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Hawthorne Handicap

{{Horseraces infobox

|class = Discontinued Grade 3 stakes

|horse race = Hawthorne Handicap

|image =

|caption =

|location = Hollywood Park Racetrack
Inglewood, California

|inaugurated = 1974

|race type = Thoroughbred - Flat racing

|website =

|distance = 1-1/16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

|track = Cushion Track, left-handed

|qualification = Fillies & Mares,
3-years-old & up

|weight = Assigned

|purse = $100,000

|bonuses =

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The Hawthorne Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in May from 1974 thru 2008 at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. The race was open to fillies and mares age three and older and regularly drew from the West Coast's top female runners. {{cite web|url=https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Stakes&stkid=850 |title=Hawthorne Handicap (G3) |publisher=Equibase Co LLC |date=2021-11-17 |accessdate=2021-06-01}}

The Hawthorne Handicap was raced on three different surfaces.

Historical notes

The inaugural running of the Hawthorne Handicap took place on May 25, 1974 and was won by Tallahto. Owned by Elizabeth Keck and bred by her husband Howard, Tallahto would win eight stakes races for her owner of which three were Grade 1 events and two were Grade 2 stakes. {{cite web|url= https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/108084243/ |title= Pac Quick scores in Bashford Manor – Hollywood results |publisher=The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), page 8|date=1974-05-26

|accessdate=2021-11-20}}

In 2001, Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron won his fifth consecutive edition of the Hawthorne Handicap aboard Printemps.{{cite web|url= https://apnews.com/article/b33fd64332da64b206ee9b1e83e8d4d7 |title= Printemps Wins at Hollywood Park |publisher= Associated Press |date=2001-05-06 |accessdate=2021-11-17}} That feat tied McCarron with the Hollywood Park record for most consecutive wins of a single race set in the Los Angeles Handicap in 1974 by Don Pierce.{{cite web|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-27-sp-insider27-story.html |title= A McCarron Six-Pack? |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2002-04-27 |accessdate=2021-11-21}}

Hall of Fame jockeys Laffit Pincay Jr. and Chris McCarron each won the Hawthorne Handicap eight times. Their combined total of sixteen wins equals half of all the Hawthorne Handicap editions ever run.

In 1989 and 1990 Bayakoa won back-to-back editions of the Hawthorne. Both times, she would go on to win the Breeders' Cup Distaff and be voted the Eclipse Award as the American Champion Older Female Horse. {{cite web|title=Event By Year|url=http://www.breederscup.com/history/event-year|website=Breederscup.com|accessdate=2012-06-02}} {{cite web|url=https://www.ntra.com/eclipse-awards/ |title=Eclipse Awards |publisher=NTRA |date=2021-11-20 |accessdate=2021-11-20}}

The final edition of the Hawthorne Handicap took place on May 4, 2008 and was won by Tough Tiz's Sis owned by Karl Watson & Paul Weitman and ridden by Aaron Gryder.{{cite web|url=https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/newsletter-archive-2008/ |title=Sunday, Hollywood Park – Hawthorne H. |publisher=Thoroughbred Daily News (TDN), page 7 |date=2008-05-05 |accessdate=2018-09-16}}

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:32.80 @ 1 mile: Bayakoa (1989)
  • 1:40.60 @ 1-1/16 miles on turf: Country Queen (1980)
  • 1:41.84 @ 1-1/16 miles on dirt: Tough Tiz's Sis (2008)

Most wins:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Most wins by an owner:

Winners

class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:90%"
style="width:30px" | Year

! style="width:110px" | Winner

! style="width:20px" | Age

! style="width:110px" | Jockey

! style="width:120px" | Trainer

! Owner

! style="width:35px" | Dist.
(Miles)

! style="width:25px" | Time

! style="width:25px" | Purse $

! style="width:25px" | Gr.

align=center|2008

|Tough Tiz's Sis

|align=center|4

|Aaron Gryder

|Bob Baffert

|Karl Watson & Paul Weitman

|1-1/16 m

|1:41.84

|$100,000

|align=center|G3

align=center|2007

|River Savage

|align=center|5

|Omar Berrio

|Antonio "A.C." Avila

|L-Bo Racing (Shawn Turner et al.) & Monte Pyle

|1-1/16 m

|1:44.08

|$100,000

|align=center|G3

align=center|2006

|Star Parade

|align=center|7

|Martin Pedroza

|Darrell Vienna

|Gary A. Tanaka

|1-1/16 m

|1:42.26

|$100,000

|align=center|G3

align=center|2005

|Hollywood Story

|align=center|4

|Victor Espinoza

|John Shirreffs

|George Krikorian

|1-1/16 m

|1:42.42

|$100,000

|align=center|G3

align=center|2004

|Summer Wind Dancer

|align=center|4

|Victor Espinoza

|Jeff Mullins

|Richard & Yvette Wira & Linda Vetter

|1-1/16 m

|1:41.56

|$100,000

|align=center|G3

align=center|2003

|Keys To The Heart

|align=center|4

|Jose Valdivia Jr.

|Beau Greely

|Thomas Nichols

|1-1/16 m

|1:42.97

|$100,000

|align=center|G3

align=center|2002

|Queen of Wilshire

|align=center|6

|Pat Valenzuela

|Darrell Vienna

|E. A. Ranches (Ernie & Lisa Auerbach)

|1-1/16 m

|1:43.16

|$100,000

|align=center|G3

align=center|2001

|Printemps

|align=center|4

|Chris McCarron

|Ron McAnally

|Amerman Racing Stables (John & Jerry Amerman)

|1-1/16 m

|1:43.21

|$150,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|2000

|Riboletta

|align=center|5

|Chris McCarron

|Eduardo Inda

|Aaron & Marie Jones

|1-1/16 m

|1:42.33

|$150,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1999

|Victory Stripes

|align=center|5

|Chris McCarron

|Ron McAnally

|Sidney & Jenny Craig

|1-1/16 m

|1:41.73

|$150,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1998

|I Ain't Bluffing

|align=center|4

|Chris McCarron

|Ronald W. Ellis

|Siegel family

|1-1/16 m

|1:41.49

|$100,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1997

|Twice The Vice

|align=center|6

|Chris McCarron

|Ronald W. Ellis

|Martin & Pam Wygod

|1-1/16 m

|1:42.72

|$100,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1996

|Borodislew

|align=center|6

|Corey Nakatani

|John Shirreffs

|505 Farms

|1-1/16 m

|1:41.28

|$100,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1995

|Paseana

|align=center|8

|Chris McCarron

|Ron McAnally

|Sidney & Jenny Craig

|1-1/16 m

|1:42.40

|$100,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1994

|Golden Klair

|align=center|4

|Kent Desormeaux

|Darrell Vienna

|No Problem Stable & Sido Stable

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:41.41

|$100,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1993

|Freedom Cry

|align=center|5

|Alex Solis

|Gary F. Jones

|Hi Card Ranch (Keith & Barbara Card)

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:41.12

|$100,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1992

|Sacramentada

|align=center|6

|Kent Desormeaux

|Richard Mandella

|Randall D. Hubbard

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:43.04

|$100,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1991

|Brought To Mind

|align=center|4

|Pat Valenzuela

|Ron McAnally

|Tadahiro Hotehama

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:41.50

|$100,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1990

|Bayakoa

|align=center|6

|Laffit Pincay Jr.

|Ron McAnally

|Frank & Janis Whitham

|align=center|1 m

|align=center|1:34.00

|$100,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1989

|Bayakoa

|align=center|5

|Laffit Pincay Jr.

|Ron McAnally

|Frank & Janis Whitham

|align=center|1 m

|align=center|1:32.80

|$100,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1988

|Integra

|align=center|4

|Gary Stevens

|Henry M. Moreno

|George Aubin (Lessee)

|align=center|1 m

|align=center|1:36.00

|$75,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1987

|Seldom Seen Sue

|align=center|4

|Chris McCarron

|Gary F. Jones

|Frederick & Howard Drakos

|align=center|1 m

|align=center|1:33.60

|$75,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1986

|Dontstop Themusic

|align=center|6

|Laffit Pincay Jr.

|Randy Winick

|Albert R. & Dana N. Broccoli

|align=center|1 m

|align=center|1:35.40

|$75,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1985

|Adored

|align=center|5

|Laffit Pincay Jr.

|Laz Barrera

|Ethel D. Jacobs (Lessee)

|align=center|1 m

|align=center|1:34.80

|$75,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1984

|Adored

|align=center|4

|Fernando Toro

|Laz Barrera

|Ethel D. Jacobs (Lessee)

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:41.80

|$60,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1983

|Marisma

|align=center|5

|Kenneth D. Black

|Lee J. Rossi

|Carl Joseph Maggio

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:44.80

|$50,000

|align=center|G2

align=center|1982

|Weber City Miss

|align=center|5

|Sandy Hawley

|Howard M. Tesher

|H. Joseph Allen

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:42.40

|$50,000

|align=center|G3

align=center|1981

|Save Wild Life

|align=center|4

|Chris McCarron

|Howard M. Tesher

|H. Joseph Allen

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:42.80

|$60,000

|align=center|L/R

align=center|1980

|Country Queen

|align=center|5

|Laffit Pincay Jr.

|Randy Winick

|Maribel G. Blum & Gainesway Farm

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:40.60

|$50,000

|align=center|L/R

align=center|1979

|Country Queen

|align=center|4

|Laffit Pincay Jr.

|Randy Winick

|Maribel G. Blum, George Sarant, Arnold N. Winick

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:41.20

|$40,000

|align=center|L/R

align=center|1978

|Sensational

|align=center|4

|Laffit Pincay Jr.

|Laz Barrera

|Mill House Stable

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:41.80

|$40,000

|align=center|L/R

align=center|1977

|Cascapedia

|align=center|4

|Sandy Hawley

|Gordon C. Campbell

|Bernard J. Ridder

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:40.80

|$40,000

|align=center|L/R

align=center|1976-1

|Swingtime

|align=center|4

|Bill Shoemaker

|Charles E. Whittingham

|Mary Jones Bradley & Charles E. Whittingham

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:41.80

|$30,000

|align=center|L/R

align=center|1976-2

|Mia Amore

|align=center|4

|Fernando Toro

|Jaime Villagomez

|John Valpredo

|align=center|1-1/16 m

|align=center|1:41.80

|$30,000

|align=center|L/R

align=center|1975

|Tizna

|align=center|6

|Jerry Lambert

|Henry M. Moreno

|Nile Financial Corp. (Victor Zemborain)

|align=center|7 f

|align=center|1:20.60

|$30,000

|align=center|UGS

align=center|1974

|Tallahto

|align=center|4

|Laffit Pincay Jr.

|Charles E. Whittingham

|Elizabeth A. Keck

|align=center|7 f

|align=center|1:20.70

|$30,000

|align=center|UGS

References

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Category:Discontinued horse races in the United States

Category:Horse races in California

Category:Hollywood Park Racetrack

Category:Mile category horse races for fillies and mares

Category:Horse races established in 1974

Category:Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2009