Los Angeles Handicap

Updated on Dec 07, 2024

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Inaugurated 1938 Distance 6 furlongs		Website www.santaanita.com
Location Santa Anita ParkArcadia, California, USA(relocated from the now closed Hollywood Park RacetrackInglewood, 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.

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)

† In 1996 there was a dead heat for first.

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