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Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1935

Surface
  
Dirt

Website
  
Santa Anita Park

Purse
  
500,000 USD (2016)

Location
  
Santa Anita Park Arcadia, California, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (9 furlongs)

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The Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid March at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. An invitation race for fillies and mares age four and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of one and one-eighths miles.

Contents

Inaugurated in 1935, the race was open to all horses age three and older until 1938 when it was restricted to fillies and mares.

Since inception, the Santa Margarita Handicap has been raced at various distances:

  • 7 furlongs : 1935-1936
  • 6 furlongs : 1937
  • 8.5 furlongs ( 1 1⁄16 miles) 1938-1941, 1945–1948, 1953-1954.
  • 9 furlongs ( 1 1⁄8 miles) : 1949-1952, 1955 present

    • There was no race from 1942 through 1944 as a result of World War II.

    The Santa Margarita Handicap was run in two divisions in 1964. The first time it was run as an invitational event was in 1968.

    Records

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

  • 1:47.00 - Lady's Secret (1986)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Our Betters (1956, 1957)
  • 2 - Curious Clover (1964, 1965)
  • 2 - Tizna - (1974, 1975)
  • 2 - Bayakoa (1989, 1990)
  • 2 - Paseana (1992, 1994)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 6 - Bill Shoemaker (1951, 1952, 1954, 1966, 1972, 1979)
  • 6 - Laffit Pincay, Jr. (1967, 1971, 1973, 1981, 1982, 1989)
  • 6 - Chris McCarron (1980, 1985, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 6 - Ron McAnally (1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 3 - C. V. Whitney (1947, 1959, 1960)
  • 3 - Ethel D. Jacobs (1961, 1966, 1984)
  • 3 - William Haggin Perry (1964, 1968, 1969)

    • References

    Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap Wikipedia
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