Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The Santa Monica Stakes is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late January/early February at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia California. Opern to fillies and mares age four and older it is contested on Pro-Ride synthetic dirt over a distance of seven furlongs.Inaugurated in 1957 through 1959 it was open to horses three-year-olds and up of either sex. The race was run in two divisions in 1961 and 1965.