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Hollywood Juvenile Championship Stakes

Hollywood Juvenile Championship
Grade III race
Location Hollywood Park Racetrack
Inglewood, California, United States
Inaugurated 1938
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.hollywoodpark.com
Race information
Distance Six furlong sprint
Surface Cushion Track synthetic dirt
Track left-handed
Qualification two-year-olds

The Hollywood Juvenile Championship Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in early July at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. Open to two-year-old horses, the Grade III event is contested on synthetic over a distance of six furlongs. Prior to 2007, the race was contested on dirt.

Its first winner was the filly, Unerring, American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly in 1939. Noted past winners include Tomy Lee (1958), Affirmed (1977), Desert Wine (1982), Althea, (1983), and Squirtle Squirt (2000).

The 2005 winner, What A Song, holds the World Record [all breeds] for 2F in 20.60 seconds.


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