The Vanity Invitational Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race once run annually in June at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California but due to that track's closure is now (from 2014) run at Santa Anita Park.Open by invitation to fillies and mares aged three years and up, the Grade I stakes race is run at a distance of one and one-eighth miles and currently offers a purse of $300,000.It was raced on dirt since its inaugural running in 1940 until 2007 after the new synthetic Cushion Track had been installed.The race has been contested at various distances:1 mile - 1940;1 1/16 miles - 1941, 1944–1949, 1951–1953;1⅛ miles - 1950, 1954–1985, 1988–present;1¼ miles - 1986–1987.