The PEBBLES is named after Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum's champion grass mare PEBBLES. This chestnut mare won the 1985 Breeders' Cup Turf, at Aqueduct, as a four-year-old. Also at the age of four, she was voted the Champion Grass Mare in the United States, and Champion Older Mare and Champion Miler in England.
Run at one mile in 1993 and 1994; a mile and a sixteenth from 1995 to 1997; a mile and an eighth from 1998 to the present.