Del Mar Debutante Stakes

Del Mar Debutante Stakes
Grade I race
LocationDel Mar Racetrack
Del Mar, California, United States
Inaugurated1951
Race typeThoroughbredFlat racing
Websitewww.dmtc.com
Race information
Distance7 furlongs
Surfacedirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationTwo-year-old fillies
WeightScale
Purse$300,000 (since 2012)[1]

The Del Mar Debutante Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race for two-year-old fillies run each year in early September at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. A Grade I event since 1999, the Debutante is raced on dirt at a distance of seven furlongs and currently offers a purse of $300,000.[1]

Inaugurated in 1951 at a distance of six furlongs, in 1974 the race was changed to a one-mile event then in 1993 to its current seven furlongs. From 2007 to 2014, it was run on a Polytrack all weather surface.

The Del Mar Debutante Stakes was raced in two divisions in 1984.

  1. ^ a b "Race Profile – Statistics". Equibase. Retrieved 4 September 2016.