Oak Tree Derby
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The Oak Tree Derby is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Santa Anita Park during the Oak Tree Racing Association meet each year. The Grade IIT event is open to three-year-old horses willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the turf and offers a purse of $150,000.
Inaugurated in 1969 as the Volante Handicap, in 1997 it was renamed the Oak Tree Derby.
It will be run on the undercard of the Saturday Breeders' Cup card in 2008.
[edit] Selected past winners
- 2007 - Daytona (IRE) (Mike Smith)
- 2006 - Dark Islander (IRE) (Jose Valdivia Jr.)
