Gran Premio Criadores

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Gran Premio Criadores is a Group 1 horse race for fillies and mares aged three and up, held at Hipódromo Argentino de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is run over 2000 meters on dirt. The 2025 purse is 57,510,000 ARS, with the winner receiving 27,000,000 ARS. The race is part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series, giving the winner an automatic berth in the Breeders' Cup Distaff. Inaugurated in 1884, the event was not run from 1935 to 1949 and has been held at various distances over the years. It is typically run on May 1, alongside other Group 1 races such as the Gran Premio Jorge de Atucha, Gran Premio Montevideo, Gran Premio Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Gran Premio de Las Américas, and Gran Premio República Argentina. Since 1988, no horse has won the race more than once (before that, Pitanga won in 1897 and 1898, and Japónica won in 1925 and 1926). There was a dead heat in 2009 between Cayaya and Ollagua.