Pan Zareta Stakes

Pan Zareta Stakes
Non-graded stakes race
Location Fair Grounds Race Course
New Orleans, Louisiana Louisiana
Inaugurated 1966
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website fairgroundsracecourse.com
Race information
Distance 6 furlongs
Surface Dirt
Track left-handed
Qualification Fillies & Mares, four years old & up
Purse $60,000

The Pan Zareta Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana, each winter. An ungraded stakes, the Pan Zareta is a 6 furlong sprint on dirt open to fillies and mares four years old and up. The race currently offers a $60,000 purse.[1]

First run in 1966, the race is named in honor of the Hall of Fame racing mare, Pan Zareta who is buried in the infield of the Fair Grounds alongside another horse, Black Gold. Both of these horses died at the track, Black Gold while racing, and Pan Zareta in her stall on Christmas Day.

Past winners

Winners since the beginning of the new century are:

Going Back

References

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