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Los Angeles Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1938

Distance
  
6 furlongs

Website
  
www.santaanita.com

Location
  
Santa Anita Park Arcadia, California, USA (relocated from the now closed Hollywood Park Racetrack Inglewood, California, United States)

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Surface
  
Cushion Track synthetic dirt

The Los Angeles Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in May at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California (relocated in 2104 from Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California). A Grade III sprint race run on dirt (Cushion Track synthetic dirt since 2007) over a distance of six furlongs, it is open to horses aged three and older.

Contents

The 1968 race was run in two divisions.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:07.55 - Street Boss (2008) (at current distance of 6 furlongs)
  • 1:19.80 - Triple Bend (1972) (stakes, track, and world record (at previous distance of 7 furlongs)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Native Diver (1965, 1967)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 6 - Laffit Pincay, Jr. (1968, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1989, 1997)
  • 5 - Donald Pierce (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 5 - John W. Sadler (1986, 1988, 2003, 2009, 2010)
  • 4 - Buster Millerick (1965, 1967, 1968, 1983)
  • 4 - Bruce Headley (1999, 2002, 2008, 2014)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Austin C. Taylor (1938, 1956)
  • 2 - Fred W. Hooper (1962, 1977)
  • 2 - M/M Louis K. Shapiro (1965, 1967)
  • 2 - Gary & Cecil Barber (2009, 2010)

    • Winners

  • † In 1996 there was a dead heat for first.

    • References

    Los Angeles Handicap Wikipedia
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