What is the Vanity Handicap horse race?
The Vanity Handicap is a Grade I, nine-furlong (1 1/18-mile) $250,000 race for Thoroughbred mares (age three and up), held annually on the cushion track at Hollywood Park race course in Inglewood, California. The Vanity Handicap is considered a key race for mares on the path to the Breeders’ Cup , to be held at Churchill Downs (in Louisville, Kentucky) in November 2010. The 69th running of the Vanity Handicap has a post time of 4:37 p.m. in California (7:37 p.m. ET) on Sunday, June 13, 2010. Key contenders for the 2010 Vanity Handicap include Zenyatta, her stablemate Zardana (who beat 2009 NTRA Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra in the New Orleans Ladies horse race in March), and St Trinians. (Zardana came in fifth in the April 30th La Troienne at Churchill Downs, placing behind first-place Unrivaled Belle and second-place Rachel Alexandra, among others.) Mike Smith to ride Zenyatta in the 2010 Vanity Handicap. Jockey Mike Smith, who won the 2010 Belmont Stakes (aboard Drosselmeyer) on
