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Buena Vista Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1988

Distance
  
1 mile (8 furlongs)

Website
  
www.santaanita.com

Surface
  
Turf

Location
  
Santa Anita Park Arcadia, California, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

The Buena Vista Handicap is an annual race for Thoroughbred horses held early in the year at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Open to fillies and mares, age four and up, willing to race one mile (8 furlongs) on the turf, it is a Grade II event.

Run in mid February, the Buena Vista currently offers a purse of $200,000.

The Buena Vista Handicap was run in two divisions in 1992.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:33.33 - Pontchatrain (2014)

    • Most wins:

  • No horse has won this race more than once.

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 4 - Juddmonte Farms (1994, 1997, 2008, 2009)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 5 - Gary Stevens (1996, 2004, 2014, 2015, 2016)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 5 - Robert J. Frankel (1994, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2009)

    • References

    Buena Vista Handicap Wikipedia
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