A Gleam Handicap

The A Gleam Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid July at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. Open to fillies and mares, age three and older, it is contested on Cushion Track synthetic dirt over a distance of seven furlongs. Inaugurated in 1941 as the Sequoia Handicap until 1979 when it was changed to the A Gleam Handicap in honor of Calumet Farm's filly, A Gleam, whose five stakes wins in 1952 is the co-record for most stakes race wins in a single meet at Hollywood Park. A Gleam was voted Hollywood Park's 1952 "Horse of the Meet."

A Gleam Handicap

The A Gleam Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid July at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. Open to fillies and mares, age three and older, it is contested on Cushion Track synthetic dirt over a distance of seven furlongs. Inaugurated in 1941 as the Sequoia Handicap until 1979 when it was changed to the A Gleam Handicap in honor of Calumet Farm's filly, A Gleam, whose five stakes wins in 1952 is the co-record for most stakes race wins in a single meet at Hollywood Park. A Gleam was voted Hollywood Park's 1952 "Horse of the Meet."