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The Arkansas Derby is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held annually in April at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs Arkansas. It is currently a Grade I race run over a distance of 9 furlongs on dirt.In 2004 Oaklawn Park offered a $5 million bonus to any horse that could sweep its three-year-old graded stakes the Rebel Stakes and the Arkansas Derby and then take the Kentucky Derby.