Happy Issue (1940–1964) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who broke the track record for a mile and a quarter on dirt to become the first female horse to win the prestigious Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California.
[1] Happy Issue was owned and trained by Charles H. "Frenchy" Pinon who raced her under the nom de course, Happy Stable.
On November 18, 1944 the four-year-old won the most important race to that point in her career with a victory in the Vanity Handicap, a mile and one-eighth race for fillies and mares at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
[2] On December 17 she set a new Hollywood Park track record of 2:01 4/5 for a mile and a quarter on dirt in becoming the first female to ever win the Hollywood Gold Cup.
[3] Frenchy Pinon raced Happy Issue for nine years after which she was retired to broodmare duty.