
The Native Diver Stakes is a Grade III American thoroughbred horse race for three-years-old and older over a distance of one and one eighth miles on the dirt held annually in late November at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. The event offers a purse of $100,000.
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The NativeDiverStakes is a Grade III American thoroughbred horse race for three-years-old and older over a distance of one and one eighth miles on the...
Horse." He compiled 34 stakes wins throughout his career, but never won outside California or in any championships. NativeDiver was bred and owned by...
fall meet was added, featuring the Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes, Hollywood Derby, and Matriarch Stakes. Del Mar hosted the Breeders' Cup for the first time...
United States and Canada that meet the graded stakes standards maintained by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders...
was increased in length to 1 and 1/8th mile in 2012. Most wins: 3 - NativeDiver (1963, 1964, 1966) 1997 - El Angelo 1996 - Fastness 1995 - Blaze O'Brien...
Stakes, Princess Rooney Handicap, Clement L. Hirsch Memorial Turf Championship Stakes, and many more major horse races. Trujillo rode in his native Panama...
and a son of Imbros in 1962, the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, NativeDiver. Speed record: (at current distance of 6 furlongs. 1:08.16 - Backbackbackgone...
Cigar, Swaps, Seabiscuit, Skip Away, Gallant Man, Challedon, Ack Ack, NativeDiver, Noor, Two Lea and Exceller. In the 73rd running of the Hollywood Gold...
California Breeders' Champion Stakes. Buster Millerick avoided the limelight as much as possible. In a July 2005 story on NativeDiver, the California Thoroughbred...
Forebrace (won ARC Mitchelson Cup), Main Affair (ARC Ladies Mile) and NativeDiver (ARC Queen Elizabeth Handicap). His daughter, Topaz produced Chimbu who...
1997 aged 82. Great Britain Derby Stakes - Pearl Diver (1947) Oaks Stakes - Hycilla (1944) St Leger Stakes - Sun Castle (1941) France Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe...
generation in 1971 with win in the Group Two Champagne Stakes and the Group One Dewhurst Stakes. He was retired from racing after a single, unsuccessful...
recent was Kingsgate Native in 2007. It is also the only Group 1 race in Great Britain open to two-year-old geldings. The Nunthorpe Stakes is currently held...
US Hall of Famer NativeDiver won the 1964 rendition of the event in front of 70,024 on Opening Day. The following year NativeDiver carried a mammoth...
the Belmont Stakes. Lucky Debonair returned to racing at age four in 1966. He won three of five starts, including a win over NativeDiver in California's...
in 1959, Prove It in 1962, South African bred Colorado King in 1964, NativeDiver in 1965. In 1968 the event was moved to the turf track. The Argentine...
who finished second in a dead heat. The brilliant Californian horse NativeDiver raced in the event four times winning it twice in 1963 and 1967 as an...
Eclipse Stakes – the first colt to accomplish this treble since 1989 champion Nashwan – the International Stakes, the Irish Champion Stakes and the Prix...
winning streak were Lightning Stakes at Flemington in 2008, Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley in 2008 and T J Smith Stakes at Randwick in 2008. He also...
consecutive editions of the San Bernardino Handicap plus the Mervyn Leroy and NativeDiver Handicaps. In 1990, Ruhlmann won the most important race of his career...
28, 2009 Rags to Riches to resume training - Well Armed earns shot in NativeDiver, ESPN, November 13, 2007 Well Armed wins Dubai World Cup, Associated...