Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The Santa Barbara Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia California. A Grade III event open to fillies and mares age four and older it is contested of turf over a distance of one and a quarter miles.Inaugurated in 1935 through 1941 it was a race for two-year-olds. In 1952 and again in 1954 it was restricted to three-year-old California-foaled fillies and in 1953 for three-year-old California foals of either sex.