Berkeley Handicap  The Berkeley Handicap is a Grade III race for thoroughbred horses held on the synthetic surface 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.