Baldwin Stakes
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The Baldwin Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race
Thoroughbred horse race
Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies. There are two forms of the sport: Flat racing and National Hunt racing...

 held annually in early March at Santa Anita Park
Santa Anita Park
Santa Anita Park is a thoroughbred racetrack in Arcadia, California, United States. It offers some of the prominent racing events in the United States during the winter and in spring. With its backdrop of the purple San Gabriel Mountains, it is considered by many as the world's most beautiful race...

 in Arcadia, California
Arcadia, California
Arcadia is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, and located approximately northeast of downtown Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley and at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains....

. A Grade III
Graded stakes race
A graded stakes race is a term applied since 1973 by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay...

 event for three-year-old horses, it is contested on turf
Grass
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 at a distance of about six and one-half furlong
Furlong
A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one-eighth of a mile, equivalent to 220 yards, 660 feet, 40 rods, or 10 chains. The exact value of the furlong varies slightly among English-speaking countries....

s.

The race was transferred to Santa Anita's dirt track in 1979, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2005 and 2006. It was run in two divisions in 1968 and again in 1988.

Records

Speed record: (on turf)
  • 1:11.96 – Desert code (2007)


Most wins by an owner:

Most wins by a jockey
Jockey
A jockey is an athlete who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing.-Etymology:...

:
  • 5 – Ed Delahoussaye
    Eddie Delahoussaye
    Edward J. Delahoussaye is a retired American Thoroughbred jockey from New Iberia, Louisiana.He began his career in 1968 and ten years later became the top American jockey with 384 wins...

     (1982, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1998)


Most wins by a trainer
Horse trainer
In horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter...

:
  • 3 – Charles Whittingham (1968, 1969, 1971)

Winners

Year
Winner
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
2009 Battle of Hastings Tyler Baze
Tyler Baze
Tyler Baze is an American Champion jockey. Born into a racing family, both of his parents were jockeys as is his uncle, Gary Baze. His second cousin is U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey, Russell Baze....

Jeff Mullins
Jeff Mullins (racehorse trainer)
Jeff Mullins is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.-References:* * * *...

Michael House 1:11.86
2008 Ten Meropa Tyler Baze
Tyler Baze
Tyler Baze is an American Champion jockey. Born into a racing family, both of his parents were jockeys as is his uncle, Gary Baze. His second cousin is U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey, Russell Baze....

Ral Ayers A and R Stables 1:13.09
2007 Desert Code Richard Migliore David Hofmans
David Hofmans
David E. Hofmans is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. Born and raised in Los Angeles, as a boy his father brought him to watch horse racing at area tracks. While a student at Pasadena City College he became friends with Gary Jones...

Tarabilla Farms, Inc. 1:11.96
2006 Fast Parade Garrett Gomez Peter Miller James McIngvale 1:15.11
2005 High Standards Edgar Prado Martin F. Jones Harris Farms 1:16.16
2004 Seattle Borders Alex Solis
Alex Solis
Alex O. Solis is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California...

Robert J. Frankel Edmund A. Gann
Edmund A. Gann
Edmund A. Gann is an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner.-Early life and career:...

1:14.09
2003 Buddy Gil Gary Stevens Jeff Mullins
Jeff Mullins (racehorse trainer)
Jeff Mullins is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.-References:* * * *...

Desperado Stables et al. 1:12.56
2002 Shuffling Kid Pat Valenzuela
Pat Valenzuela
Patrick Angel Valenzuela is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born into a racing family, his father plus three of his uncles, including Ismael Valenzuela, were jockeys. He rode his first career winner on November 10, 1978, at Sunland Park Racetrack in Sunland Park, New Mexico...

Michael Machowsky Blahut et al. 1:13.30
2001 Skip To The Stone Corey Nakatani
Corey Nakatani
Corey S. Nakatani is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He got his big break in 1990 when he rode Itsallgreektome to win big stakes races.Nakatani currently resides at Belmont Park...

Mike R. Mitchell Greystone Racing 1:16.29
2000 Fortifier Brice Blanc
Brice Blanc
Brice Blanc is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Blanc attended a jockey's apprentice school in his native France then, encouraged by trainer Ben Cecil, in October 1993 emigrated to the United States where he settled in Southern California and began racing at area tracks...

Dan L. Hendricks
Dan L. Hendricks
Dan L. Hendricks is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Hendricks took out his trainers license in 1987 after working for Richard Mandella for nine years. On July 7, 2004, Dan is paralyzed from the waist down as the result of a motocross accident at Perris, California...

Howell S. Wynne 1:16.79
1999 American Spirit Emile Ramsammy
Emile Ramsammy
Emile Ramsammy is a Canadian thoroughbred horse racing Champion jockey. He had more than 500 victories racing in the Caribbean before emigrating to Canada in the early 1990s....

Bob Baffert
Bob Baffert
Robert A. "Bob" Baffert is an American horse owner and trainer, whose horses have won three Kentucky Derbies, five Preakness Stakes, one Belmont Stakes and two Kentucky Oaks. He graduated from the University of Arizona's with a Bachelor of Science degree. -Early career:Bob Baffert began his...

Donald R. Dizney 1:13.93
1998 Wrekin Pilot Ed Delahoussaye
Eddie Delahoussaye
Edward J. Delahoussaye is a retired American Thoroughbred jockey from New Iberia, Louisiana.He began his career in 1968 and ten years later became the top American jockey with 384 wins...

James M. Cassidy Southern Nevada Racing 1:13.32
1997 Latin Dancer Corey Black
Corey Black
Corey A. Black is a retired Champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Born in Westminster, California, Black won his first race as a professional apprentice jockey on October 16, 1985, during the Oak Tree Racing Association meet at Santa Anita Park...

Randy Bradshaw Siegel family 1:14.48
1996 Sandtrap Corey Nakatani
Corey Nakatani
Corey S. Nakatani is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He got his big break in 1990 when he rode Itsallgreektome to win big stakes races.Nakatani currently resides at Belmont Park...

Ben D. A. Cecil Robert E. Hibbert 1:15.03
1995 Sierra Diablo Ed Delahoussaye
Eddie Delahoussaye
Edward J. Delahoussaye is a retired American Thoroughbred jockey from New Iberia, Louisiana.He began his career in 1968 and ten years later became the top American jockey with 384 wins...

Mark A. Hennig
Mark A. Hennig
Mark A. Hennig is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Born into a horse racing family, his father, John Hennig, was also a trainer. After working with his father, Mark Hennig became an assistant to Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas before going out on his own in 1991.-References:*...

Lee & Debi Lewis 1:15.36
1994 Silver Music Chris Antley
Chris Antley
Christopher Wiley Antley was a champion American jockey.He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida but grew up in Elloree, South Carolina. He left school at sixteen to ride horses professionally at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. His first win was on a horse named Vaya Con Dinero...

Wallace Dollase
Wallace Dollase
Wallace A. "Wally" Dollase is an American trainer and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses.Among his numerous Graded stakes race wins, Dollase won the 1996 Breeders' Cup Distaff with Jewel Princess who was voted that year's Eclipse Award as the American Champion Older Female Horse.Wally Dollase and...

Lauren Cohen 1:13.76
1993 Future Storm Kent Desormeaux
Kent Desormeaux
Kent Jason Desormeaux is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who holds the U.S. record for most races won in a single year, 1989.-Brief biography:...

Robert J. Frankel Antonio Balzarini 1:15.02
1992 Reckless Ruckus Pat Valenzuela
Pat Valenzuela
Patrick Angel Valenzuela is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born into a racing family, his father plus three of his uncles, including Ismael Valenzuela, were jockeys. He rode his first career winner on November 10, 1978, at Sunland Park Racetrack in Sunland Park, New Mexico...

Craig C. Lewis Connelly et al. 1:17.28
1991 What A Spell David Flores
David R. Flores
David Romero Flores is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.His father was a jockey and an exercise rider in Southern California....

Craig C. Lewis Jim Ford, Inc. et al. 1:16.20
1990 Farma Way
Farma Way
Farma Way was an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse foaled in Kentucky. He was sired by Santa Anita Derby winner Marfa out of the Diplomat Way mare, Fine Tribute, a descendant of the very important sire, Nearco....

Ray Sibille
Ray Sibille
Raymond Frederick Sibille is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. In a career that spanned thirty-five years, Sibille rode his first winner on June 29, 1969 at Evangeline Downs in Carencro, Louisiana...

Neil Boyce Quarter B Farm 1:13.80
1989 Tenacious Tom Ed Delahoussaye
Eddie Delahoussaye
Edward J. Delahoussaye is a retired American Thoroughbred jockey from New Iberia, Louisiana.He began his career in 1968 and ten years later became the top American jockey with 384 wins...

Ross Fenstermaker Dante family 1:14.80
1988 Exclusive Nureyev Ed Delahoussaye
Eddie Delahoussaye
Edward J. Delahoussaye is a retired American Thoroughbred jockey from New Iberia, Louisiana.He began his career in 1968 and ten years later became the top American jockey with 384 wins...

Hector O. Palma Ginji Yasuda 1:14.40
1988 Dr. Brent Alex Solis
Alex Solis
Alex O. Solis is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California...

Morris Soriano Braverman & Colvin 1:15.00
1987 Chime Time Pat Valenzuela
Pat Valenzuela
Patrick Angel Valenzuela is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born into a racing family, his father plus three of his uncles, including Ismael Valenzuela, were jockeys. He rode his first career winner on November 10, 1978, at Sunland Park Racetrack in Sunland Park, New Mexico...

John W. Sadler
John W. Sadler
John W. Sadler is an American horse trainer in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing.Sadler got his first win in 1979 at Golden Gate Fields racetrack in the San Francisco Bay Area...

King Bros/Miramar Stable 1:15.00
1986 Jetting Home Darrel McHargue
Darrel McHargue
Darrel G. McHargue is a retired American Champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. One of five children from a family not connected to horse racing, he was first introduced to riding as a teeneage boy when he rode a neighbor's Quarter Horse...

Tom Richardson Mrs. J. K. Ferguson 1:17.40
1985 Knighthood Gary Stevens Steve Morguelan Welcome Farm 1:14.80
1984 Debonaire Junior Chris McCarron
Chris McCarron
Christopher John "Chris" McCarron is a retired American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He is currently working as a racing analyst for TVG Network....

Noble Threewitt
Noble Threewitt
Noble Threewitt was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer who conditioned horses for seventy-five years before retiring on his ninety-sixth birthday...

Jack D. Rogers 1:14.40
1983 Total Departure Laffit Pincay, Jr.
Laffit Pincay, Jr.
Laffit Alejandro Pincay, Jr. is a flat racing's all-time winningest jockey. He competed primarily in the United States.-Career:...

D. Wayne Lukas
D. Wayne Lukas
Darrell Wayne Lukas is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S...

Rebalot 1:15.20
1982 Remember John Ed Delahoussaye
Eddie Delahoussaye
Edward J. Delahoussaye is a retired American Thoroughbred jockey from New Iberia, Louisiana.He began his career in 1968 and ten years later became the top American jockey with 384 wins...

Darrell Vienna Mr. & Mrs. J. Sheridan 1:15.20
1981 Descaro Darrel McHargue
Darrel McHargue
Darrel G. McHargue is a retired American Champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. One of five children from a family not connected to horse racing, he was first introduced to riding as a teeneage boy when he rode a neighbor's Quarter Horse...

Lou Carno Barbara Kolbe 1:14.60
1980 Corvette Chris Fernando Toro Gerry Belanger Edward B. Seedhouse 1:13.60
1979 To B. Or Not Chuck Baltazar Larry J. Sterling Bohm Stables 1:15.60
1978 B. W. Turner Donald Pierce
Donald R. Pierce
Donald R. Pierce is a retired U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.Based in California, Pierce earned his first win in 1954 and went on to become a leading jockey in the 1960s and 1970s...

Ross Fenstermaker Fred W. Hooper
Fred W. Hooper
Fred William Hooper was an American Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder. He was a member of The Jockey Club, an honorary director of the Breeders' Cup, and one of the founders of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and one of its first presidents.Born in Cleveland, Georgia, ...

1:14.00
1977 Current Concept Sandy Hawley
Sandy Hawley
Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...

Jerry Dutton Cardiff Stud Farm 1:13.20
1976 Gaelic Christian Rudy Rosales Ken Bowyer Kama Farms, Inc. 1:13.60
1975 Uniformity Sandy Hawley
Sandy Hawley
Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...

Willard L. Proctor
Willard L. Proctor
Williard L. Proctor was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. A longtime trainer in California, he began his career as a jockey at bush tracks in Texas and Louisiana. After his riding days were over he turned to training, moving to California in 1955...

Glen Hill Farm 1:13.20
1974 Battery E. Laffit Pincay, Jr.
Laffit Pincay, Jr.
Laffit Alejandro Pincay, Jr. is a flat racing's all-time winningest jockey. He competed primarily in the United States.-Career:...

Keith L. Stucki Diamond M Ranch 1:14.00
1973 Bensadream Donald Pierce
Donald R. Pierce
Donald R. Pierce is a retired U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.Based in California, Pierce earned his first win in 1954 and went on to become a leading jockey in the 1960s and 1970s...

Buster Millerick
Buster Millerick
Michael E. "Buster" Millerick was an American Hall of Fame racehorse trainer.Universally known by the nickname, "Buster," Millerick was born in Petaluma, California and learned his trade at his cousins ranch in Sonoma Valley Michael E. "Buster" Millerick (November 30, 1905 - September 30, 1986)...

Hodges & Osher 1:14.00
1972 Finalista Laffit Pincay, Jr.
Laffit Pincay, Jr.
Laffit Alejandro Pincay, Jr. is a flat racing's all-time winningest jockey. He competed primarily in the United States.-Career:...

L. Brooks Frazee & Frazee 1:13.80
1971 Restless Runner Eddie Belmonte
Eddie Belmonte
Eddie Belmonte is a retired jockey who competed at the highest levels in Thoroughbred horse racing in his native Puerto Rico and in the United States....

Charles Whittingham Llangollen Farm 1:13.20
1970 Smugglin George Jerry Lambert
Jerry Lambert (jockey)
Jerry Lambert is a retired American jockey in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing best known as the jockey of Hall of Fame inductee, Native Diver.Jerry Lambert accomplished what Breeders' Cup Inc...

P. Noordwal Dr. & Mrs. G. J. Shima 1:13.00
1969 Tell Bill Shoemaker Charles Whittingham Mrs. Howard B. Keck 1:12.80
1968 Royal Fols Willie Harmatz Cecil Jolly Royal Oaks Farm et al. 1:12.80
1968 Fiddle Isle Johnny Sellers
Johnny Sellers
Johnny Sellers was an American jockey. Born in Los Angeles, but raised in Oklahoma, he began his professional career in 1955 and between 1959 and 1968 rode in six Kentucky Derbys. He won the prestigious race aboard Carry Back in 1961 then riding the colt to victory in the Preakness Stakes...

Charles Whittingham Howard B. Keck 1:13.40
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