Honeymoon Handicap

Honeymoon Handicap
Grade IIT race
Location Santa Anita Park
Arcadia, California, USA
Inaugurated 1952
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website Santa Anita Park
Race information
Distance  1 1⁄8 miles (9 furlongs)
Surface Turf
Track Left-handed
Qualification Three-year-old fillies
Weight Assigned
Purse $200,000 (in 2014)

The Honeymoon Handicap is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race run annually in the Spring at Santa Anita Park (it ran at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California until that track closed in 2013). The race is open to three-year-old fillies, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the turf. The Honeymoon is a major leading prep race for the Grade I American Oaks run during the first part of July.

Inaugurated in 1952 as the Sea Breeze Stakes, the name was changed to the Honeymoon Stakes in 1956 then the Honeymoon Handicap in 1975. It honors the outstanding California bred mare, Honeymoon.

Since inception, the race has been contested at a variety of distances:

Winners since 1997

Year
 Winner
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Time
2016 Cheekaboo Mike E. Smith Peter Eurton Alesia/Burns/Ciaglia Racing 1:46.86
2015 Spanish Queen Brice Blanc Richard Baltas Nakkashian/Bederian/Kamberian 1:47.24
2014 Nashoba's Gold Joe Talamo Carla Gaines Warren B. Williamson 1:48.61
2013 Sarach Martin Garcia Richard E. Mandella Wertheimer & Frere 1:48.73
2012 My Gi Gi Rafael Bejarano Peter Eurton Conner/DeBruycker/Jacobsen 1:49.22
2011 Sarah's Secret Rafael Bejarano Kathy Walsh Joan Hadley Thoroughbreds/Kirkwoods 1:50.04
2010 Evening Jewel Victor Espinoza James M. Cassidy Braly Family Trust 1:48.87
2009 Well Monied Joel Rosario Howard L. Zucker Carl T. Grether 1:48.35
2008 Misty Ocean Joel Rosario Jerry Hollendorfer Jim Plemmons 1:47.56
2007 Valbenny Alex Solis Paddy Gallagher A racing partnership 1:48.17
2006 Attima Victor Espinoza Julio C. Canani Fanticola/Scardino 1:47.36
2005 Three Degrees Gary Stevens Paddy Gallagher Harlequin Ranches et al. 1:46.84
2004 Lovely Rafaela Victor Espinoza Paulo Lobo TNT Stud 1:49.96
2003 Quero Quero Tyler Baze Paulo Lobo Old Friends Inc. 1:49.34
2002 Megahertz Pat Valenzuela Robert J. Frankel Michael Bello 1:51.97
2001 Innit Chris McCarron Ron McAnally Richard Duchossois 2:01.28
2000 Clasy Cara Iggy Puglisi Douglas F. O'Neill D. Stathatos/J. Zamora 1:48.05
1999 Sweet Ludy Gary Stevens Jenine Sahadi Team Valor 1:48.05
1998 Country Garden Kent Desormeaux Walter Greenman Ed McGrath 1:48.74
1997 Famous Digger Brice Blanc Barry Abrams Let It Ride Stable 1:47.68

Earlier winners

  • 1996 - Antespend
  • 1995 - Auriette
  • 1994 - Work The Crowd
  • 1993‡- Likeable Style
  • 1992 - Pacific Squall
  • 1991 - Masake
  • 1990 - Materco
  • 1989 - Hot Option
  • 1988 - Do So
  • 1987 - Pen Bal Lady
  • 1986 - An Empress
  • 1985 - Sharp Ascent
  • 1984 - Vagabond Gal
  • 1983 - Stage Door Canteen
  • 1982 - Castilla
  • 1981 - Amber Ever
  • 1980 - Lady Roberta
  • 1979 - Variety Queen
  • 1978 - Country Queen
  • 1977 - Joyous Ways
  • 1976 - Cascapedia
  • 1975 - Katonka
  • 1974 - Bedknob
  • 1973 - Meilleur
  • 1972 - Le Cle
  • 1971 - Turkish Trousers
  • 1970 - Street Dancer
  • 1969 - Marjorie's Theme
  • 1968 - Miss Ribot
  • 1967 - Spinning Around
  • 1966 - April Dawn
  • 1965 - Rullahline
  • 1964 - Gim Mah
  • 1963 - Molly O'Malley
  • 1962 - Refanute
  • 1961 - Bushel-N-Peck
  • 1960 - Solid Thought
  • 1959 - Cellyar
  • 1958 - Foreverett
  • 1957 - Great Pride
  • 1956 - Triple Jay
  • 1955 - Madam Jet
  • 1954 - Miz Clementine
  • 1953 - Fleet Khal
  • 1952 - Tonga

‡ In 1993, the race was run off the turf, but retained its GIII status.

References

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