Remington Springboard Mile Stakes

Remington Springboard Mile
Listed race
LocationRemington Park
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewww.remingtonpark.com
Race information
Distance1 mile
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationTwo year old
WeightColts and geldings: 121 lb (54.9 kg)
Fillies 118 lb (53.5 kg)
Purse$400,000 (2021)
BonusesAutomatic nomination to Oklahoma Derby

The Remington Springboard Mile is a Listed American Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds over a distance of one mile on the dirt run annually in December at Remington Park located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After peaking in 2019 with a purse of $400,000, the purse was reduced to $200,000 in 2020.[1][2] As of 2021, the purse was increased back to $400,000.[3]

Prior to 2009, the race was known as the Remington MEC Mile Stakes. [4] Formerly run on the last day of the racing calendar in December at Remington Park, it has since been moved to the Friday night going into the final weekend.

The event was added in 2017 as a qualification race for the Kentucky Derby[5] and stake money had been increasing in the last few years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

  1. ^ "Remington Springboard Mile Stakes". Remington Park. 2019-11-20. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
  2. ^ "Remington Park Cuts Stakes Purses Due to COVID-19". Blood-Horse. 2020-07-29. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  3. ^ "2021 Springboard Mile Chart". Equibase. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Mucho Gusto one to beat in deep renewal of the Oklahoma". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 2019-09-27. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  5. ^ Privman, Jay (31 August 2017). "European series among changes to Derby points system". Daily Racing Form. Retrieved 8 December 2017.