Topic: Frank E. Kilroe Mile
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She was awesome. I gave her one spank and she took off
UPI Thoroughbred Racing Roundup Mar 05, 2007
We didn't race him hard last year after this race. Mr. Stronach (owner Frank) told me to take it easy and have him ready for the end of the year. We took it easy with him and he didn't have a hard year last year
UPI Thoroughbred Racing Roundup Mar 03, 2003
The Frank E. Kilroe Mile Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run in early March at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Open to horses four years of age and older, it is raced over a distance of one mile (1.6 km). The Grade I race currently offers a purse of $300,000.
Inaugurated in 1960 as the Arcadia Handicap, it was raced at a distance of 1¼ miles until 1987. In 1972, the distance at which it was raced was "about" 1¼ miles. In 1975, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1995, the race was run on dirt.
The race was open to three-year-olds and up in 1962.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Frank E. Kilroe Mile."