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Vanity Mile

Vanity Invitational Handicap
Grade I race
Location Santa Anita Park
Arcadia, California, USA
Moved from the now closed Hollywood Park Racetrack
Inglewood, California, United States
Inaugurated 1940
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.santaanita.com
Race information
Distance 1 mile (8 furlongs)
Surface Dirt
Track left-handed
Qualification Fillies & Mares, Three-years-old & Up
Weight Assigned
Purse $400,000 (2016)

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:

Time record:

Most wins:


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