Top Flight Handicap
| Grade II race | |
|---|---|
| Top Flight Handicap | |
| Location | Aqueduct Racetrack Queens, New York, United States |
| Inaugurated | 1940 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
| Website | Aqueduct Racetrack at NYRA |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1 mile (8 furlongs) |
| Track | Dirt, left-handed |
| Qualification | Fillies & Mares, 3-years-old & up |
| Weight | Assigned |
| Purse | $150,000 |
The Top Flight Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. The Grade II event is run in late November and is open to fillies and mares, age three and older. It is contested over a distance of one mile on the dirt and currently offers a purse of $150,000.
The Top Flight Handicap was run at Belmont Park at a mile and a sixteenth prior to 1961. From 1961 to 1993, it was run at a mile and an eighth.
In its 72nd running in 2011, the race in named for Top Flight, ranked in the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century at #66. Top Flight was never beaten by a member of her own sex.
[edit] Records
Speed record: (at current distance of 1 mile)
- 1:34.96 - Educated Risk (1994)
Most wins:
- 2 - Amerigo Lady (1968, 1969)
- 2 - Shuvee (1970, 1971)
Most wins by a jockey:
- 6 - Jerry Bailey (1990, 1993, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005)
Most wins by a trainer:
- 3 - Hirsch Jacobs (1956, 1965, 1967)
- 3 - J. Elliott Burch (1959, 1968, 1969)
- 3 - H. Allen Jerkens (1973, 1985, 1997)
- 3 - C. R. McGaughey III (1994, 2001, 2004)
- 3 - John C. Kimmel (1995, 1996, 1998)
Most wins by an owner:
- 3 - Ethel D. Jacobs (1956, 1965, 1967)
- 3 - Rokeby Stable (1968, 1969, 1993)
