The Florida Oaks

Grade III $200,000 Fillies 3-Year-Olds 1 1/16-Mile (Turf)

Fastest Time: 1:43.65 (MAIN TRACK)

1:41.12 (TURF)

1:41.12 (TURF)

Slowest Time: 1:48.00 (MAIN TRACK)

1:45.56 (TURF)

Longest Priced Winner: $169.20

Shortest Priced Winner: $ 2.60

DON’T FORGET GIL

DOMAIN EXPERTISE

MISSION OF JOY

(2009) (2021) (2023)

DYNAMIC HOLIDAY (1985) (2011)

ERSTWHILE

SHE’S SCRUMPTIOUS (1989)

EBONY BREEZE (2003)

Closest Winning Margin: Nose MINDY GAYLE

DIXIE STRIKE

DOMAIN EXPERTISE

(1996) (2012) (2021)

Largest Winning Margin: 9 Lengths R LADY JOY (2005)

Shortest Priced Loser: $ .30

PLUM COUNTRY

STRATEGIC MANEUVER (1996) (1994)

Track Condition: Firm Good All turf runnings except 2011 and 2022

Richest Purse: $200,000 $200,000 (2014-Present)

Other Notes: Both of the race’s co-record holders, 2021 winner Domain Expertise and 2023 winner Mission of Joy, were ridden by Antonio Gallardo. Both horses were sired by Kitten’s Joy. For the second time, trainer Chad Brown won the Florida Oaks with a French-bred filly, Dolce Zel. He accomplished the feat in 2014 with Testa Rossi. Outburst lived up to her favorite's status in 2020, posting a gate-to-wire victory under Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano. Trainer George R. “Rusty” Arnold, II, captured his second Florida Oaks victory with Concrete Rose, 15 years after winning the race with Ender’s Sister. Jockey Julien Leparoux won the race for the second year in a row and third time in four years. Concrete Rose subsequently became a Grade I winner. Andina Del Sur prevailed in a three-horse photo finish in 2018, giving jockey Julien Leparoux his second Florida Oaks victory in three years. Fifty Five’s winning time of 1:41.60 in 2017 was the fastest since the 1 1/16-mile Florida Oaks was moved to the turf course in 2011. Both the 2016 Florida Oaks winner and the runner-up, Baciami Piccola and Enjoy Yourself, were bred in Great Britain. Jockey Jose Lezcano won three of four editions of the Florida Oaks from 2012-2015 and has won four overall, the most of any jockey. The triumph by Quality Rocks in 2015 was the third in the race for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, tied with Chad Brown and Neil J. Howard for the most by any conditioner. Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day won the race three times. In 1996, the Florida Oaks attained Grade III status; it lost graded status twice in ensuing years but was graded for the 2013 edition. It was contested on the turf for the first time in 2011. Jockey Jorge Guerra won the Tampa Bay Derby and the Florida Oaks on the same day in 1996, a first-time accomplishment for any rider. Pat Day won both races in 1998; Richard Migliore won both in 2001; and Ramon Dominguez won both in 2002. Fifteen years later, Jose Oritz accomplished the feat with Fifty Five and Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby winner Tapwrit. Trainer Glenn Wismer has won the race twice, in 1989 and 1992. Secret Status, the 2000 winner, went on to win the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. The 2003 Florida Oaks winner, Ebony Breeze, developed into a multiple-graded stakes winner and millionaire for George Steinbrenner’s Kinsman Stable.