D. Wayne Lukas, Left (MJC) Christophe Clement, Right (Sonny Hughes)
The Santa Monica is renamed D. Wayne Lukas and De la Prevoyante must be renamed Christophe Clement to honor their memories with Graded Stakes Races in Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita Park
1/ST release
Arcadia, California – The legacy of two of the top trainers of the last few decades will be honored by 1/st with the announcement of Graded Stakes races that are renamed in their memories. Starting with the 2026 Runnings, the Santa II Santa Monica Stakes of Santa Anita Park will be known as the D. Wayne Lukas Stakes and Gulfstream Park’s Grade III La Prevoyante Stakes will be renamed the Christophe Clement Stakes. Both Stakes races were crucial for the two trainers when they started their now legendary careers.
“D. Wayne Lukas and Christophe Clement were not only generation provision, they were from top -class people,” said Aidan Butler, president of 1/ST, when making the announcement. “Santa Anita and Gulfstream were blessed for many years to be their houses. It is an honor to greet them for years on our tracks by renaming races that helped launch their success stories.”
Lukas saddled Flack Flack to win the Santa Monica from 1980 and then ran as a handicap. It was the first class II race of the trainer in Santa Anita Park and only his ninth Graded Stakes win since the switch to full -blooded quarter horses. Lukas would add five more Santa Monica’s to his extensive CV with Parsley (1980), Bara Lass (1984), Pine Tree Lane (1987 and 1988) and the Hall of Fame Filly Serena’s Song (1996). Only trainer Bob Baffert’s Seven Wins Bests Lukas’ record in the Zeven-Furlong race, which has been disputed since 1957. Lukas, who started his successful career in Santa Anita Park in the 1970s-1990, died on 28 Juneoneless than three months before his 90one birthday.
De la Prevoyante from 1992 provided Christophe Clement with only the second assessed commitment to his young career when the Irish-bred Sardaniya for his Highness De Aga Khan, less than a month after his first Grad victory in Gulfstream Park. It was a suitable victory for the world -traveling Frenchman, who is apprenticed in both the United States and England, because the La Prevoyante was named after a Canadian Merrieveeulen owned by a French Canadian. Currently run in Gulfstream more than 1 ½ miles on the grass for mares and mares, the 1992 running in Calder was the first of Clement’s six victories in the race, followed by Tampoli (1994), Caretta (1998 and 1999), Irish Mission (2014) and Beautiful Lover (2022). Clement died on May 24one At the age of 59.
The complete deployment schedules for the 2025-26 Santa Anita Park Classic Meet and the Gulfstream Park Championship Meet will be released later this year.
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