The Santa Monica Stakes is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late January/early February at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.
Open to fillies and mares age four and older, it is run on the dirt over a distance of seven furlongs.
Until 2010, the race name was the Santa Monica Handicap.
[2] Inaugurated in 1957, through 1959 it was open to horses three-year-olds and up of either sex.
The race was run in two divisions in 1961 and 1965.