Southwest Stakes

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

When:  February 15, 2021

Where:  Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, AR)

Purse: $750,000

Race Distance: 1 1/16 mile

History:  The Southwest was first run in 1968 and started off as a sprint race called the Southwest Handicap. It wasn’t until the mid-1980’s that the race was stretched out to two turns and began to take shape as a potential Derby prep. The Southwest enjoyed a particularly good year in 1992, when second and third-place finishers, Pine Bluff and Lil E. Tee, won the Preakness Stakes and Kentucky Derby, respectively. Since that seminal moment in the race’s history it has become an important and lucrative prep race that serves as a stepping stone to the Rebel and Arkansas Derby. Other notable winners include Smarty Jones, who won the Derby and Preakness in 2004 before falling just short in the Belmont, as well as eventual champions Smoke Glacken (1997) and Lawyer Ron (2006).

Qualifying Points:  10-4-2-1

Past Winners (since 2000):

2020 - Silver Prospector
2019 - Super Steed
2018 - My Boy Jack
2017 - One Liner
2016 - Suddenbreakingnews
2015 - Far Right
2014 - Tapiture
2013 - Super Ninety Nine
2012 - Secret Circle*
2012 - Castaway*
2011 - Archarcharch
2010 - Conveyance
2009 - Old Fashioned
2008 - Denis of Cork
2007 - Teuflesberg
2006 - Lawyer Ron
2005 - Greater Good
2004 - Smarty Jones
2003 - Great Notion
2002 - Private Emblem*
2002 - Paloma Parilla*
2001 - Son of Rocket
2000 - Afternoon Affair

*denotes the race was run over two divisions

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