Gravesend Handicap

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Gravesend Handicap
Non-graded stakes race
LocationAqueduct Racetrack, Queens, New York, United States
Inaugurated1885
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewww.nyra.com/aqueduct/Stakes/Gravesend.shtml
Race information
Distance6 furlongs
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-years-old & up
WeightAssigned
Purse$100,000 added

The Gravesend Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York late in the year. In its 61st running in December 2017, the Gravesend was downgraded from a Grade III event to ungraded status.[1] This race is for three-year-olds and up and set at a distance of six furlongs. It offers a purse of $100,000 added.

The Gravesend is named in honor of the early American racetrack once sited near Coney Island, Brooklyn. The Gravesend Race Track was closed in 1910.

Prior to 1961, the Gravesend was run at Jamaica Race Course, and once, in 1975, at Belmont Park. In 1962, it was set at seven furlongs.

Past winners

References

  1. ^ Six New Grade I Races for 2009 - bloodhorse.com

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