Tropical Turf Handicap

Tropical Turf Handicap

The Tropical Turf Handicap is a American Grade IIIT Thoroughbred horse race run on the turf course at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, Florida each year.

Open to three-year-old horses and up, it is set at a distance of one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs) and offers a purse of $100,000.

The Tropical Turf is the last of the four $100,000 stakes races on Calder’s “Grand Slam I program.” The My Charmer Handicap is the first, the Three Ring Stakes second, and the Foolish Pleasure Stakes third.

Past winners

* 2007 – Ballast (IRE) (6) (Kent Desormeaux)
* 2006 – Ballast (5)
* 2005 – Silver Tree
* 2004 – Host (John Velazquez)
* 2003 – Political Attack (Rene Douglas)
* 2002 – Krieger (Eibar Coa)
* 2001 – Band Is Passing (Carlos Gonzalez)
* 2000 - Stokosky (Carlos Hernandez)
* 1999 - Hibernian Rhapsody
* 1998 – Unite’s Big Red (Eduardo Nunez)
* 1997 – Sir Cat (race run on the main track due to rain ruined turf course)
* 1996 – Mecke (5) (beating Grindstone, winner of the 1996 Kentucky Derby)
* 1995 – Mecke (4)
* 1994 – Mecke (3)
* 1993 – Carterista (Wigberto Ramos)

External links

* [http://www.calderracecourse.com/ Calder Race Course]


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