Iroquois Handicap

The Iroquois Handicap run at Belmont Park on Long Island, New York in the fall of the year, is a 7 furlong race for Thoroughbred fillies and mares, aged 3 and up, that are New York-bred. It offers a purse of $125,000.

Set at a mile and an eighth before 1981, at a mile from 1981 to 1984, a mile and 70 yards from 1985 to 1987, at six furlongs from 1989 to 1993, it is now at six furlongs. In 1996, it ran at Aqueduct Racetrack.

The Iroquois Handicap is named for the Iroquois Indian Nation that still inhabits some of the region that now includes central New York State. It might well also be named for the first American horse to win the English Epsom Derby, Iroquois, son of Leamington who also fathered Longfellow.

Past winners

* 2007 : Karakorum Starlet (Garrett Gomez)
* 2006 : No Reason - (Garrett Gomez)
* 2005 : Seeking the Ante - (Mike Luzzi)
* 2004 : Sugar Punch - (Edgar Prado)
* 2003 : Princess Dixie - (Mike Luzzi)
* 2002 : Dat You Miz Blue - (Jose Santos)
* 2001 : Maddie May - (John Velazquez)
* 2000 : Biogio's Rose - (Norberto Arroyo, Jr.)
* 1999 : Jena Jena - (Jerry Bailey)
* 1998 : Key Cents - (John Velazquez)
* 1997 : Your Gorgeous - (Jose Santos)
* 1996 : Lottsa Talc - (Frank Alvarado)
* 1995 : Lottsa Talc - (Diane Nelson)
* 1994 : Lottsa Talc - (Frank Alvarado)
* 1993 : Princess Sybill - (Mike E. Smith)
* 1992 : Carli's Command - (Richard Migliore)
* 1991 : Northern Willy - (Julio Pezula)
* 1990 : Jack Betta Be Rite - (Dennis Saul
* 1989 : Grecian Flight - Craig Perret)
* 1988 : Joe's Tammie - (Eddie Maple)
* 1987 : Anniron - (Robbie Davis)
* 1986 : Anniron - (Robert W. Cook)
* 1985 : Flip's Pleasure - (Jean-Luc Samyn)
* 1984 : Flip's Pleasure - (Angel Cordero, Jr.)
* 1983 : Chaldea - (Jean-Luc Samyn)
* 1982 : Belle Borne - (Angel Cordero, Jr.)
* 1981 : Josies Anchor - (George Martens)
* 1980 : Screenland - (Jacinto Vasquez)
* 1979 : Wandering Cloud - (Cash Asmussen)