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Mervyn Leroy Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1980

Surface
  
Dirt

Website
  
www.hollywoodpark.com

Purse
  
150,000 USD

Location
  
Hollywood Park Racetrack Inglewood, California, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

Rail trip impressive in winning the mervyn leroy handicap gii


The Mervyn LeRoy Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the second week of May at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. A Grade II event open to horses, age three and up, it is contested over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on Cushion Track synthetic dirt, the race

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Named for the American film director, Mervyn LeRoy who was a racing enthusiast and one of the track's founders, the Mervyn LeRoy Handicap carries a purse of $150,000 and is a prep to the Hollywood Gold Cup.

Elevated to a Grade I event in 1988, it was downgraded to its present Grade II status in 1991.

The 34th running of the mervyn leroy handicap gii 150 000 guaranteed


Records

Speed record:

  •  1 1⁄16 mile - 1:40.20 - Ruhlmann (1989)
  • 1 mile - 1:32.80 - Precisionist (1985)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Surf Cat (2006, 2008)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Laffit Pincay, Jr. (1986, 1987, 1989, 2002)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 4 - Robert J. Frankel (1982, 1983, 1991, 1993)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Jerry Moss (1983, 1989)
  • 2 - Rosendo G. Parra (2003, 2004)
  • 2 - Aase Headley & Marsha Naify (2006, 2008)

    • References

    Mervyn Leroy Handicap Wikipedia
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