The El Conejo Handicap was an American
Thoroughbred horse race held annually on January 1 at
Santa Anita Park in
Arcadia, California
Arcadia is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located about northeast of downtown Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley and at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. It contains a series of adjacent parks consisting of th ...
. A
Grade III sprint race open to horses age four and older, it is contested on
Pro-Ride synthetic dirt over a distance of five and a half
furlongs.
In 2000, the El Conejo Handicap was run in January and again in December and in 1984 it was raced in two divisions. There was no race run in 1987.
Records
Speed record:
* 1:01.27 - In Summation (2008)
Most wins:
* 2 - To B. Or Not (1981, 1982)
* 2 -
Kona Gold
Kona Gold (March 19, 1994 – September 25, 2009) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.
Kona Gold was foaled at Carlos Perez's Twilite Farm outside LaGrange, Kentucky. He was sold as a yearling for $35,000 at the 1995 Keeneland Sept ...
(1999, 2003)
* 2 - Freespool (2000 (2x))
* 2 - In Summation (2008, 2009)
Most wins by a
jockey
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:
* 7 -
Chris McCarron (1982, 1985, 1990, 1993, 1995, 2000 (2x)
Most wins by a
trainer:
* 2 -
Ronald W. Ellis (1981, 1982)
* 2 -
Robert J. Frankel
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(1984, 1998)
* 2 -
Bob Baffert (1994, 1997)
* 2 -
Bruce Headley
Bruce Edmund Headley (14 February 1934 – 15 January 2021) was a Thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.
Biography
Involved with horse racing since his teens, Headley worked as an exercise rider from 1949 until taking out his trainers license in 1 ...
(1999, 2003)
* 2 -
Ted H. West (2000 (2x))
* 2 -
D. Wayne Lukas
Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935 in Antigo, Wisconsin) is an American horse trainer and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. He has won twenty Breeders' Cup races, received five Eclipse Awards for his accomplishments, and his horses ha ...
(2002, 2006)
* 2 -
Douglas F. O'Neill (2005, 2007)
* 2 -
Christophe Clement (2008, 2009)
Most wins by an owner:
* 2 - Bohm Stables, Inc. (1981, 1982)
* 2 - Irwin & Andrew Molasky et al. (1999, 2003)
* 2 - Desperado Stables, Inc. (2000 (2x))
* 2 - Waterford Stable (2008, 2009
Winners
Notes
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References
The 2009 El Conejo Handicap at the NTRA
Horse races in California
Santa Anita Park
Flat horse races for four-year-olds
Discontinued horse races in the United States