The Shared Belief Stakes (formerly the El Cajon Stakes) is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the last week of August or the first week of September at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. Open to three-year-old horses, the non-graded stakes is contested at a distance of one mile (8 furlongs) on the dirt. The purse is currently $100,000.[1]
Inaugurated in 1973, the race was run as a restricted overnight stakes until 2004. The distance was set at one and one eight miles in 1973 and 1974, then reduced to a mile and a sixteenth from 1975 through 1996 after which it was set at its current distance of one mile. From 2008 to 2015, the race was run on Polytrack synthetic dirt surface – all other renewals have been on a natural dirt surface.
1978 - Go West Young Man (Multiple Grade I winner)
1977 - Kulak
1976 - Wood Green
1975 - Crumbs
1974 - Within Hail
1973 - Quick Bluff
References
^ ab"Del Mar Media Guide". dmtc.com. p. 59. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
^"Jim Rome Remembers Shared Belief". bloodhorse.com. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
Nomination form for the Shared Belief, with entry requirements
March 03, 2023
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