Brooklyn Handicap

Brooklyn Handicap

Horseraces infobox
class = Grade II
horse race = Brooklyn Handicap


caption = "The Picket" winning the 1904 Brooklyn Handicap
location = Belmont Park
Elmont, New York, USA
inaugurated = 1887
race type = Thoroughbred - Flat racing
website = [http://www.nyra.com/belmont/stakes/Brooklyn.html Brooklyn Handicap - NYRA]
distance = 1 1/2 miles (12 furlongs)
track = Dirt, Left-handed
qualification = Three-year-olds and up
weight = Weight-For-Age
purse = $150,000-added
bonuses = The Brooklyn Handicap is an annual American race for thoroughbred horses first held at Gravesend Race Track on Coney Island, New York in 1887. It is currently held at Belmont Park on Long Island. The race is the second part of what is sometimes referred to as the New York Handicap Triple series of races. It is preceded by the Metropolitan Handicap and followed by the Suburban Handicap.

Four horse have won the Handicap Triple:
* Whisk Broom II (1913)
* Tom Fool (1953)
* Kelso (1961)
* Fit to Fight (1984)

At one time the Brooklyn Handicap was one of the top attractions on the New York racing cicuit, drawing some of the best Thoroughbreds. It currently is a Grade II event open to three-year-olds and up willing to race the one and one-eighth miles on the dirt. Offering a purse of $200,000, and usually a spring event, it began to race in the fall due to the Grade I Woodward Stakes being moved to Saratoga Race Course. Because of its fall running, the Brooklyn was raced as a Breeders' Cup race series event during the 2006 and 2007 Belmont fall meet. However, in 2008 it will run the day before the Belmont Stakes and will return to a mile and a half.

The Brooklyn Handicap has been raced at:
*Gravesend Race Track : 1887-1910
*Not run 1911-1912 due to New York State ban on parimutuel betting
*Old Aqueduct Racetrack : 1914-1944, 1946-1955
*Jamaica Racetrack : 1956, 1958-1959
*Aqueduct Racetrack : 1960-1974, 1976
*Belmont Park : 1957, 1975, 1977 to present

Since inception, the race has been contested at a variety of distances:
* 1 mile, 1 furlong : 1915-1939, 1994-2007
* 1³/16 miles : 1956-1959, 1972-1974
* 1¼ miles : 1887-1914, 1940-1955, 1960-1971, 1975-1976
* 1⅜ miles : 1991-1993
* 1½ miles : 1977-1990, 2008 to present

Winners of the Brooklyn Handicap

* Mi Selecto won the 1990 race but was disqualified and set back to second.


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