SEE California Derby

California Derby

The California Derby is a race for Thoroughbred horses held early in the year at Golden Gate Fields. An ungraded stakes, it's open to three-year-olds willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt...

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The Golden Gate Derby is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 horse race run early each year at Golden Gate Fields

Golden Gate Fields

Golden Gate Fields is an American horse racing track straddling both Albany, California and Berkeley, California along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay adjacent to the Eastshore Freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area...

 set at a distance of one and one sixteenth of a mile. The Derby is open to three-year-olds.

A Grade III

Graded stakes race

A graded stakes race is a term applied since 1973 by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay...

 event, it offers a purse of $150,000.

In its 95th running in 2010, the race is named for San Francisco's famed Golden Gate Bridge

Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1, the structure links the city of San Francisco, on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to...

 spanning the "Golden Gate" from Marin County to the city of San Francisco.

Winners of the Golden Gate Derby since 2001

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2005	Buzzards Bay Buzzards Bay (horse) Buzzards Bay is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by Jay Shaw, trainer, his sire was Marco Bay, a winner of the Tampa Bay Derby who earned over a quarter of a million dollars during his racing days. His dam was Life's Lass, whose sire was Seneca Jones, a son of U.S...	Mark Guidry Mark Guidry Mark Guidry is a retired American jockey.He began his riding career in Thoroughbred horse racing in his native Louisiana in 1974 where he remained until 1986 when he went to race in Illinois. He was the leading jockey at Hawthorne Race Course seven times, Sportsman's Park nine times, and two...	Jeff Mullins	Fog City Stable	1:43.69
2004	Skipaslew	Eric Saint-Martin	Doug O'Neill Douglas F. O'Neill Douglas F. "Doug" O'Neill is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.In 1986 he began working in Thoroughbred horse racing as a stable hand and eventually a training assistant...	Merv Griffin Merv Griffin Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. was an American television host, musician, actor, and media mogul. He began his career as a radio and big band singer who went on to appear in movies and on Broadway. From 1965 to 1986 Griffin hosted his own talk show, The Merv Griffin Show on Group W Broadcasting...	1:41.84
2003	Standard Setter	Roberto Gonzalez	Jeff Bonde	Philip Lebherz/Richard Meister	1:43.76
2002	Danthebluegrassman	Joseph Steiner	Bob Baffert Bob Baffert Robert A. "Bob" Baffert is an American horse owner and trainer, whose horses have won three Kentucky Derbies, five Preakness Stakes, one Belmont Stakes and two Kentucky Oaks. He graduated from the University of Arizona's with a Bachelor of Science degree. -Early career:Bob Baffert began his...	Michael E. Pegram	1:43.87
2001	Hoovergetthekeys	Ron Warren, Jr.	Brian Koriner	Carl Odegaard	1:42.88