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The Indiana Oaks is a Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

horse race run annually in the early fall at Hoosier Park

Hoosier Park

Hoosier Park is a thoroughbred and standardbred racetrack located in Anderson, Indiana, United States.In 2009, the Horseplayers Association of North America introduced a rating system for 65 Thoroughbred racetracks in North America. Of the top Ten, Hoosier Park was ranked #4.-History:In 1990,...

in Anderson, Indiana

Anderson, Indiana

Anderson is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is the principal city of the Anderson, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses Madison county. Anderson is the headquarters of the Church of God and home of Anderson University, which is...

. Open to three-year-old fillies

Filly

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, the Grade II

Graded stakes race

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event is set at a distance of a mile and one sixteenth on dirt. The race offers a purse of $200,000 added.

The Indian Oaks was first run in 1995, the year Hoosier Park opened.

Records

Speed record:

1-1/16 miles - 1:42.40 - Humble Clerk (2000)
1-mile- 1:37.00 - Princess Eloise (1996) & Niner's Home (1995)

Most wins by a jockey
Jockey
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3 - Robby Albarado
Robby Albarado
Robby J. Albarado is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding at the age of 12 at bush tracks in his native Louisiana and after turning professional, earned his first win at Evangeline Downs in 1990...

(2001, 2003 & 2005)

Most wins by a trainer
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Winners of the Indiana Oaks since 1995

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Distance (Miles)	Time	Grade
2011	Juanita	3	Julien Leparoux Julien Leparoux Julien R. Leparoux is a Champion jockey currently racing in the United States.Leparoux, grew up in a racing family, the son of a jockey turned assistant trainer. He worked at the Chantilly Racecourse as a stable hand and in January 2003 emigrated to California to work as an exercise rider for...	Michael J. Maker Michael J. Maker Michael J. Maker is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. The son of a trainer, he learned the business from his father then set up his own public stable in 1991. In 1993 he went to work as an assistant to U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer D...	William & Graydon Patterson	1-1/16	1:45.20	II
2010	Always A Princess	3	Martin Garcia Martin Garcia (jockey) Martin Garcia is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing who rides from a base in Southern California.He emigrated to the United States in 2003 and went to work at a delicatessen in Pleasanton, California...	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...	Arnold Zetcher LLC	1-1/16	1:43.60	II
2009	No Race	-	No Race	No Race	No Race	no race	no race	II
2008	Skylighter	3	Eddie Castro Eddie Castro Eddie Castro is a Panamanian-born jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He grew up on a produce farm in Panama where he learned to ride saddle horses. Influenced by the accomplishments of other local jockeys, Castro attended the Panamanian jockey school and began riding in races in...	Robert J. Frankel	Stonerside Stable, LLC	1-1/16	1:44.80	II
2007	Tessa Blue	3	Mike E. Smith			1-1/16	1:44.42	III
2006	Baghdaria	3	Rafael Bejarano			1-1/16	1:43.64	III
2005	Flying Glitter	3	Robby Albarado Robby Albarado Robby J. Albarado is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding at the age of 12 at bush tracks in his native Louisiana and after turning professional, earned his first win at Evangeline Downs in 1990...			1-1/16	1:44.10	III
2004	Daydreaming	3	John R. Velazquez			1-1/16	1:43.65	III
2003	Awesome Humor	3	Robby Albarado Robby Albarado Robby J. Albarado is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding at the age of 12 at bush tracks in his native Louisiana and after turning professional, earned his first win at Evangeline Downs in 1990...			1-1/16	1:45.75	III
2002	Bare Necessities	3	Jose Valdivia			1-1/16	1:45.83	III
2001	Scoop	3	Robby Albarado Robby Albarado Robby J. Albarado is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding at the age of 12 at bush tracks in his native Louisiana and after turning professional, earned his first win at Evangeline Downs in 1990...			1-1/16	1:44.06	III
2000	Humble Clerk	3	Larry Melancon Larry Melancon Larry J. Melancon is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who rides primarily on the Kentucky-Arkansas circuit....			1-1/16	1:42.40
1999	Brushed Halory	3	Eddie Martin, Jr.			1-1/16	1:44.64
1998	French Braids	3	Willie Martinez Willie Martinez (jockey) Willie Martinez is a jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing.Martinez was born in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, but emigrated to the United States in 1988 to work as a hotwalker and groom for his sister's godfather at Finger Lakes Race Track in Farmington, New York...			1-1/16	1:43.11
1997	Cotton Carnival	3	Eddie Martin, Jr.			1-1/16	1:43.30
1996	Princess Eloise	3	S. T. Saito			1 mile	1:37.00
1995	Niner's Home	3	T. J. Hebert			1 mile	1:37.00

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