The Santa Barbara Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.
A Listed event open to fillies and mares, age four and older, it is contested of turf over a distance of one and a half miles.
In 1952 and again in 1954 it was restricted to three-year-old California-foaled fillies and in 1953 for three-year-old California foals of either sex.
The race was known as the Santa Barbara Juvenile Championship in 1937 and then as the Santa Barbara Stakes in 1935 and 1936, 1938, 1941, 1946 and 1952 through 1954.
This race was downgraded to a Grade III for its 2014 running[1] and to a Listed event in 2023.