The Precisionist Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.
A Grade III event open to horses, age three and up, it was contested over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on Cushion Track synthetic dirt.
Racing Hall of Fame horse, Precisionist who won this race in 1985 in which he set a Hollywood Park track record for the then one mile distance.
The original race was named for the American film director, Mervyn LeRoy who was a racing enthusiast and one of the track's founders.
The Mervyn LeRoy Handicap carried a purse of $150,000 and was a prep to the Hollywood Gold Cup.