- Next Move Handicap
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Grade III race Next Move Handicap Location Aqueduct Racetrack
Ozone Park, Queens, New York,
United StatesInaugurated 1975 Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing Website Aqueduct Racetrack at the NYRA Race information Distance 1⅛ miles (9 furlongs) Track Dirt, left-handed Qualification Fillies & Mares, three-years-old & up Weight Assigned Purse $100,000 The Next Move Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually near the end of March at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. A Grade III event open to fillies and Mares, age three and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of one mile and one furlong. It offers a purse of $100,000.
Inaugurated in 1975, the race was restricted to three-year-old fillies at one mile in 1975. It was contested at a mile and three sixteenths from 1984 through 1994.
The race is named in honor of the filly Next Move who was the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly of 1950 and the American Co-Champion Older Female Horse in 1952.
Since inception, the Next Move Handicap has been contested at various distances:
- 1 mile : 1975
- 1⅛ miles : 1976-1983, 1995-present
- 1³/16 miles : 1984-1994
On December 4, 2009 the New York Racing Association announced that the Next Move Handicap was being placed on hiatus. [1]
Records
Speed record: (at current distance of 1⅛ miles)
- 1:48.96 - Diggins (1999)
Most wins:
- 2 - One Sum (1978, 1979)
Most wins by a jockey:
- 4 - Ruben Hernandez (1976, 1978, 1979, 1981)
- 4 - Mike Luzzi (1994, 1995, 2007, 2009)
Most wins by a trainer:
- 4 - Todd A. Pletcher (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007)
Most wins by an owner:
- 2 - Charles T. Wilson Jr. (1978, 1979)
- 2 - Nelson Bunker Hunt (1980, 1984)
- 2 - H. Joseph Allen (1981, 1982)
- 2 - Edward P. Evans (1998, 2002)
- 2 - Dogwood Stable (2003, 2004)
Winners
Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer Owner Time 2010 no race 2009 Weathered 4 Mike Luzzi Karl Grusmark Chevalier Stable 1:52.44 2008 Wow Me Free 4 Alan Garcia Kiaran McLaughlin Edward A. Seltzer 1:50.86 2007 Indian Vale 5 Mike Luzzi Todd A. Pletcher Eugene Melnyk 1:50.51 2006 Fleet Indian 5 Jose Santos Todd A. Pletcher Paul Saylor 1:49.32 2005 Daydreaming 4 Edgar Prado Claude McGaughey III Phipps Stable 1:50.77 2004 Smok'n Frolic 5 Richard Migliore Todd A. Pletcher Dogwood Stable 1:51.55 2003 Smok'n Frolic 4 John Velazquez Todd A. Pletcher Dogwood Stable 1:49.11 2002 With Ability 4 Javier Castellano Mark A. Hennig Edward P. Evans 1:49.88 2001 Atelier 4 Edgar Prado Claude McGaughey III Robert N. Clay 1:50.60 2000 Biogio's Rose 6 Norberto Arroyo, Jr. Robert Ribaudo J. & A. Nastasi 1:51.32 1999 Diggins 5 Jose Espinoza Mark A. Hennig December Hill Farm 1:48.96 1998 Panama Canal 4 Shaun Bridgmohan Mark A. Hennig Edward P. Evans 1:51.37 1997 Full and Fancy 5 Richard Migliore John C. Kimmel Red Oak Stables 1:51.12 1996 Madame Adolphe 4 Filiberto Leon Susan Duncan Leroy Close 1:51.39 1995 Restored Hope 4 Mike Luzzi Bruce N. Levine John Valentino 1:52.26 1994 Groovy Feeling 5 Mike Luzzi Peter Ferriola Robert Donaldson 1:59.79 1993 Low Tolerance 4 Mike Smith John M. Veitch Darby Dan Farm 1:55.93 1992 Spy Leader Lady 4 Mike Smith Gasper S. Moschera Joques Farm 2:00.20 1991 Buy The Firm 5 Herb McCauley Carlos F. Martin Morven Stud Farm 1:56.40 1990 Bold Wench 5 Jorge Velasquez Jose A. Martin Jack R. Maro 1:58.40 1989 Rose's Cantina 5 Eddie Maple Leroy Jolley, Jr. Carl Icahn 1:59.80 1988 Triple Wow 4 Richard Migliore Roger Attfield Kinghaven Farms 1:57.60 1987 Tricky Squaw 4 Chris Antley D. Wayne Lukas Eugene V. Klein 1:58.40 1986 Cherry Jubilee 4 Carlos Marquez, Jr. H. Allen Jerkens Charles M. Armstrong 1:56.00 1985 Flip's Pleasure 5 Jean-Luc Samyn H. Allen Jerkens Hobeau Farm 1:58.20 1984 Adept 5 Michael Venezia Frank I. Wright Nelson Bunker Hunt 1:57.80 1983 Chieftan's Command 4 Alfredo Smith, Jr. John Parisella Theodore M. Sabarese 1:53.20 1982 Andover Way 4 Jorge Velasquez Howard M. Tesher H. Joseph Allen 1:50.20 1981 Plankton 5 Ruben Hernandez Howard M. Tesher H. Joseph Allen 1:53.40 1980 Water Lily 4 Marco Castaneda not found Nelson Bunker Hunt 1:51.00 1979 One Sum 5 Ruben Hernandez Luis Barrera Charles T. Wilson Jr. 1:53.00 1978 One Sum 4 Ruben Hernandez Luis Barrera Charles T. Wilson Jr. 1:52.80 1977 Forty Nine Sunsets 4 Jacinto Vasquez Frank Gomez Janet Gomez 1:51.00 1976 Yes Dear Maggy 4 Ruben Hernandez Robert S. DuBois John C. Oxley 1:49.40 1975 My Juliet 3 Darrel McHargue Eugene Euster George Weasel, Jr. 1:35.60 References
Categories:- Mile category horse races for fillies and mares
- Graded stakes races in the United States
- Recurring sporting events established in 1975
- Aqueduct Racetrack
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