Gran Premio Polla de Potrillos (Argentina)

Gran Premio Polla de Potrillos
Group 1 race
Inaugurated1895 (1895)
Race typeFlat / Thoroughbred
Race information
Distance1600 meters (1 mi)
SurfaceDirt
TrackHipódromo Argentino de Palermo
QualificationThree-Year-Old colts
Weight56 kg
PursePs 5,100,000

The Gran Premio Polla de Potrillos is a Group 1 flat horse race in Argentina open to three-year-old colts run over a distance of 1,600 metres (0.99 mi) at Hipódromo Argentino de Palermo.[1] It is the first race in the Argentinian Triple Crown,[2] and equivalent to the English 2000 Guineas Stakes.[3] It is considered one of the principle races in defining the champion three-year-old colt,[4] and generally occurs in September, near the beginning of a horse's three-year-old season.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Grandes Clásicos y Eventos Hípicos". Hipódromo de Palermo. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  2. ^ IFHA 2021 Blue Book
  3. ^ Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne (1939). Introduction to Argentina. New York: The Greystone Press. p. 123.
  4. ^ Magneto, Ernesto (13 September 2012). "HIPÓDROMO ARGENITNO DE PALERMO – Gran Premio Polla de Potrillos una jornada de definiciones". Palermo Online Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  5. ^ "Premio Polla de Potrillos: Una tradición de 120 años". Haras Santa Elena (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  6. ^ "Gran Premio Polla de Potrillos - Hípica Argentina". Top Argentino (in Spanish). 10 October 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2022.