Del Mar November stakes schedule worth $2.25M
Some names have changed, but Del Mar’s November race meeting will offer a program of 14 stakes similar to what was offered at Hollywood Park before that track closed last year.
Del Mar announced its stakes schedule, worth $2,250,000, on Wednesday. The race meeting runs from Nov. 7-30 and will include nine graded stakes formerly run at Hollywood Park.
The highlights of the meeting will be during the final days over Thanksgiving weekend, with two Grade 1 turf races worth $300,000 each – the Hollywood Derby at 1 1/8 miles on Nov. 29 and the Matriarch Stakes for fillies and mares over a mile Nov. 30. The purses of both races have been increased by $50,000.
Thanksgiving weekend begins with two Grade 2 turf races worth $250,000 each – the Hollywood Turf Cup on Nov. 27 and the Seabiscuit Handicap at 1 1/16 miles on Nov. 28, a race formerly known as the Citation Handicap.
The names of seven other races have been changed since being moved from Hollywood Park – the Cat’s Cradle Stakes for California-bred female sprinters is now the Betty Grable Stakes; the Hollywood Prevue Stakes for 2-year-old sprinters is the Bob Hope Stakes; the Moccasin Stakes for 2-year-old filly sprinters will be called the Desi Arnaz Stakes; the Beverly Hills Handicap for females on turf is the Red Carpet Stakes; and the On Trust Stakes for California-bred sprinters is now the Cary Grant Stakes.
Two newly named one-mile races for 2-year-olds will be worth $150,000 each, an increase of $50,000 from 2013 – the Jimmy Durante Stakes for fillies, formerly known as the Miesque Stakes, and the Cecil B. DeMille Stakes, formerly known as the Generous.
| Date | Race | Conditions | Distance | Purse |
| Fri., Nov. 7 | Kathryn Crosby | F-M, 3YO & Up | 1 mile (T) | $75,000 |
| Sat., Nov. 8 | Let It Ride | 3YO & Up | 1 mile (T) | 75,000 |
| Sun., Nov. 9 | Betty Grable | F-M, 3YO & Up* | 7 furlongs | 100,000 |
| Sat., Nov. 15 | Bob Hope (G3) | 2YO | 7 furlongs | 100,000 |
| Sun., Nov. 16 | Desi Arnaz | 2YO F | 7 furlongs | 100,000 |
| Sat., Nov. 22 | Red Carpet Handicap (G3) | F-M, 3YO & Up | 1 3/8 miles (T) | 100,000 |
| Sun., Nov. 23 | Cary Grant | 3YO & Up* | 7 furlongs | 100,000 |
| Thurs., Nov. 27 | Hollywood Turf Cup (G2) | 3YO & Up | 1 1/2 miles (T) | 250,000 |
| Fri., Nov. 28 | Seabiscuit Handicap (G2) | 3YO & Up | 1 1/16 miles (T) | 250,000 |
| Sat., Nov. 29 | Jimmy Durante (G3) | 2YO F | 1 mile (T) | 150,000 |
| Sat., Nov. 29 | Native Diver Handicap (G3) | 3YO & Up | 1 1/8 miles | 200,000 |
| Sat., Nov. 29 | Hollywood Derby (G1) | 3YO | 1 1/8 miles (T) | 300,000 |
| Sun., Nov. 30 | Cecil B. Demille (G3) | 2YO | 1 mile (T) | 150,000 |
| Sun., Nov. 30 | Matriarch (G1) | F-M, 3YO & Up | 1 mile (T) | 300,000 |