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Horse race in Del Mar, California, US Horse race
Cabrillo Handicap
Discontinued Grade 3 stakes race
LocationDel Mar Racetrack,
Del Mar, California
Inaugurated1966
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance1 1/8 miles (9 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds and up
Purse$300,000

The Cabrillo Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California, from 1966 through 1990. Open to horses age three and older, the Grade 3 event was raced on dirt. Contested at various distances, in its final years it was set at a mile and one-eighth (nine furlongs)

The race was won by such top horses as Cougar II, Kennedy Road, Proud Birdie, Gato Del Sol, Ferdinand, and Precisionist.

The Cabrillo Handicap was run in two divisions in 1966.

Winners

  • 1990 - Miserden
  • 1989 - Lively One
  • 1988 - Precisionist
  • 1987 - Ferdinand
  • 1986 - Hopeful Word
  • 1985 - Last Command
  • 1984 - Video Kid
  • 1983 - Gato Del Sol
  • 1982 - Caterman
  • 1981 - Tahitian King
  • 1980 - Teddy Doon
  • 1979 - Quick Turnover
  • 1978 - Vic's Magic
  • 1977 - Proud Birdie
  • 1976 - Branford Court
  • 1975 - Against The Snow
  • 1974 - War Heim
  • 1973 - Kennedy Road
  • 1972 - Imaginative
  • 1971 - Kobuk King
  • 1970 - Cougar II
  • 1969 - Balsamo
  • 1968 - Pinjara
  • 1967 - Bern Book
  • 1966 - Adopted
  • 1966 - Old Mose

References

  1. New York Times article August 23, 1970
  2. August 20, 1973
  3. Los Angeles Times - August 7, 1977
  4. Boston Globe - August 25, 1983
  5. Los Angeles Times – August 30, 1987
  6. Oxnard, California Press-Courier - August 29, 1988


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