Vanity Mile

The Vanity Mile (formerly the Vanity Invitational Handicap) is an American Thoroughbred horse race once run annually in June at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California but due to that track's closure is now (from 2014) run at Santa Anita Park.

Open by invitation to fillies and mares aged three years and up, the Grade I stakes race was run at a distance of one and one-eighth miles. It was raced on dirt since its inaugural running in 1940 until 2007 after the new synthetic Cushion Track had been installed.

In 2016 it was announced that the race would be renamed the Vanity Mile and the distance reduced accordingly.

The race has been contested at various distances:

• 1 mile - 1940; 2016
•  1 ¹⁄₁₆ miles - 1941, 1944–1949, 1951–1953;
•  1 ¹⁄₈ miles - 1950, 1954–1985, 1988–present;
•  1 ¹⁄₄ miles - 1986–1987.

Records

Time record:

• 1:46.20 for  1 ¹⁄₈ miles - Princess Rooney (1984)

Most wins:

• 3 - Zenyatta (2008, 2009, 2010)

Winners of the Vanity Invitational Handicap since 1972

Earlier winners

References

• The Vanity Invitational Handicap at Pedigree Query
• The Vanity Invitational Handicap at the NTRA