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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 $50000 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.