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Vanity Mile

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Inaugurated
  
1940

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
1,609 m

Website
  
www.santaanita.com

Track
  
left-handed

Purse
  
400,000 USD (2016)

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

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Race replay 2016 vanity mile featuring beholder


The Beholder Mile (formerly the Vanity Invitational Handicap) is an American Thoroughbred horse race once run annually in June at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California but due to that track's closure is now (from 2014) run at Santa Anita Park.

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Open by invitation to fillies and mares aged three years and up, the Grade I stakes race was run at a distance of one and one-eighth miles. It was raced on dirt since its inaugural running in 1940 until 2007 after the new synthetic Cushion Track had been installed.

In 2016 it was announced that the race would be renamed the Vanity Mile and the distance reduced accordingly. In 2017 it was announced that the race would be renamed after the Champion Mare Beholder.

The race has been contested at various distances:

  • 1 mile - 1940; 2016
  •  1 1⁄16 miles - 1941, 1944–1949, 1951–1953;
  •  1 1⁄8 miles - 1950, 1954–1985, 1988–present;
  •  1 1⁄4 miles - 1986–1987.

    • Vanity mile gr i saturday june 4 2016


    Records

    Time record:

  • 1:46.20 for  1 1⁄8 miles - Princess Rooney (1984)

    • Most wins:

  • 3 - Zenyatta (2008, 2009, 2010)

    • References

    Vanity Mile Wikipedia
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