Beholder Mile Stakes

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Beholder Mile Stakes
Grade I race
Location Santa Anita Park
Arcadia, California, USA
Inaugurated1940 (as Vanity Handicap)
Race type ThoroughbredFlat racing
Website www.santaanita.com
Race information
Distance1 mile (8 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationFillies & Mares, Three-years-old & Up
WeightAllowance
Purse$500,000 (2022) [1]

The Beholder Mile Stakes is a Grade I American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares aged three and up. It is run over a distance of one mile on the dirt each year in March at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.

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History

The event was inaugurated in 1940 as the Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California over the current distance of one mile.

In 1968 Gamely won carrying a record weight for a winner of 131 pounds in the race. Her owner William Haggin Perry had the three placegetters in the race which carried a record high stakes amount for the fillies and mares of $79,650. [2]

Originally an open handicap for fillies and mares aged three years and up, in 1987 it was changed to an invitational handicap for selected fillies and mares. Over the next three decades, the race switched between open handicap and invitational handicap formats. Following the closure of Hollywood Park, the race moved to Santa Anita Park in 2014. In that same year, the event was changed from the handicap format to a weight-for-age race with allowances for horses who had not recently won a graded stakes race. [3]

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. [4] [1]

The race is normally run on dirt, except between 2007 and 2013 when Hollywood Park used a synthetic Cushion Track surface. [1]

The race was not run in 1942 and 1943 due to wartime restrictions.

Distance

The race has since been contested at various distances:

Records

Time record:

Most wins:

Winners since 1972

Year
Winner
Age
Weight
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
Distance
(miles)
Purse
Beholder Mile Stakes
2024Sweet Azteca4122 Flavien Prat Michael McCarthy Pamela Ziebarth1:36.401$500,000
2023A Mo Reay4122 Flavien Prat Brad H. Cox Hunter Valley Farm1:36.251$500,000
2022As Time Goes By5122 Flavien Prat Bob Baffert Michael B. Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier and Derrick Smith1:37.551$500,000
2021 Swiss Skydiver 4124 Robby Albarado Kenneth McPeek Peter J. Callahan1:36.181$300,000
2020 Ce Ce 4121 Victor Espinoza Michael W. McCarthy Bo Hirsch LLC1:37.331$400,000
2019Secret Spice4121Geovanni FrancoRichard BaltasLittle Red Feather Racing1:38.391$400,000
2018 Unique Bella 4121 Mike E. Smith Jerry Hollendorfer Don Alberto Stable 1:35.601$400,000
2017 Stellar Wind 5126 Victor Espinoza John W. Sadler Hronis Racing LLC1:36.141$400,000
Vanity Mile Stakes
2016 Beholder 6123 Gary Stevens Richard E. Mandella Spendthrift Farm 1:35.971$400,000
Vanity Stakes
2015 My Sweet Addiction 5119 Mike E. Smith Martin F. Jones Pamela C. Ziebarth1:49.731+18$300,000
2014Iotapa4119 Joe Talamo John W. Sadler Hronis Racing1:47.641+18$300,000
Vanity Handicap / Vanity Invitational Handicap
2013Byrama (GB)4117 Gary Stevens Simon Callaghan Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners1:51.401+18$250,000
2012 Love Theway Youare 4115 Garrett Gomez Myung Kwon Cho Myung Kwon Cho1:51.101+18$250,000
2011 Blind Luck 4123 Garrett Gomez Jerry Hollendorfer Hollendorfer/Dedomenico/Carver/Abruzzo1:50.891+18$250,000
2010 Zenyatta 6129 Mike E. Smith John Shirreffs Jerry & Ann Moss 1:49.011+18$250,000
2009 Zenyatta 5129 Mike E. Smith John Shirreffs Jerry & Ann Moss 1:48.151+18$300,000
2008 Zenyatta 4124 Mike E. Smith John Shirreffs Jerry & Ann Moss 1:49.511+18$300,000
2007 Nashoba's Key 4118 Joe Talamo Carla Gaines Warren B. Williamson1:48.831+18$300,000
2006 Hollywood Story 5118 David R. Flores John Shirreffs George Krikorian1:48.551+18$300,000
2005 Splendid Blended 3120 Jerry D. Bailey Neil D. Drysdale Peter Vegso Racing 1:49.331+18$300,000
2004 Victory Encounter 4116 Alex Solis John W. Sadler Tom Mankiewicz 1:48.281+18$250,000
2003 Azeri 5127 Mike E. Smith Laura de Seroux A. Paulson Living Trust 1:48.481+18$250,000
2002 Azeri 4125 Mike E. Smith Laura de Seroux A. Paulson Living Trust 1:48.881+18$250,000
2001 Gourmet Girl 6119 Gary Stevens Pico Perdomo Gary A. Tanaka 1:49.211+18$250,000
2000 Riboletta 5123 Chris McCarron Eduardo Inda Aaron & Marie Jones 1:48.541+18$300,000
1999 Manistique 4122 Chris McCarron John Shirreffs 505 Farms 1:48.061+18$400,000
1998 Escena 5124 Jerry D. Bailey William I. Mott Allen E. Paulson 1:48.001+18$350,000
1997 Twice the Vice 5121 Chris McCarron Ronald W. Ellis Martin & Pam Wygod 1:46.401+18$400,000
1996 Jewel Princess 4120 Corey Nakatani Wallace Dollase Richard & Martha Stephen1:47.001+18$250,000
1995 Private Persuasion 4114 Gary Stevens Dan Hendricks Martin & Pam Wygod 1:48.201+18$300,000
1994 Potridee 5114 Alex Solis Ron McAnally Leslie Grimm1:48.081+18$300,000
1993 Re Toss 6115 Eddie Delahoussaye Henry M. Moreno Arthur & Larry Risdon1:47.921+18$300,000
1992 Paseana 5127 Chris McCarron Ron McAnally Sidney H. Craig 1:48.061+18$300,000
1991 Brought To Mind 4120 Pat Valenzuela Ron McAnally Tadahiro Hotehama1:48.501+18$200,000
1990 Gorgeous 4124 Eddie Delahoussaye Neil D. Drysdale Robert N. Clay 1:48.201+18$200,000
1989 Bayakoa 5125 Laffit Pincay, Jr. Ron McAnally Janis & Frank Whitham1:47.201+18$200,000
1988 Annoconnor 4114 Corey Black John Gosden Morton Fink & Roy Gottlieb1:49.201+18$200,000
1987 Infinidad 5113 Corey Black Charles E. Whittingham Arthur B. Hancock III 2:00.601+14$200,000
1986 Magnificent Lindy 4116 Chris McCarron Neil Drysdale Paula L. Tucker2:02.001+14$200,000
1985 Dontstop Themusic 5118 Ángel Cordero Jr. Randy Winick Mr. & Mrs. Albert Broccoli 1:47.801+18$200,000
1984 Princess Rooney 4120 Eddie Delahoussaye Neil Drysdale Paula L. Tucker1:46.201+18$200,000
1983 A Kiss for Luck 4114 Chris McCarron Jerry Fanning Paula L. Tucker1:49.201+18$200,000
1982 Sangue 4120 Bill Shoemaker Henry M. Moreno R. Charlene Parks1:48.001+18$200,000
1981 Track Robbery 5120 Patrick Valenzuela Robert L. Wheeler Summa Stable 1:47.001+18$200,000
1980 It's In The Air 4120 Laffit Pincay, Jr. Laz Barrera Harbor View Farm 1:47.001+18$150,000
1979 It's In The Air 3113 Laffit Pincay, Jr. Laz Barrera Harbor View Farm 1:47.401+18$125,000
1978 Afifa 4113 Bill Shoemaker Gene ClevelandSwiftsure Stable1:46.401+18$125,000
1977Cascapedia4129 Sandy Hawley Gordon C. Campbell Bernard J. Ridder 1:47.601+18$100,000
1976 Miss Toshiba 4120 Fernando Toro Thomas A. Pratt Robert Sangster 1:48.001+18$100,000
1975 Dulcia 6118 Bill Shoemaker Charles E. Whittingham Helen G. Stollery 1:47.401+18
1974 Tallahto 4126 Laffit Pincay, Jr. Charles E. Whittingham Elizabeth A. Keck 1:47.001+18
1973 Convenience 5121 John L. Rotz Willard L. Proctor Glen Hill Farm 1:47.801+18
1972 Convenience 4121 Jerry Lambert Willard L. Proctor Glen Hill Farm 1:47.801+18
  Dirt  All Weather Track (Cushion Track)
  At Santa Anita Park  At Hollywood Park Racetrack

Earlier winners

  • 1971 : Hi Q.
  • 1970 : Commissary
  • 1969 : Desert Law
  • 1968 : Gamely [2]
  • 1967 : Desert Love
  • 1966 : Khal Ireland
  • 1965 : Jalousie
  • 1964 : Star Maggie
  • 1963 : Table Mate
  • 1962 : Linita
  • 1961 : Perizade
  • 1960 : Silver Spoon
  • † 1959 : Zevs Joy / 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 : Race not held
  • ‡1942 : Race not held
  • 1941 : Painted Veil
  • 1940 : Etolia II

Notes:
† Run in two divisions in 1959.
‡ Race not held due to World War II

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