Bel Air Handicap

The Bel Air Handicap was a Thoroughbred horse race run in mid July at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California.

Open to horses age three and older, it was contested on dirt at a distance of a mile and a sixteenth.

In its final year it was a Grade III event [1] offering a purse of U.S$.$100,000.

First run in 1939, the Bel Air Handicap was not run again until 1968.

In 1997, winner Crafty Friend equaled the Hollywood Park track record for a mile and a sixteenth with a time of 1:40 flat.