The Apple Blossom Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run each year in early April during the Racing Festival of the South at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The Grade I race is open to Fillies and Mares, four years old and up. A premier event for distaffers in the Spring, it is run over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt and currently offers a purse of $600,000, though these conditions are subject to change, as noted below. * 1-1/8: 2010 * 1-1/16: 1958, 1980–2009, 2011–present * 6 furlongs: 1963, 1968–1974 * 1 mile 70 yards: 1975–1979