Vanity Invitational Handicap
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Grade I race | |
Location | Santa Anita Park Arcadia, California, USA Moved from the now closed Hollywood Park Racetrack Inglewood, California, United States |
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Inaugurated | 1940 |
Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
Website | www |
Race information | |
Distance | 1 1⁄8 miles (9 furlongs) |
Surface | Dirt |
Track | left-handed |
Qualification | Fillies & Mares, Three-years-old & Up |
Weight | Assigned |
Purse | $300,000 |
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.
Open by invitation to fillies and mares aged three years and up, the Grade I stakes race is run at a distance of one and one-eighth miles and currently offers a purse of $300,000.
It was raced on dirt since its inaugural running in 1940 until 2007 after the new synthetic Cushion Track had been installed.
The race has been contested at various distances:
- 1 mile - 1940;
- 1 1⁄16 miles - 1941, 1944–1949, 1951–1953;
- 1 1⁄8 miles - 1950, 1954–1985, 1988–present;
- 1 1⁄4 miles - 1986–1987.
Contents
Records
Time record:
- 1:46.20 - Princess Rooney (1984)
Most wins:
- 3 - Zenyatta (2008, 2009, 2010)
Winners of the Vanity Invitational Handicap since 1972
Earlier winners
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- 1971 : Hi Q.
- 1970 : Commissary
- 1969 : Desert Law
- 1968 : Gamely
- 1967 : Desert Love
- 1966 : Khal Ireland
- 1965 : Jalousie
- 1964 : Star Maggie
- 1963 : Table Mate
- 1962 : Linita
- 1961 : Perizade
- 1960 : Silver Spoon
- 1959 : Zevs Joy
- 1959 : Tender Size
- 1958 : Annie-Lu-San
- 1957 : Annie-Lu-San
- 1956 : Mary Machree
- 1955 : Countess Fleet
- 1954 : Bubbley
- 1953 : Fleet Khal
- 1952 : Two Lea
- 1951 : Bewitch
- 1950 : Next Move
- 1949 : Silver Drift
- 1948 : Hemet Squaw
- 1947 : Honeymoon
- 1946 : Be Faithful
- 1945 : Busher
- 1944 : Happy Issue
- 1943 : WW II - No race held
- 1942 : WW II - No race held
- 1941 : Painted Veil
- 1940 : Etolia
* Run in two divisions in 1959.