The Florida Oaks is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies over the distance of 1+1⁄16 miles on the turf scheduled annually in mid-March at Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar, Florida.
[1] The race was inaugurated on 10 March 1984, at a distance of seven furlongs on the dirt and was won by Sure Too Explode who was ridden by the Tampa Bay Downs track leading jockey Rick Luhr in a time of 1:242⁄5.
[4] In 2011 Tampa Bay Downs officials decided to switch the race to the turf.
[5] The AGSC restored the Grade III designation for the 2013 edition.
§ Ran as an entry Tampa Bay Downs Media Guide 2021[permanent dead link]