Mill Valley Stakes
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The Mill Valley Stakes is an American
Thoroughbred
horse race run each year at Golden Gate Fields
. An ungraded
stakes, it's open to three year olds, and up.
The race is named for a small town in Marin County across the San Francisco Bay
from the site of Golden Gate Fields. Mill Valley, once a mill sending lumber to build San Francisco, is now a bustling community of many thousands.
This race is not listed as running for the time being.
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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 each year at Golden Gate Fields
Golden Gate Fields
Golden Gate Fields is an American horse racing track straddling both Albany, California and Berkeley, California along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay adjacent to the Eastshore Freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area...
. An ungraded
Graded stakes race
A graded stakes race is a term applied since 1973 by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay...
stakes, it's open to three year olds, and up.
The race is named for a small town in Marin County across the San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean...
from the site of Golden Gate Fields. Mill Valley, once a mill sending lumber to build San Francisco, is now a bustling community of many thousands.
This race is not listed as running for the time being.