Lancashire Oaks
The Lancashire Oaks is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to fillies and mares aged three years or older.It is run at Haydock Park over a distance of 1 mile, 3 furlongs and 175 yards (2,373 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in early July.The earliest recorded version of the race was run at Liverpool in the nineteenth century and was won in 1857 by The Derby winner Blink Bonny.The original venue of the Lancashire Oaks closed in November 1963, and the race resumed at Haydock Park in 1965.The present system of race grading was introduced in 1971, and the event was subsequently given Group 3 status.