Bayakoa Stakes (Oaklawn Park)

The Bayakoa Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares that are four years old or older, over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt track held annually in February at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

The event currently carries a purse of $250,000.

The race was inaugurated in 1992[1] and named in honor of U.S.

Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Bayakoa[2] who had won the 1989 Grade I Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park.

[3] Speed record: Margins: