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Spectacular Bid Stakes

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Spectacular Bid Stakes
Non-graded stakes race
LocationGulfstream Park
Hallandale Beach, Florida, United States
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewww.gulfstreampark.com
Race information
Distance6 furlong sprint
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds
WeightAssigned
Purse$75,000

The Spectacular Bid Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the beginning of January at Gulfstream Park race track in Hallandale Beach, Florida. An ungraded stakes race for three-year-old horses and once contested at a distance of six furlongs on dirt, as of 2016 it is now run at 6+12 furlongs and currently offers a purse of $75,000.

With the demise of Calder Race Course's Grade III Tropical Park Derby, the Spectacular Bid, named for the great Spectacular Bid, is the first stakes race of the three-year-old Florida campaign for many Kentucky Derby hopefuls, and was run on Gulfstream Park's winter season opening day. It has since been moved to March.

In 2011, Gulfstream's opening day was moved to early December creating two runnings of this race in one year, the first in January 2011 and the second in December 2011.

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