Dixie Stakes
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The Dixie Stakes, frequently referred to as the Dixie Handicap, is the eighth oldest graded stakes race in the United States and still run annually at Pimlico Race Course. First run as the "Dinner Party Stakes" when Pimlico Race Course opened in 1870, it was named for the dinner party where Governor Oden Bowie and others met resulting in the building of the Pimlico race course for Thoroughbred race horses.
The inaugural event was won by Preakness for whom the Preakness Stakes would be named.
Currently a Grade II stakes race with a purse of $250,000, at one time the Dixie was a very important race that drew the top horses from across North America.
The race is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the turf.
[edit] Selected past winners
- 2006 : Better Talk Now
- 2005 : Cool Conductor
- 2004 : Mr O'Brien
- 2003 : Dr. Brendler
- 2002 : Strut The Stage
- 2001 : Hap
- 2000 : Quiet Resolve
- 1999 : Middlesex Drive
- 1998 : Yagli
- 1997 : Ops Smile
- 1994 : Paradise Creek
- 1993 : Lure
- 1991 : Sky Classic
- 1988 : Kadial
- 1955 : St. Vincent
- 1947 : Assault
- 1946 : Armed
- 1942 : Whirlaway
- 1938 : Pompoon
- 1935 : Only One
- 1934 : Equipose
- 1932 : Stepenfetchit
- 1927 : Mars
- 1926 : Sarazen
- 1925 : Sarazen
- 1915 : The Finn
- 1870 : Preakness
