Berkeley Handicap

Berkeley Handicap
Grade III race
Location Golden Gate Fields
Berkeley, California
Inaugurated 1948
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.goldengatefields.com
Race information
Distance 1 1/16 Miles (8.5 Furlongs)
Track Synthetic, left-handed
Qualification Three-year-olds & up
Weight Assigned
Purse $100,000

The Berkeley Handicap is a Grade III race for thoroughbred horses held on the dirt at Golden Gate Fields in Albany, California, United States. Highlighting the Labor Day weekend, it's a race for three-year-olds and up of either gender and run at a distance of one and one sixteenth mile. The Berkeley was the richest race of the fall meeting, offering a purse of US$100,000.

In 2009, it was run on May 25 as part of the spring program.

Restless Con holds the track record at this distance of 1:39:50 on June 14, 1991.

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