Los Angeles Handicap

Los Angeles Handicap
Grade III race
LocationSanta Anita Park
Arcadia, California, USA
(relocated from the now closed Hollywood Park Racetrack
Inglewood, California,
United States)
Inaugurated1938
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewww.santaanita.com
Race information
Distance6 furlongs
SurfaceCushion Track synthetic dirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-years-old
WeightAssigned
Purse$100,000 (since 2006)[1]

The Los Angeles Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California during the spring racing season. It was previously run at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California), which closed in 2013. A Grade III sprint race run on dirt over a distance of six furlongs, it is open to horses aged three and older.

The race was not run in 2018. From 2007 to 2013, it was run on (Cushion Track synthetic dirt. For 2015 only, the race was run at Los Alamitos Racetrack and shortened to 5+12 furlongs due to the track dimensions. Prior to 1979, the race was run at a distance of seven furlongs.

The 1968 race was run in two divisions.

  1. ^ "Los Angeles Stakes Profile". Equibase. Retrieved 16 December 2018.