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Del Mar Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1937

Track
  
Left-handed

Surface
  
Turf

Location
  
Del Mar Racetrack Del Mar, California, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (11 furlongs)

The Del Mar Handicap is an American thoroughbred horse race run each year during the third week of August at the Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. The Grade II race is open to horses, age three and up, willing to race one and three-eighths miles on the Jimmy Durante turf course.

Since inception, the Del Mar Handicap has been contested at various distances:

  •  1 1⁄16 miles : 1937-1948
  •  1 1⁄8 miles : 1949-1969
  • about  1 1⁄4 miles on dirt : 1976-1985
  •  1 3⁄8 miles : 1970-1975, 1986–present

    • The Del Mar Handicap was run in two divisions in 1972.

    In 1969, Figonero won the race in a world record time of 1:46.20 for  1 1⁄8 miles.

    Records

    Speed record: (at current distance of  1 3⁄8 miles)

  • 2:11.14 - Spring House (2008)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Frankly (1948, 1950)
  • 2 - Arrogate (1955, 1956)
  • 2 - How Now (1957, 1960)
  • 2 - Navarone (1992, 1994)
  • 2 - Spring House (2008, 2009)
  • 2 - Big John B (2014, 2015)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 3 - Robert E. Hibbert (1966, 1992, 1994)
  • 3 - Edmund A. Gann (1981, 1993, 2001)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 8 - Bill Shoemaker (1950, 1953, 1954, 1971, 1976, 1982, 1983, 1987)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 7 - Charles Whittingham (1961, 1970, 1971, 1976, 1987, 1989, 1990)

    • References

    Del Mar Handicap Wikipedia
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