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The Apple Blossom Handicap is a Grade I American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares that are four years old or older, run under handicap conditions over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt track held annually in April at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The 2024 running carried a purse of $1,250,000.
The race was inaugurated in 1992 [1] and named in honor of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Bayakoa [2] who had won the 1989 Grade I Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park. In 1993 event was run over a longer distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles and in 1995 the event was not held. [1] The event was upgraded to a Grade III event in 2015. [3]
Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort, [1] formerly Oaklawn Park Race Track, is an American thoroughbred racetrack and casino in Hot Springs, Arkansas.It is the home to "The Racing Festival of the South", a four-day series of races that concludes with the Arkansas Derby.
Bayakoa was then shipped to Oaklawn Park in Arkansas for the Grade I Apple Blossom Handicap on April 19. She raced wide for much of the race but still won by four lengths over Goodbye Halo. Returning to California, she won the Hawthorne Handicap on May 20 by 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 lengths, then the Milady Handicap on June 17 by 1 length.
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