Sham Stakes

Note: Date, Track and Qualifying Points are based on the Road to the 2021 Kentucky Derby schedule

When:  January 2, 2021

Where:  Santa Anita Park (Arcadia, CA)

Purse: $100,500

Race Distance: 1 mile

History:  Named for Sham, the winner of the 1973 Santa Anita Derby who famously butted heads with Secretariat throughout the Triple Crown series of that year, the race was inaugurated in 2001 and is run at a distance of one mile in early January. The Sham is one of the country’s newest Kentucky Derby prep races, however it has also been quite productive in its brief existence. In 2005, Giacomo finished third in the Sham before upsetting the Derby at odds of 50-1. In more recent years, the race has produced two Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winners, Tapizar, who won the Sham in 2011, and Goldencents, who prevailed in 2013.

Qualifying points:  10-4-2-1

Past winners:

2020 - Authentic
2019 - Gunmetal Gray
2018 - McKinzie
2017 - Gormley
2016 - Collected
2015 - Calculator
2014 - Midnight Hawk
2013 - Goldencents
2012 - Out of Bounds
2011 - Tapizar
2010 - Alphie's Bet
2009 - The Pamplemousse
2008 - Colonel John
2007 - Ravel
2006 - Bob and John
2005 - Going Wild
2004 - Master David
2003 - Man Among Men
2002 - USS Tinosa
2001 - Wild and Wise

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