Argonaut Handicap

The Argonaut Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race first run in 1940 at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. A one-mile race on dirt, it was open to horses age three and older.

In 1956, Swaps won this race while setting a new world record for one mile with time of 1:33 1/5.{{cite magazine |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102135946/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1069822/index.htm |title=Focus On the Deed |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1956/06/18/focus-on-the-deed/ |date=June 18, 1956 |archive-date=January 2, 2013 |url-status=live |magazine=Sports Illustrated}}

It was last run in 1978.