The Gran Premio Gilberto Lerena (previously known as the Premio Abril, Premio Old Man, Clásico Gilberto Lerena and Premio Gilberto Lerena) is a Group 1 horse race run at Hipódromo Argentino de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, open to fillies and mares three years old or older.
In 1914,[2] the race was renamed to the Gran Premio Gilberto Lerena in honor of Gilberto Justiniano Lerena Lenguas, a co-founder of the Argentine Stud Book who bred Argentinian Quadruple Crown winner Old Man and was associated with various famous and successful studs, including Stud Oriental, Stud Bend Or, Haras La Guardia, Haras El Moro, Haras Las Ortigas, and his own Haras El Viejo.
[2] The Gran Premio Gilberto Lerena has been run at a variety of distances, including: When the group race system was introduced in Argentina in the 1973/4 season, the Gran Premio Gilberto Lerena was a Group 3 race.
From 1988 to 1994, the Gran Premio Gilberto Lerena was run as a Group 2 race.
Prior to that, the race was won twice by La Ñatita (1915, 1917), Black Beauty (1923, dead heat in 1924), Palanca (1936, 1937), Et Bien!