California Oaks

The California Oaks is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in February at Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley, California. Open to three-year-old fillies, it is contested on Tapeta Footings synthetic dirt over a distance of a mile and a sixteenth (8.5 furlongs).

The event is an ungraded stakes race with a current purse of $75,000 and has been a prep race to the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, including the Kentucky Oaks, the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes and Mother Goose Stakes.

Records
Speed record: 
 * $1 1/16$ miles - 1:39.04 - Sky Mystic (2008)

Most wins by a jockey:
 * 4 - Russell Baze  (2009, 2011, 2012, 2014)

Most wins by a trainer:
 * 4 - Doug O'Neill (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)