Grade III race | |
Location | Santa Anita Park Arcadia, California, United States |
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Inaugurated | 1980 |
Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
Website | www |
Race information | |
Distance | 1+1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs) |
Surface | Dirt |
Track | left-handed |
Qualification | Three-years-old & up |
Weight | Assigned |
Purse | $100,000 |
The Precisionist Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. A Grade III event open to horses, age three and up, it was contested over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on Cushion Track synthetic dirt. The race was named for the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame horse, Precisionist who won this race in 1985 in which he set a Hollywood Park track record for the then one mile distance. [1]
The race was run as the Mervyn Leroy Handicap at Hollywood Park Racetrack from inception in 1980 through 2013 when that racetrack closed. The original race was named for the American film director, Mervyn LeRoy who was a racing enthusiast and one of the track's founders. The Mervyn LeRoy Handicap carried a purse of $150,000 and was a prep to the Hollywood Gold Cup.
Elevated to a Grade I event in 1988, it was downgraded to Grade II status in 1991 then to Grade III in 2014.
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Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Dist. (Miles) | Time | Grade | Win $ |
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2017 | Collected | 4 | Martin Garcia | Bob Baffert | Speedway Stables | 1-1/16 | 1:41.52 | III | $100,000 |
2016 | Race not held | ||||||||
2015 | Catch a Flight | 5 | Flavien Prat | Richard E. Mandella | Haras Santa Maria de Araras | 1-1/16 | 1:42.22 | III | $100,000 |
2014 | Fury Kapcori | 4 | Rafael Bejarano | Jerry Hollendorfer | Awtrey, Hollendorfer & Todaro | 1-1/16 | 1:42.11 | III | $100,000 |
Mervyn LeRoy Handicap | |||||||||
2013 | Liaison | 6 | Victor Espinoza | John W. Sadler | C R K Stable | 1-1/16 | 1:42.79 | II | $150,000 |
2012 | Morning Line | 5 | Joseph Talamo | John Shirreffs | Farish/Dixiana/Thoroughbred Legends Racing Stable | 1-1/16 | 1:42.42 | II | $150,000 |
2011 | Crown of Thorns | 6 | Tyler Baze | Richard Mandella | Spendthrift Farm | 1-1/16 | 1:42.73 | II | $150,000 |
2010 | Rail Trip | 5 | Rafael Bejarano | Ron Ellis | Jay Em Ess Stable (Siegel family) | 1-1/16 | 1:42.37 | II | $150,000 |
2009 | Ball Four | 8 | Joe Talamo | Patrick Biancone | Flying Zee Stable (Carl Lizza) | 1-1/16 | 1:41.58 | II | $150,000 |
2008 | Surf Cat | 6 | Alex Solis | Bruce Headley | Aase Headley & Marsha Naify | 1-1/16 | 1:41.13 | II | $150,000 |
2007 | Molengao | 6 | Victor Espinoza | Paulo Lobo | Stud TNT | 1-1/16 | 1:42.86 | II | $150,000 |
2006 | Surf Cat | 4 | Alex Solis | Bruce Headley | Aase Headley & Marsha Naify | 1-1/16 | 1:40.65 | II | $150,000 |
2005 | Ace Blue | 5 | David Flores | Paulo Lobo | Eternamente Rio Stud | 1-1/16 | 1:41.45 | II | $150,000 |
2004 | Even The Score | 6 | David Flores | Vladimir Cerin | Rosendo G. Parra | 1-1/16 | 1:40.81 | II | $150,000 |
2003 | Total Impact | 5 | Mike E. Smith | Laura de Seroux | Rosendo G. Parra | 1-1/16 | 1:40.88 | II | $150,000 |
2002 | Sky Jack | 6 | Laffit Pincay, Jr. | Douglas F. O'Neill | Rene & Margie Lambert | 1-1/16 | 1:41.36 | II | $150,000 |
2001 | Futural | 5 | Chris McCarron | Craig Dollase | Jess Miller & Jack Weitz | 1-1/16 | 1:42.02 | II | $150,000 |
2000 | Out Of Mind | 5 | Eddie Delahoussaye | Richard E. Mandella | Sierra Thoroughbreds | 1-1/16 | 1:41.82 | II | $150,000 |
1999 | Budroyale | 6 | Garrett Gomez | Ted H. West | Jeffrey Sengara | 1-1/16 | 1:42.12 | II | $150,000 |
1998 | Wild Wonder | 4 | Eddie Delahoussaye | Greg Gilchrist | VHW Stables | 1-1/16 | 1:40.92 | II | $100,000 |
1997 | Hesabull | 4 | Goncalino Almeida | Mike Chambers | Ron Judy | 1-1/16 | 1:41.30 | II | $100,000 |
1996 | Siphon | 5 | David Flores | Richard E. Mandella | Linneo Eduardo de Paula Machado | 1-1/16 | 1:40.44 | II | $100,000 |
1995 | Tossofthecoin | 5 | Corey Nakatani | Ron McAnally | Sidney Craig | 1-1/16 | 1:40.70 | II | $100,000 |
1994 | Del Mar Dennis | 4 | Sal Gonzalez, Jr. | J. Paco Gonzalez | Trudy McCaffery & John Toffan | 1-1/16 | 1:40.48 | II | $155,000 |
1993 | Marquetry | 6 | Kent Desormeaux | Robert J. Frankel | Morley Engelson & R. J. Frankel | 1-1/8 | 1:49.10 | II | $155,000 |
1992 | Another Review | 4 | Kent Desormeaux | Chris Speckert | Thomas Mellon Evans | 1-1/16 | 1:41.38 | II | $150,000 |
1991 | Louis Cyphre | 5 | José A. Santos | Robert J. Frankel | Edmund A. Gann | 1-1/16 | 1:40.80 | I | $185,000 |
1990 | Super May | 4 | Robbie Davis | Richard E. Mandella | Jack Kent Cooke | 1-1/16 | 1:40.80 | I | $200,000 |
1989 | Ruhlmann | 4 | Laffit Pincay, Jr. | Charles E. Whittingham | Jerry Moss | 1-1/16 | 1:40.20 | I | $200,000 |
1988 | Judge Angelucci | 5 | Eddie Delahoussaye | Charles E. Whittingham | Olin B. Gentry | 1-1/16 | 1:40.80 | I | $200,000 |
1987 | Zabaleta | 4 | Laffit Pincay, Jr. | John Gosden | Michael Riordan | 1 mile | 1:34.80 | II | $200,000 |
1986 | Skywalker | 4 | Laffit Pincay, Jr. | Michael C. Whittingham | Oak Cliff Stable (Thomas P. Tatham & partners) | 1 mile | 1:34.80 | II | $200,000 |
1985 | Precisionist | 4 | Chris McCarron | L. Ross Fenstermaker | Fred W. Hooper | 1 mile | 1:32.80 | II | $200,000 |
1984 | Sari's Dreamer | 5 | Rafael Meza | Melvin F. Stute | Carl Grinstead & Ben Rochelle | 1 mile | 1:34.20 | II | $160,000 |
1983 | Fighting Fit | 4 | Bill Shoemaker | Robert J. Frankel | Jerry Moss | 1 mile | 1:35.80 | II | $100,000 |
1982 | Mehmet | 4 | Sandy Hawley | Robert J. Frankel | A. J. Chlad et al. | 1 mile | 1:34.60 | II | $100,000 |
1981 | Eleven Stitches | 4 | Sandy Hawley | Donn Luby | Morey & Claudia Mirkin | 1 mile | 1:36.40 | $160,000 | |
1980 | Spectacular Bid | 4 | Bill Shoemaker | Bud Delp | Hawksworth Farm (Harry & Teresa Meyerhoff) | 1 mile | 1:40.40 | $200,000 | |
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