Pan American Stakes
The Pan American Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of March at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. Raced on turf over a distance of one and a half miles, the event is open to horses four years of age and older.
A Grade III race since 2006, the Pan American Handicap was rated a GII event from 1990 through 2005 prior to which it had been a Grade I event since 1983. Inaugurated in 1962 as a race competed over a distance of one and one eighth miles, it was changed to its present one and a half miles in 1965. In 2009, due to heavy rain, this race was run on turf and at the shorter distance of 12 furlongs to 10.