Sham Stakes

The Sham Stakes is held annually at Santa Anita Park. This year, it will be conducted at 1 1/8 miles on the recently installed Cushion Track. An official prep race for the Kentucky Derby, the Grade III event is run in early March and offers a purse of $200,000.

Inaugurated in 2001, the Sham Stakes is named for the racehorse Sham, winner of the 1973 Santa Anita Derby and infamous for his battles with the great Secretariat in that year's Triple Crown.