The Rebel Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses held over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles run on dirt each February at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The race was first run on March 18, 1961, as the Rebel Handicap over a distance of one mile and seventy yards.
[1] The victory was Bass Clef's fifth in a row, a run that included the Louisiana Derby.
Later in the spring, Bass Clef would finish third to Carry Back in the Kentucky Derby.
In 2019, the event was split into two divisions after Oaklawn president Louis Cella presented a sporting gesture after the San Felipe Stakes was abandoned in California.