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WinStar Derby

Sunland Derby
Grade III race
Location Sunland Park Racetrack
Sunland Park, New Mexico, United States
Inaugurated 2003
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.sunland-park.com/winstar.htm
Race information
Distance 1 18 miles (9 furlongs)
Surface Dirt
Track left-handed
Qualification Three-year-olds
Weight Fillies: 117 lbs.
Colts & Geldings: 122 lbs
Purse $800,000 (2017)

The Sunland Derby is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Sunland Park Racetrack in Sunland Park, New Mexico. Inaugurated in 2003, the race is open to three-year-olds willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt and is sponsored by WinStar Farm of Versailles, Kentucky. Held in March, the Sunland Derby currently offers a purse of $800,000.

In its 11th year in 2013, it received Grade III status from the American Graded Stakes Committee for the first time in 2010. It is listed as an official Kentucky Derby prep race.

The 2016 running of the Sunland Derby was cancelled due to an outbreak of Equine herpesvirus 1.

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