True North Handicap

True North Handicap

The True North Handicap is a race for Thoroughbred horses. The race is a Grade II event offers a purse of $200,000 and is open to three-year-olds and up who are willing to race six furlongs (1,207 m) on the Belmont Park dirt track.

The True North is named for the winner of the 1945 Fall Highweight Handicap.

Past winners

* 2008 - Benny the Bull (Edgar Prado)
* 2007 - Will He Shine (Edgar Prado)
* 2006 - Anew
* 2005 - Woke Up Dreamin
* 2004 - Speightstown
* 2003 - Shake You Down
* 2002 - Explicit
* 2001 - Say Florida Sandy


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