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Ack Ack Handicap (Hollywood Park)

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Inaugurated
  
2001

Distance
  
7 ⁄2 furlongs

Website
  
www.hollywoodpark.com

Surface
  
Cushion Track

Location
  
Hollywood Park Racetrack Inglewood, California, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

The Ack Ack Handicap is a Grade III race for Thoroughbred horses run at Hollywood Park in June.

Open to horses aged three and up, the Ack Ack is set at a distance of 7 12 furlongs and offers a purse of $100,000. It was raced on dirt since its inaugural running in 2001 until 2007 after the new synthetic Cushion Track had been installed.

The race is named for the great Ack Ack, inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Horse of the Year in 1971, as well as ranking number 44 in the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century.

This race was run as a stake in 2001.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:27.15 - Joey Franco (2003)
  • References

    Ack Ack Handicap (Hollywood Park) Wikipedia