The Clement L. Hirsch Stakes is a Grade I American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares age three years and older over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt track, scheduled annually in late July or early August at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California.
The event was inaugurated as the Chula Vista Handicap on July 17, 1937, as a five and one-half furlong race for two-year-olds bred in California and was won by High Strike owned by singer Bing Crosby.
[4] A Newport Beach, California businessman, Hirsch was responsible for the creation of the Oak Tree Racing Association.
Starting in 1984 with the winner Princess Rooney who later that year would win the Breeders' Cup Distaff and be crowned US Champion Older Dirt Female Horse.
The 1990 winner, the Argentine bred mare Bayakoa would rectify her unplaced finish from 1989[2] and would also win the Breeders' Cup Distaff for the second time and retain her position as US Champion Older Dirt Female Horse.