{{Infobox horseraces | class = Listed | horse race = Shared Belief Stakes | image = | caption = | location = Del Mar Racetrack<br>Del Mar, California, United States | inaugurated = 1973 | race type = Thoroughbred - Flat racing | website = www.dmtc.com | distance = 1 mile (8 furlongs) | surface = Dirt | track = left-handed | qualification = Three-years-old | weight = Assigned | purse = $100,000<ref name=MediaGuide>{{cite web|title=Del Mar Media Guide|url=https://www.dmtc.com/media/media-guide|website=dmtc.com|accessdate=26 August 2016|page=59}}</ref> | bonuses = }} The '''Shared Belief Stakes''' (formerly the '''El Cajon Stakes''') is a Listed American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the last week of August or the first week of September at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. Open to three-year-old horses, the event is contested at a distance of one mile (8 furlongs) on the dirt. The purse is currently $100,000.<ref name=MediaGuide />
The race is named for champion Shared Belief, whose major wins included the 2014 Pacific Classic at Del Mar.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jim Rome Remembers Shared Belief|url=http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/214524/jim-rome-remembers-shared-belief|website=bloodhorse.com|accessdate=26 August 2016}}</ref> It was previously named for the city of El Cajon, California.
Inaugurated in 1973, the race was run as a restricted overnight stakes until 2004. The distance was set at one and one-eighth miles in 1973 and 1974, then reduced to a mile and a sixteenth from 1975 through 1996 after which it was set at its current distance of one mile. From 2008 to 2015, the race was run on Polytrack synthetic dirt surface – all other renewals have been on a natural dirt surface.
The race was not run in 1994 and 2001.
==Past winners== {{div col|colwidth=25em}} * 2025 - Citizen Bull * 2024 - Muth * 2023 - Tahoe Sunrise * 2022 - Go Joe Won * 2021 - Medina Spirit * 2020 - Thousand Words * 2019 - Improbable * 2018 - Tatters To Riches * 2017 - Battle of Midway * 2016 - Accelerate * 2015 - Gimme Da Lute * 2014 - Red Outlaw * 2013 - Holy Lute * 2012 - Fed Biz * 2011 - Celestic Night * 2010 - Haimish Way * 2009 - Grazen * 2008 - Slews Tiznow * 2007 - Rush with Thunder * 2006 - Cindago * 2005 - Follow the Rainbow * 2004 - Perfect Moon * 2003 - Excess Summer * 2002 - Joey Franco * 2001 - RACE NOT RUN * 2000 - Spicy Stuff * 1999 - National Saint * 1998 - Opine * 1997 - Best Star * 1996 - Ready to Order * 1995 - Turbulent Dancer * 1994 - RACE NOT RUN * 1993 - Pleasant Tango * 1992 - Slerp * 1991 - Letthebighossroll (California Champion sprinter) * 1990 - Asia * 1989 - Bruho * 1988 - Old Exclusive * 1987 - Sebrof * 1986 - Tasso (1985 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt) * 1985 - Nostalgias Star * 1984 - Bunker * 1983 - Mamaison * 1982 - Craelius * 1981 - Island Whirl * 1980 - Mighty Return * 1979 - Shamgo * 1978 - Go West Young Man (Multiple Grade I winner) * 1977 - Kulak * 1976 - Wood Green * 1975 - Crumbs * 1974 - Within Hail * 1973 - Quick Bluff {{div col end}}
==References== {{reflist}} * [http://www.dmtc.com/horsemen/nomforms/23 Nomination form for the Shared Belief, with entry requirements]
Category:Del Mar Racetrack Category:Horse races in California Category:Listed stakes races in the United States Category:Restricted stakes races in the United States Category:Flat horse races for three-year-olds Category:Horse races established in 1973 Category:1973 establishments in California