The San Francisco Mile Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

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 run annually during the third week of April 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...

 in Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

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. A Grade II

Graded stakes race

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 event open to horses age four and older, it is contested on turf

Grass

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 over a disatance of one mile (8 furlong

Furlong

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Golden Gate Fields dropped the San Francisco Mile Stakes from its stakes schedule for the 2008 spring meeting due to a conflict of racing schedules.

Records

Speed record:

• 1 mile - 1:33.40 - Don Alberto (1980)

Most wins by a jockey

Jockey

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• 2 - Kent Desormeaux
  Kent Desormeaux
  Kent Jason Desormeaux is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who holds the U.S. record for most races won in a single year, 1989.-Brief biography:...
  
    (1993 & 2000)
• 2 - Brice Blanc
  Brice Blanc
  Brice Blanc is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Blanc attended a jockey's apprentice school in his native France then, encouraged by trainer Ben Cecil, in October 1993 emigrated to the United States where he settled in Southern California and began racing at area tracks...
  
    (1997 & 1999)

Most wins by a trainer

Horse trainer

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• 3 - Julio C. Canani  (1999, 2000 & 2006)

Winners of the San Francisco Mile Stakes since 1987

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Distance (Miles)	Time	Grade
2011	Our Nautique	6	Keven Krigger	Jerry Hollendorfer Jerry Hollendorfer Jerry Hollendorfer is an American Thoroughbred racehorse owner and trainer. He has the most wins in the history of Northern California race horse trainers....	Hollendorfer/Tunnicliffe	1 mile	1:35.70	IIIT
2010	Bold Chieftain	7	Russell Baze Russell Baze Russell Avery Baze is a horse racing jockey. He holds the record for the most race wins in North American horse racing history, and is a member of the United States Racing Hall of Fame....	William J. Morey Jr.	W. J. Morey, Jr., et al.	1 mile	1:35.21	II
2009	Mr. Napper Tandy	5	Julio A. Garcia	Jack Carava	La Canada Stables	1 mile	1:36.07	II
2008	No Race	-	No Race	No Race	No Race	no race	no race	-
2007	Chinese Dragon	5	Mike E. Smith	Robert B. Hess, Jr.	Michael Carter et al	1 mile	1:35.81	III
2006	Charmo	5	Martin Pedroza Martin A. Pedroza Martin A. Pedroza is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Pedroza trained at the Panama jockey school and in 1981 rode his first winner at Hipódromo Presidente Remón in Panama City...	Julio C. Canani	David S. Milch	1 mile	1:34.28	III
2005	Castledale	4	Rene Douglas	Jeff Mullins Jeff Mullins (racehorse trainer) Jeff Mullins is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.-References:* * * *...	Frank Lyons & Greg Knee	1 mile	1:37.40	III
2004	Singletary	4	Jose Valdivia, Jr. Jose Valdivia, Jr. Jose Valdivia, Jr. is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. The son of a top South American jockey, he is the nephew of retired jockey Fernando Toro and trainer, Juan Suarez. He and his family moved to the United States in 1989 and settled in the West Palm Beach, Florida area where his...	Don Chatlos, Jr.	Little Red Feather Racing	1 mile	1:35.16	III
2003	Ninebanks	5	Ron Warren, Jr.	Jerry Hollendorfer Jerry Hollendorfer Jerry Hollendorfer is an American Thoroughbred racehorse owner and trainer. He has the most wins in the history of Northern California race horse trainers....	Peter Abruzzo	1 mile	1:37.20	III
2002	Suances	5	David Flores	Darrell Vienna	Jed Cohen	1 mile	1:35.19	III
2001	Redattore	6	Jason Lumpkins	Richard E. Mandella	Luis Alfredo Taunay	1 mile	1:35.14	III
2000	Ladies Din	5	Kent Desormeaux Kent Desormeaux Kent Jason Desormeaux is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who holds the U.S. record for most races won in a single year, 1989.-Brief biography:...	Julio C. Canani	J. Terrance Lanni	1 mile	1:35.04	III
1999	Tuzla	5	Brice Blanc Brice Blanc Brice Blanc is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Blanc attended a jockey's apprentice school in his native France then, encouraged by trainer Ben Cecil, in October 1993 emigrated to the United States where he settled in Southern California and began racing at area tracks...	Julio C. Canani	David S. Milch	1 mile	1:35.46	III
1998	Hawksley Hill	5	Mike E. Smith	Neil D. Drysdale	David & Jill Heerensperger	1 mile	1:34.20	III
1997	Wavy Run	6	Brice Blanc Brice Blanc Brice Blanc is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Blanc attended a jockey's apprentice school in his native France then, encouraged by trainer Ben Cecil, in October 1993 emigrated to the United States where he settled in Southern California and began racing at area tracks...	Darrell Vienna	Red Baron's Barn	1 mile	1:37.11	III
1996	Gold and Steel	4	Alex Solis Alex Solis Alex O. Solis is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California...	Ben Cecil	Gary A. Tanaka	1 mile	1:35.07	III
1995	Unfinished Symph	4	Chris Antley Chris Antley Christopher Wiley Antley was a champion American jockey.He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida but grew up in Elloree, South Carolina. He left school at sixteen to ride horses professionally at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. His first win was on a horse named Vaya Con Dinero...	Wesley A. Ward Wesley A. Ward Wesley A. Ward is a retired American Champion jockey and a current trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing...	N. Rice, T. Hatcher, J. Johnston	1 mile	1:34.14	III
1994	Gothland	5	Corey Nakatani Corey Nakatani Corey S. Nakatani is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He got his big break in 1990 when he rode Itsallgreektome to win big stakes races.Nakatani currently resides at Belmont Park...	Wallace Dollase Wallace Dollase Wallace A. "Wally" Dollase is an American trainer and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses.Among his numerous Graded stakes race wins, Dollase won the 1996 Breeders' Cup Distaff with Jewel Princess who was voted that year's Eclipse Award as the American Champion Older Female Horse.Wally Dollase and...	Horizon Table	1 mile	1:35.46	III
1993	Norwich	6	Kent Desormeaux Kent Desormeaux Kent Jason Desormeaux is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who holds the U.S. record for most races won in a single year, 1989.-Brief biography:...	Gary F. Jones Gary F. Jones Gary F. Jones is a retired trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses whose career began in 1974 and ended with his retirement at the end of July, 1996 having earned $52,672,611 in purses and the winner of 1,465 races including 102 graded stakes.Among the outstanding horses trained by Gary Jones were Hall...	Sheikh Mohammed Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum , also Sheikh Mohammed, , is the Prime Minister and Vice President of the United Arab Emirates , and absolute monarch of Dubai.-Personal life and education:...	1 mile	1:35.57	III
1992	Tight Spot	5	Laffit Pincay, Jr. Laffit Pincay, Jr. Laffit Alejandro Pincay, Jr. is a flat racing's all-time winningest jockey. He competed primarily in the United States.-Career:...	Ron McAnally Ron McAnally Ronald L. McAnally is an American Hall of Fame trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. Called "one of the most honored and respected of North American trainers" by Thoroughbred Times Co., Inc, as a child, he and his four siblings were placed in an orphanage following the death of their mother...	Verne Winchell Verne Winchell Vernon Hedges "Verne" Winchell was the founder of Winchell's Donuts.On October 8, 1948 he opened his first donut shop in Temple City, California and earned the nickname "The Donut King" while making a fortune with a chain of Winchell's-branded donut shops in the western United States during the...	1 mile	1:35.57	III
1991	Forty Niner Days	4	Tim Doocy	Roger Stein	Sidney Field	1 mile	1:38.80	III
1990	Colway Rally	6	Corey Black Corey Black Corey A. Black is a retired Champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Born in Westminster, California, Black won his first race as a professional apprentice jockey on October 16, 1985, during the Oak Tree Racing Association meet at Santa Anita Park...			1 mile	1:35.80	III
1989	Patchy Groundfog	6	F. Olivares			1 mile	1:38.20	III
1988	Ifrad	6	T. M. Chapman			1 mile	1:36.40	III
1987	Dormello	6	A. L. Diaz			1 mile	1:36.20	III