San Luis Obispo Handicap
Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer Owner Time
2011 Champ Pegasus 5 Joel Rosario Richard Mandella Diamond A Racing Corporation and Arturo Vargas 2:31.55
2010 Bourbon Bay 4 Rafael Bejarano Neil Drysdale David and Jill Heerensperger 2:28.89
2009 Spring House 7 Alex Solis Julio C. Canani Randall D. Hubbard 2:27.26
2008 Spring House 6 Garrett Gomez Julio C. Canani Randall D. Hubbard 2:27.21
2007 Obrigado 4 Garrett Gomez Neil D. Drysdale G. Seidler & P. Vegso 2:27.21
2006 Atlando 5 Martin Pedroza Darrell Vienna Gary A. Tanaka 2:23.95
2005 License To Run 5 Patrick Valenzuela Robert J. Frankel TNT Stud 2:28.72
2004 Puerto Banus 5 Victor Espinoza Kristin Mulhall Noctis Stable et al 2:28.00
2003 The Tin Man 5 Mike E. Smith Richard Mandella Aury & Ralph Todd 2:31.22
2002 Nazirali 5 Brice Blanc Julio C. Canani Michael House 2:26.09
2001 Persianlux 5 Tyler Baze Wallace Dollase Horizon Stable et al 2:27.70
2000 Dark Moondancer 5 Chris McCarron Ron McAnally Charles J. Cella 2:39.61
1999 Kessem Power 7 Gary Stevens Mike R. Mitchell Robert J. Baron 2:28.02
1998 Bienvenido 5 Chris McCarron Ron McAnally Sidney Craig 2:29.34
1997 Shanawi 5 Brice Blanc Jenine Sahadi Ghanem & Sloan 2:24.51
1996 Windsharp 5 Ed Delahoussaye Wallace Dollase Richard & Martha Stephen 2:30.33
1995 Square Cut 6 Chris Antley Joseph Devereux E. W. Racing Stable 2:26.04
1994 Fanmore 6 Kent Desormeaux Robert J. Frankel Juddmonte Farms 2:27.03
1993 Kotashaan 5 Kent Desormeaux Richard Mandella La Presle Farm 2:27.64
1992 Quest for Fame 5 Gary Stevens Robert J. Frankel Juddmonte Farms 2:28.79
Winners
The San Luis Obispo Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. The race is open to horses age four and up, willing to race one and one-half miles on the turf. A Grade II event, it offers a purse of $150,000. Inaugurated as the Washington's Birthday Handicap in 1950, it was run on dirt until 1954 when it became a turf race. For 1973, 1980 and 2005, the race was transferred to the dirt track. There was no race from 1963 through 1967 but returned in 1968 as the San Luis Obispo Handicap, named for the city of San Luis Obispo further up the Central Coast of California from Santa Anita Park. It was started on the turf course's backstretch, instead of the hillside, in 1990, 1992 and 1993. Since inception it has been contested at various distances:
The San Luis Obispo Handicap was run in two divisions in 1968, 1972, and 1974.