Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes
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The Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes is a Grade I race for thoroughbred fillies and mares on the turf run on Belmont Park's turf course. For ages three and up, it's raced at a distance of one and a quarter miles and offers a purse of $600,000.
The Flower Bowl (named for the dam of Bowl Of Flowers, champion filly at age two and three) is a major prep race to the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.
[edit] Past winners
The winners of the Flower Bowl are:
- 2006 - Honey Ryder (John Velazquez)
- 2005 - Riskaverse (Jose Santos)
- 2004 - Riskaverse (Cornelio Velasquez)
- 2003 - Dimitrova (Jerry Bailey)
- 2002 - Kazzia (Jorge Chavez)
- 2001 - Lailani (Jerry Bailey)
- 2000 - Colstar (Jean-Luc Samyn)
- 1999 - Soaring Softly (Jerry Bailey)
- 1998 - Auntie Mame (John Velazquez)
- 1997 - Yashmak (Corey Nakatani)
- 1996 - Chelsey Flower (Robbie Davis)
- 1995 - Northern Emerald (Ramon Perez)
- 1994 - Dahlia's Dreamer (Jorge Chavez)
- 1993 - Far Out Beast (Jean-Luc Samyn)
- 1992 - Christiecat ((Jean-Luc Samyn)
- 1991 - Lady Shirl (Richard Migliore (jockey)|Richard Migliore]])
- 1990 - Laugh and Be Merry (Herb McCauley)
- 1989 - River Memories (Pat Day)
- 1988 - Gaily Gaily (Julie Krone)
- 1987 - Slew's Exceller (Jose Santos)
- 1986 - Scoot (Willie Shoemaker)
- 1985 - Dismasted (Jean-Luc Samyn)
- 1984 - Rossard ((Laffit Pincay, Jr.)
- 1983 - First Approach (Jorge Velasquez)
- 1982 - Trevita (Ruben Hernandez)
- 1981 - Rokeby Rose (Jeffrey Fell)
- 1980 - Just A Game (Donald Brumfield)
- 1979 - Pearl Necklace (Willie Shoemaker)
- 1978 - Waya (Angel Cordero, Jr.)
