The Eddie Read Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the second half of July at the Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. ...
At the wire, it was Tourist by a half-length over Tepin, who was six for seven this year going into the race. Midnight Storm, the winner of the Grade 2 Del Mar Mile and Grade 2 Eddie Read, was third another 1-1/4 lengths back.
In $300,000 Grade I races for Thoroughbreds, Questing won the Coaching Club American Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at Saratoga in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and 6-year-old Acclamation led all the way in the Eddie Read at Del Mar, near San Diego.
turf. I just believe that shipping over thousands of miles 3 times from Ireland to America, and winning the G1 Man O' War Stakes, the G1 Arlington Million, and the G1 Joe Hirsch Turf trumps shipping across the state of California to win the G1 Charlie Whittingham, the G1 Eddie Read, and the 2 G2 wins.
Coming into the Classic, Acclamation won three straight turf stakes in California: the Jim Murray, Charles Whittingham Memorial and the Eddie Read. The five-year-old has 18 lifetime starts on the grass.