Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The San Marcos Stakes is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race held annually in late January at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia California. Open to horses aged four and older it is raced on turf over a distance of one and one-quarter miles.Inaugurated in 1952 as a one mile race on dirt in 1954 it was changed to one and one-quarter miles and became Santa Anita Park’s first graded stakes race on turf.